The majority of people experience betrayal in their lives. Betrayal can mean to be disloyal or unfaithful. The betrayal of a friend family member or loved one is malicious and can be painful. Examples of betrayal are being cheated on or lied to. The playwright, actor and poet William Shakespeare exemplifies betrayal in one of his most famous plays The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Shakespeare depicts the play in ancient Rome after the defeat of pompey and his sons. Shakespeare exhibits the ultimate betrayal by revealing that Brutus joins a conspiracy to murder Caesar. The writer portrays Brutus as a Roman politician who was once a friend of caesar, while Caesar is portrayed as a Roman general who was asked to be the ruler of rome. Shakespeare depicts the the conspirators to be plotting to kill caesar for they do not see him fit to rule. They succeed in their plan, many were happy about the death of Caesar but not Mark Antony. Mark antony was a friend of Caesar who declared a speech at his funeral attempting to get the Roman audience’s attention. Therefore in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, playwright William Shakespeare uses Mark Antony’s speech to persuade the Roman audience against the conspirators by using …show more content…
continuous repetition, logical appeal and a sarcastic tone in order to reveal Antony’s purpose. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, playwright William Shakespeare uses Mark Antony’s speech to persuade the audience against the conspirators by using continuous repetition.
The playwright uses repetition various times throughout Mark Antony’s speech to grab the audience's attention. Shakespeare reveals his use of repetition by the statement “ Yet Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is a honorable man” (Shakespeare 21-22). Shakespeare uses this rhetorical device to to counteract Brutus’ claim that Caesar is indeed ambitious. Furthermore the playwright also portrays Mark Antony’s loyalty by revealing how he speaks of Caesar during his speech. However, along with the rhetorical device repetition, Shakespeare also uses logical appeal to prove Mark Antony’s
purpose. William Shakespeare portrays logical appeal in the The Tragedy of Julius Caesar to urge the Roman audience against the conspirator. He uses this strategy to convince the audience that Caesar has never done anything to inconvenience them. In order to reveal logical appeal Shakespeare asserts “ you all did love him once not without a cause; what cause withholds you then to mourn for him, O judgement, thou art fled to Brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason” (Shakespeare 30-33). Mark Antony’s devotion to Caesar is revealed when he asks the Roman citizens why they will not mourn for him. The deception of the audience puzzles antony for he believes that Caesar has done so much for him. Hence along with Shakespeare’s use of logical appeal he portrays a sarcastic tone to reveal his true intentions.
What makes a person dishonorable? Dishonorable is defined as bringing shame or disgrace on someone or something. In Julius Caesar Brutus does not stand with his morals when he is asked to help take part in the murder of Caesar. Secondly, Brutus agrees to murder one of his closest friends. Finally, Brutus murders Caesar then goes to kill himself as well so that he does not have to suffer the outcome which makes him even more dishonorable. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Marcus Brutus is not an honorable man because he betrayed his country and his dearest friend.
Throughout his famous speech in the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony continuously propagandizes the crowd using his eloquence. From the very beginning of his speech, Antony is facing a crowd that is already not on his side. His unique elocution allows him to fairly easily brainwash the throng into submitting to his ideas about Julius Caesar’s death. Using rhetorical appeals such as logos and pathos, Mark Antony changes the mob’s mind in a timely manner. He uses plausible and convincing reasoning, rationale, and emotional appeal in order to indoctrinate the multitude of Romans into believing what he has to say. Antony’s exceptional mellifluousness helps him put it all together though, leading to the final product that is his acclaimed speech. Mark Antony possesses phenomenal enunciation and flaunts his rare skill admirably as he dexterously instills his views into the brains of the Romans.
...scene of Caesar; however, Antony never shows at the murder. Also, Antony compares the conspirators to irrational and beastly animals, and he retells the scene of Caesar’s death. Multiple people deceive others in order to manipulate them. Decius inaccurately explains Calphurnia’s dream, and he motivates Caesar to travel to the Capitol; as a result, Caesar dies. In a manipulative oration given by Antony, he manipulates the plebeians; the capricious plebeians decide they want to kill the murderers of Caesar. In the end of the play, Antony claims that Brutus exhibits an honorable man, and he explains that he favors Brutus. Octavius ends the play, and he agrees with Antony’s declaration of the honor of Caesar. Although manipulation frequently never ends in death, people today use manipulation for one’s own advantage: abusively, deceptively, cunningly, and aggressively.
Playwright, William Shakespeare, in the play Julius Caesar, utilizes many instances of rhetorical devices through the actions and speech of Caesar's right-hand man, Mark Antony. In the given excerpt, Antony demonstrates several of those rhetorical devices such as verbal irony, sarcasm, logos, ethos, and pathos which allows him to sway the plebeians. The central purpose of Mark Antony’s funeral speech is to persuade his audience into believing that Caesar had no ill intentions while manipulating the plebeians into starting a rebellion against their new enemies, Brutus and the conspirators.
