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Effective and appropriate communication
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“The worst thing in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.”(Heather Brewer) In this play some of Caesars closest friends plan to assassinate him. Antony doesn’t know of this plan and comes to find Caesar dead. After pretending to agree with the conspirators that killed Caesar, Antony turns his back and tells the people of Rome that the conspirators deserve to be punished. He manages to have the people of Rome revolt against the ones that killed his beloved Caesar. Antony attempts to convince the people that all the conspirators must pay for what they have done, he does so by using irony and ethos to get the people to believe that the conspirators are nothing …show more content…
but traitors. In Antony’s speech he uses heartfelt and effective phrases to reach the hearts of the citizens of Rome.
“For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel…This was the most unkindest cut of all; for when noble Caesar saw him stab, ingratitude, more strong that traitors’ arms, quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart. (III.II.182-187)” Antony points out that what killed Caesar wasn’t the pain from the stab, it was knowing that his best friend, Brutus was the one who stabbed him. “Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful; and just to me; but Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man.(III.II.85-89) He repeatedly uses the terms “ambitious” and “honorable” in the first parts of his speech, and slowly both terms go from being compliments to insults. By the end of his speech he had proved how Brutus is really not honorable because an honorable man would not kill someone that they love. Brutus betrays Caesar in this play by literally stabbing him in the chest and figuratively stabbing him in the …show more content…
back. Throughout his speech Antony practically masters the use of rhetorical devices as he continues to repeat the word “honorable”. “I fear I wrong the honorable men whose daggers have stabbed Caesar, I do fear it. (III.II.152-153)” The more he uses this word the more the crowd realizes that it is becoming more and more of an insult. This makes the people think less Brutus and the others, because how can such honorable men kill a man that thought of them as some of his closest friends? “They were traitors. Honorable men...They were villains, murderers! (III.II.154-156)” This eventually leads to the citizens being furious with the conspirators and only wanting to kill them. The citizens of Rome run out in anger to destroy the conspirators “Here was a Caesar! When comes such another? (III.II.253)” Antony lets the people of Rome know that those “honorable” men have taken away their beloved Caesar and another will never return. In Antony’s speech, his master of rhetorical devices makes it easier for him to convince the people of Rome that Brutus and the others are traitors and nothing more.
His word choice and repetition eventually makes the people lean on his side. He makes it clear that the conspirators have killed Caesar and that they have betrayed him by doing so. The sad thing about betrayal is that it’s never caused by the ones you hate or dislike but by the ones you love and adore. Caesar thought of all of them as friends never believing that any of them would want to kill him. He never thought that the friendship between he and Brutus would end the way it did. Antony stresses how friendships and emotional connections are important. Throughout the play he makes it clear that a friend betraying you is worse than any pain you can even imagine. When Caesar takes that blow from Brutus the tears that fell were because of betrayal. Using rhetorical devices and pathos in his speech really made the people change their mind about whose side to take and what to
believe.
Since the people knew Caesar because of his friendliness and how nice he was to people he was able to get sympathy for his death. When the people remembered how good he was at one point they wanted to get vengeance on the conspirators,Antony had used persuasion and reverse psychology with the crowd to get mad at the conspirators. Brutus had not connected to the people as well because he did not give as much sympathy about Caesar's Death , and what he will give in return. Antony had touched the people when he sad said that he had money and land for the people of rome but he did not want to read it because it would make them made. Once that had hit there was no way Brutus could fight back against Antony's
In act III, scene ii, Antony proves to himself and the conspiracy, that he has the power to turn Rome against Brutus. He deceived the conspirators with his speech during Caesar’s funeral. In this speech, Antony pulls at the heartstrings of the countryman by showing emotions and turning them against their beloved leader, Brutus. The scene takes place the day of Caesar's death. Leading up to this point the people loved Brutus because, reasonably he explains of them about Caesar's death and told them it was necessary. In Antony's speech he showed signs of hatred towards Brutus and the conspirators. He thinks for himself and deceives the people, when he explains how Brutus lied to the people . The plot depends on Antony’s speech.
