Julius Caesar Rhetorical Analysis Essay

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Leif Borgen Mrs. Curty ENG II honors 27 March 2024 Rhetorical Strategies in Antony's Funeral Speech In Act Three Scene Two of the play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, a character named Antony gives a speech at the funeral of Julius Caesar that uses many different forms of rhetorical Strategies. He uses rhetorical strategies to convince the audience that the assassination of Julius Caesar was not a good thing and that they should feel sorry for Julius Caesar and feel angry at Brutus and the other senators for assassinating Caesar. The forms of rhetorical strategies that Antony uses in his speech are ethos, logos, and pathos. He uses all of these different strategies to help convince the audience that the assassination of Julius Caesar was unjustified …show more content…

During the speech that took place at the funeral, Antony used ethos to help him convince the audience that the senators were wrong for assassinating Caesar by making himself seem like a figure of authority on the issue. He uses ethos in his speech by saying that he was one of Caesar's friends “He was my friend” (Shakespeare and Durband, 134). This shows the audience that he has the authority to speak on the issue and that he also has some credibility because he was one of Caesar's friends and knew him well. Ethos was not the only rhetorical strategy that Antony used in his speech, in his speech Antony also used another rhetorical strategy called logos. Logos is a rhetorical strategy that focuses on logic and facts. In his speech at Julius Caesar's funeral, Antony uses logos to help convince the audience that Caesar was a good ruler who was not greedy or ambitious. The logos in his speech say that Caesar did not take money from ransoms for himself but rather put it in the treasury “He brought many captives to Rome, whose ransom did the generals coffers fill” (Shakespeare and Durband, …show more content…

The pathos that Antony uses in the speech is when Brutus talks about how sad he is that Carsar died “My heart is in the coffin with Caesar” (Shakespeare and Durband,134). This shows the audience how sad Antony is that Caesar died, when the audience sees how sad Antony is for Caesar they also start to feel bad for Caesar. Rhetorical strategies such as pathos, ethos, and logos are all powerful tools that speakers can learn to use to help them convince people more easily. Rhetorical strategies such as pathos, ethos, and logos are important to today's society and politics. This is why modern people need to learn rhetorical strategies so that they can keep up with the rest of the world and see when they are being persuaded. In Antony's funeral speech, many different forms of rhetorical strategies are used in the speech such as ethos, logos, and pathos. From the speech, people can learn the many different rhetorical strategies and use them to realize when they are being manipulated by someone else, such as advertisers or politicians, or to help convince others to believe

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