Shakespeare’s complex play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar contains several tragic heroes; a tragic hero holds high political or social esteem yet possesses an obvious character flaw. This discernible hubris undoubtedly causes the character’s demise or a severe forfeiture, which forces the character to undergo an unfeigned moment of enlightenment and shear reconciliation. Brutus, one of these tragic heroes, is a devout friend of the great Julius Caesar, that is, until he makes many execrable decisions he will soon regret; he becomes involved in a plot to kill the omniscient ruler of Rome during 44 B.C. After committing the crime, Mark Antony, an avid, passionate follower of Caesar, is left alive under Brutus’s orders to take his revenge on the villains who killed his beloved Caesar. After Antony turns a rioting Rome on him and wages war against him and the conspirators, Brutus falls by his own hand, turning the very sword he slaughtered Caesar with against himself. Brutus is unquestionably the tragic hero in this play because he has an innumerable amount of character flaws, he falls because of these flaws, and then comes to grips with them as he bleeds on the planes of Philippi.
In the play Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare conveys Mark Antony’s adept way of creating an impactful speech that swayed the minds of the fickle Plebeians. Antony appeals to the Plebians by adroitly using the principal rhetorical devices, ethos, pathos, and logos, to gain their trust through credibility, logic, and astute emotional manipulation.
In William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, two speeches are given to the people of Rome about Caesar's death. In Act 3, Scene 2 of this play Brutus and Antony both try to sway the minds of the Romans toward their views. Brutus tried to make the people believe he killed Caesar for a noble cause. Antony tried to persuade the people that the conspirators committed an act of brutality toward Caesar and were traitors. The effectiveness and ineffectiveness of both Antony's and Brutus's speech to the people are conveyed through tone and rhetorical devices.
“Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare is the story of the assassination of Julius Caesar. Two speeches were made after his death, one being by Mark Antony. He uses many rhetorical devices in this speech to counter the previous speech and persuade the crowd that the conspirators who killed Caesar were wrong. Rhetoric is the art of persuasion and these many devices strengthen this by making points and highlighting flaws. Antony uses many rhetorical devices, all of which are used to persuade the crowd that the conspirators are wrong and Caesar did not need to be killed.
Mark Antony’s Oration from Julius Caesar is an exceptional example of a rhetorical speech because of its use of three distinct literary devices: rhetorical questions, sarcasm, and repetition. Upon analyzing the diction, the word choice, and the syntax, the arrangement of the words, one can promptly notice that the author, William Shakespeare, composed this speech to allow his character, Mark Antony, to inconspicuously blame Brutus and the Roman officials for the murder of his beloved friend, Julius Caesar. In the beginning of his speech Mark Antony addresses a few of the reputable things Caesar has done, and then he throws out a rhetorical question that asked “Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?” (Line 18). This is said to instigate the thoughts
“A fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”-William Shakespeare. Shakespeare has written many famous plays and has inspired many movie adaptations of his plays. One of his famous plays is Julius Caesar, this play is about Julius Caesar, 2 betraying friends, and the entirety of Rome after his death. Two main characters in this play are Cassius and brutus, which are Caesar’s best friends(that end up killing him), and their plan to overthrow Caesar and rule Rome together. One of the more important pieces of literature in the play is the infamous Marc Antony speech. The strategies that he uses in the speech are great and very well written. Shakespeare wrote this speech using ethos, logos, and pathos.
In the play, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Roman ruler Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of conspirators, with some of the main names of the group being Brutus and Cassius. Marc Antony turns Rome against the well received conspirators, and it ends with a war between the conspirators and Marc Antony, and the death of Cassius and Brutus. In this story, there are many characters who are very bad people who hurt others for their own gain. The true villains of Julius Caesar are Brutus, Cassius, and Marc Antony.
The fall of power and the development of betrayal in Julius Caesar is shown as early as the beginning of the play. When Brutus and Cassius are talking about Antony, Brutus says, “By your pardon: / I will myself into the pulpit first, And show the reason of our Caesar’s death. / What Antony shall speak, I will protest / He speaks by leave and by permission, / And that we are contented Caesar shall / Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies. / It shall advantage more than do us wrong” (Shakespeare, 3.1.237-242). After Caesar died and all power was lost, betrayal began to form because there was no leaderto minimize the situations. This relates to the theme because when Antony and Brutus were giving their speeches to the citizens after Caesar’s death, Antony
Friends are usually supposed to be loyal and trustworthy, Keepers of secrets, so when all of a sudden they turn into backstabbers it is surprising. Betrayal from a friend is by far more hurtful than by an enemy of any kind
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is an intimate portrayal of the famed assassination of Julius Caesar and the complex inner workings of the men who committed the crime. In one particularly revealing scene, two of the men closest to Caesar, one a conspirator in his murder and one his second-in command, give orations for the deceased. Despite being simple in appearance, these two speeches do much of the work in developing and exposing the two characters in question. Though both have a love for Caesar, Mark Antony's is mixed with a selfish desire for power, while Brutus' is pure in nature, brought to a screeching halt by his overpowering stoicism. These starkly-contrasted personalities influence the whole of the play, leading to its tragic-but-inevitable end.
People often betray themselves without realizing it, whether it is through their public self or private self, one great example to represent this is Julius Caesar. In William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar”, betrayal is the base of the play, Shakespeare shows that betrayal occurs between friendships, country and the character themselves, characters such as Julius Caesar and Brutus break trust not only with each other and other people, but themselves as well, and that their way of thinking may change.