In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus is a skillful orator who makes use of rhetorical devices to convey his points. In his speech made after the death of Caesar, Brutus uses devices such as ethos, parallelism, and rhetorical questions to persuade the people to his way of thinking. Ethos is when a speaker gives an example of credibility in order to appeal to the listener’s ethics. When Brutus asks the people to “believe me for mine honor, and have respect for mine honor” (3.2.14-15), he is using ethos to appeal to their morals in order to make them consider his opinions. The use of ethos exhibits Brutus’ need for the people to approve of him, and by extension, the assassination of Caesar. Later, Brutus utilizes parallelism
Brutus put his trust in Antony to not turn on him at the funeral. He was lead to believe that Antony would only speak good of the conspirators and defend them for the actions they have made. He trusted Antony when he told him he would not express such hate and talk of the bad they did and then later turned against them for the vengeance of Caesar. Brutus told Antony, “You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, But speak all good you can devise of Caesar” (III.i.245-246). He told him that the only way he is going to be able to speak at Caesar’s funeral is if he speaks good of the conspirators. After Antony said his speech, the whole crowd immediately switched and sided with him against them. They wanted nothing more than for Brutus, Cassius and the other contributors to be dead. This reveals that Brutus is shameful for putting his trust in someone who was so close to Caesar. Brutus trusted that Antony wouldn't do anything and just imagined he would be to scared to step up and speak out. This leads to Brutus losing the trust he had for Antony and starting a war between the people and the conspirators. As the war was about to proceed, they all prepped for what was about to happen. Antony and his army completely dominated Brutus’ and lead to many of them fleeing for their lives. Many people died by genocide while other committed suicide. Brutus was among the ones of suicide. He no longer wanted to be alive and felt that he had lived and fulfill what he had wanted. People were dead and he knew he was going to be one of them. Brutus’ last words were, “Caesar, now be still; I killed not thee with half so good a will” (V.v.50-51). He wanted Caesar to know that he can now be at rest because the vengeance he was looking for has been given. Because of all the trust he put in the people that were taking advantage of him, he ended up finishing his life. This reveals that Brutus really did
First, Mark Antony has been loyal to Caesar since the beginning of the play; in addition, he is a decent speaker that can persuade individuals to follow him at Caesar’s funeral. At the end of the funeral, numerous Romans take Antony’s concept of revenging the conspirators for their wrong-doing. The Plebeians say, “We’ll burn the house of Brutus/ Away then. Come, seek the conspirators” (3.2.245-246). It suggests the powerful effects of Antony’s speech which make the Plebeians seek revenge, versus Brutus’s speech about how Caesar deserves to die because of his ambition. Although it is true that Antony can easily
In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony—a loyal friend to Julius Caesar, the former emperor of Rome—gives a speech to the Roman commoners in order to persuade them to turn against Brutus, for Brutus and the conspirators had slain Caesar. Antony’s uses rough and sharp diction, a scornful tone, and honest anecdotes in order to achieve his purpose of manipulating the common people to take his side.
Character Analysis Antony- What Cassius says about Antony: "You know not what…that which he will utter?" Pg. 582 lines 233-236. This shows that the conspirators are afraid of what Antony will say in his oration to the mob. Cassius is trying to make Brutus see what Antony is really up to, but Brutus is too caught up in honor to notice. What Antony does: He speaks to the crowd making them feel sorry for him, ashamed of themselves, and hate the conspirators. He causes them to go into an angry rage in scene 3. What Antony feels: "O pardon me thou…gentle with these butchers." Pg. 582 lines 254-236. Antony has made a deal with the conspirators that have killed his best friend. This quote is after the conspirators have left, and he is talking to the corpse of Caesar. He spills his true intentions and gives word of his counter conspiracy. He feels that even though the men are honorable, that they have butchered a man that could have been reasoned with and brought out of what it was he did wrong. What Antony says: "Let each man render me his bloody hand…My credit now stands on such slippery ground that one of two bad ways you must conceit me…." Pg. 580 lines 184-194 He leads the conspirators on to trust him, when in fact, he wants to be able to speak to the mob. He uses a vicious pun so that he knows what he is talking about, but the conspirators think that he is simply talking about the blood on the ground being slippery. Caesar- What Caesar says: "Et tù Brute? Then fall Caesar!" Pg. 577 line 77 Caesar is shocked that Brutus, his most loyal friend would do this. His mask comes off at this point and shows his personal face. Throughout the play, he has put himself as an arrogant official, and only when he is around his friends does he show his true identity. This is so important because marks the point when Caesar’s spirit enters Antony’s revenge. The play comes to its climax in this line. What Caesar does: Caesar refuses to let Publius Cimber back into Rome. He, in a way, kills himself by the way he responds. He puts himself up as a god-like man and almost says he is in control of his own destiny. This gives the conspirators final reason to kill him, and they do.
Brutus was a devious man, even though what he thought he was doing was right. Brutus told his fellow conspirators to kill Caesar “boldly, but not angerly.”(3.1.256-257) Brutus was one of Caesars right hand men, and yet Brutus kills his own friend. When Antony asks to speak at Caesars funeral, Cassius says no, but Brutus tell him that Antony will speak, but only what Brutus tells him to say. Brutus also embraces the fact that he just killed his friend, and also tells the senators who had just witnessed it to not be afraid, but to stay because ambition has paid its debt.
