Brutus And Mark Antony Research Paper

There are a lot of similarities and differences between Brutus and Mark Antony speeches at Caesar funeral. Both speeches are very convincing and persuasive to the crowd. This essay will be about comparing and contrasting the two speeches. In my opinion I think that Mark Antony’s speech was better and more convincing. In Brutus speech he wants the crowd to forgive him for killing Caesar and make him the new leader of Rome. The first word of Brutus speech is Romans, and later in the speech he says that he loved Caesar but loved Rome more, also in the begging part of the play we found out that he does everything for Rome. The crowd does not want to listen to him and keeping yelling at him, he keeps telling the crowd to be quiet, listen, and be patient. He finally gets the crowd to calm down. He told the crowd that Caesar would have made them his slaves and that Caesar was too ambitious and would have been killed. The crowd reacts to suprised. Brutus tries to have their trust by saying that if they don't agree with him they can kill him. The whole speech Brutus stands above the crowd and does not move much. At the end of the speech the crowd is all for Brutus and wants him to be king.

He brings Caesar body down to crowd and lays it down in front of them. Antony is trying to convince the crowd that killing Caesar was wrong and that they need to avenge his death. His first word of the speech was Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I think he said friends first because he wanted to show that he was a friend of the people and that he is their for them. His whole speech he stood with the crowd and moved around with them and was one of them. The entire speech of Antony was a