Julius Caesar Ethos Pathos Logos

The Battle of Speeches Two monumental speeches were given at the funeral of Julius Caesar. Brutus and Antony both had their own way of explaining and persuading the audience to listen to them. While one speech used Logos, which is the appeal of logic, the other speech used mostly pathos, the appeal to the audience’s emotions. Both speeches used two important modes of persuasion, but which speech was the most influential? Brutus, once a friend of Caesar’s, was the last to stab Caesar before the assassination of the mighty ruler. At the funeral, he delivers a speech with the explanation of why he murdered Caesar. Using logos, just as Barack Obama did at the State of Union in 2015 when he said, “our economy is growing and creating jobs

Using mostly pathos, as Abraham Lincoln did when he delivered the Gettysburg Address, stating, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here” (Leggett). This is crucial because it grasps the emotions of those affected by the Battle of Gettysburg. Antony begins his speech by addressing “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” (Holt 834). By addressing this crowd, Antony is catching the attention of those who idolized and cherished Caesar. Antony’s speech was not about clenching the attention for himself, but to turn the attention to the death and the reasoning of why Caesar was murdered. Towards the end of the speech, Antony begins to question the Roman people. Antony begins appealing the emotions by stating “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept” (Holt 835). This means, Caesar was caring enough to cry for the poor people of Rome when they cried in hard times. Antony also states “You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?” (Holt 835). By adding question, Antony is able to make the people of Rome feel the guilt of who and what they should