Think if all of the sudden someone that you followed and respected died. It would be a tragedy for you. Now think if this was a well respected ruler of an empire. The book Julius Caesar shows an occurrence like this. Caesar is killed and it leads to two important speeches in the book. I’m talking about Brutus and Antony’s speeches. They both try to sway the crowd by using characteristics like Ethos, Pathos, or Logos in their speeches. Here are ways that Brutus and Antony try to sway the crowd.
Antony is trying to convince his audience of why Brutus and the conspirators are wrong for what they did, and Brutus is trying to convince them of why Caesar needed to be killed. In the book, Brutus says this“Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freeman?” Here we see Brutus trying to reach out to the audience and make them think about being enslaved. He is trying to make them realize that he and the conspirators needed to kill Caesar for their sake. In order to keep their lives normal as they know it, Caesar needed to die. He was trying to emotionally make them feel a certain way, and understand that he killed his good friend for the sake of the citizens or Rome. On the other hand, Antony says “For Brutus is an honorable man; so they all, all honorable men”. With this quote it shows that Antony recognizes the trustworthiness of Brutus and the conspirators. He recognizes they are honorable and people who would make the right decisions. This truly helps persuade that the decision of killing Caesar was wrong, that even a man who believes in the people who commited the murder goes against them. Not only does he make the people realize that the friendship between Caesar and Him was strong and that they’re wrong for taking Caesar from him, but he shows that these honorable men truly chose the wrong decision. He does this by saying how
In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony who once was a dear and loyal friend to the late Julius Caesar, gains an impactful opportunity to showcase his masterful art of rhetoric when he provides a speech at Caesar’s funeral. In the plotline of the play, a man named Brutus is swayed into killing Caesar, his close friend; because he is prodded by other deceitful men who claim that the murder of Caesar would benefit the future and well-being of Rome. After the murder is successfully conducted, Brutus and the other conspirators bathe their hands in the blood of Caesar and simultaneously stimulate tension and chaos among the people of Rome. Mark Antony valiantly goes to see Caesar’s body and to also speak
Friendship is something that most people value in life, but some friendships can lead to a negative impact or even a “tragic” ending. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar's ambition for power drove the honorable Brutus to think negatively about Caesar’s position of being the king of Rome. The honorable Brutus shows his love by committing an act which seems to him to be the best fit for the city, which is to get rid of Julius Caesar. After Caesar is murdered, Caesars good friend Antony seeks revenge in his honor. Throughout the play, Shakespeare includes many good speeches; one of the best was the one delivered by Antony. Antony’s speech included many persuasive rhetorical devices such as logos, pathos, and ethos. By carefully
Once they had all of Caesar’s blood all over them they paraded around the town. Everyone was in shock and didn’t know what to think. Antony asked Brutus for permission to speak after Brutus had given his speech. Brutus gave him permission. During Antony’s speech he kept saying “for Brutus is an honorable man” (1250). He tells people that Brutus is still an honorable man even though he killed Caesar. He told the people its ok to be mad and sad but to remember Brutus is still an honorable man. In contrast Antony could of just been telling the citizens what they want to hear. He could be saying things to get the people to listen and to get on his side. While the people did listen and believe what he was saying he leads the people to believe Brutus was still an honorable
Antony takes advantage of Brutus' absence and tries to win over the citizens with an emotional appeal: (pathos). Antony begins to speak of "Brutus [being] an honorable man" (line 91 3.2), this creates irony because Brutus broke Caeser's trust because of the fear he (Brutus) had for Caeser's power. Antony uses his grief to win over the citizens by saying "He [was] my friend, faithful [like me]". He used these words "friend' and "faithful" to make it out to him being a trustworthy person to Caeser and his kingdom. He begins to turn the people against Brutus and his doing by accusing Brutus of his ambitions. In (line 95 3.2) by saying " [three times] I presented him [the kings] crown." because Brutus refused the crown shown in (line 96 3.2). This begins to turn the city against Brutus because Antony convinced them that Brutus did Caeser
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a tragedy that includes events leading to the fall of Julius Caesar, as well as the impact this has on the Roman citizens and conspirators. Following Caesar’s death, Brutus and Antony both deliver speeches in hopes of gaining supporters. Some readers believe that Brutus’ reasons for killing Caesar are more convincing due to his use of certain strategies. However, Antony’s speech is more successful since he uses a wider range of persuasion techniques and stronger supporting arguments. This information is important because it helps the readers understand how Antony and Brutus’ differences during the funeral speech can greatly impact the way people view Caesar’s assassination. Although Brutus effectively