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
Imagine yourself listening to a political debate, undecided as to which leader you agree with. One candidate begins to speak about unjust societal issues, such as the horrifying amount of people in the world that do not have food on their table. The candidate also begins to touch upon the topic of taxes and how he will lower them if he is elected. You find yourself being persuaded in the direction of emotions and morals. The power of language used to appeal others is not only present in the modern world, but also in the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, written by famous English playwright William Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar portrayed a story of how an aspiring leader, Julius Caesar, is assassinated by a group of schemers, lead by Marcus Brutus, who disagreed with Caesar’s decrees and ways of governing. Over the course of the text, it demonstrated the use of two rhetorical charms: ethos and pathos. While ethos refers to the moral and ethical appeal and pathos invokes to the emotional aspect, each one was evidently shown in the funeral speech for Caesar given by his best friend, Mark Antony. Prior to Antony’s speech, Brutus had given the plebeians a synopsis of what had occurred. However, Mark Antony knew that what Brutus had told the plebeians was false. In such manner, he allured the plebeians onto his side of the tragedy by touching upon ethical and emotional appeals.
Rhetorical devices have been around for many centuries, and they are used to convince and persuade people to believe in their cause. These strategies exploit individuals by influencing them to feel sympathy or trust the speaker. In Julius Caesar, a historic tragedy written by the prominent Shakespeare, Antony’s brilliant rhetorical strategies are used to trump Brutus and prompt the Roman people to unite with his rebellion against the unjust butcher of the beloved Julius Caesar.
The most predominate and important aspect In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare are the speeches given to the Roman citizens by Brutus and Antony, the two main charaters, following the death of Caesar. Brutus and Antony both spoke to the crowd,using the same rhetorical devices to express their thoughts. Both speakers used the three classical appeals employed in the speeches: ethos, which is an appeal to credibility; pathos, which is an appeal to the emotion of the audience; and logos, which is an appeal to the content and arrangement of the argument itself. Even though both speeches have the same structure Antony’s speech is significantly more effective than Brutus’s.
In this day and age, persuasion can be seen on almost any screen. The average American views thousands of advertisements every week. Most ads are simply pushed out of a person’s mind, but the successful advertisements are the ones that resonate with people. Some forms of ads are very annoying to those who put up with them constantly. Online pop-up ads, for example, are proven to do worse for products and business than no advertising at all! This is because this form of advertising does nothing to convince or persuade the person viewing the ad, and no effort is put into actually put into proving what it’s worth to make a point. Pop-ads make zero use of something known as “rhetorical devices”. In Julius Caesar, Brutus and Mark Antony both try to convey their point of view to a large audience of Roman citizens. One had a better speech than the other since he used “rhetorical devices” more effectively. Logos (logical; what makes sense), Ethos (ethics and morals; portraying similar beliefs and values), and Pathos (emotions; natural feelings that can be counterintuitive to logos) are the rhetorical devices that Aristotle
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is a historic tragedy about the brutal murder of the Roman senator, Julius Caesar. Within the play, Caesar has two close friends—Brutus and Antony. Antony is a loyal friend, supporting Caesar and encouraging him in his climb to kingship; Brutus is a king-fearing traitor who leads the plot to murder Caesar. After Caesar is murdered, both friends make speeches—Brutus to justify his actions and Antony to passive-aggressively disprove his claims. In the speeches, they use three rhetorical literary devices: ethos, the appeal to gain the crowd’s trust; pathos, stirring the crowd’s emotions to influence behavior; and logos, the use of logic to reason with the crowd. By comparing the use of ethos, pathos, and logos in each speech and by
In the play, Julius Caesar, Shakespeare utilizes logos, pathos and ethos through out the entire play. Logos is a form of appeal that is logical and Shakespeare uses this form of appeal through Brutus and Mark Antony to try and convince the audience in a rational way. Pathos is the form of appeal that is used with meaningful language, Marc Anthony demonstrated pathos well in his funerary speech. Ethos is an ethical approach, this form of appeal; which is a form of appeal that Shakespeare uses to convince the audience of Brutus and Mark Antonys’ credibility. Brutus depends largely on ethos in his speech. Brutus uses his wisdom of the political structure to appeal to the common people. He shows the common people that he shares the same love and liberty for their country. Comparatively, Marc Anthony’s speech was more aggressive and effective. His speech was a combination of the rhetorical appeals. In Shakespeare's , Julius Caesar, Marc Anthony’s speech was much more powerful and his success was derived from the rhetorical appeal of pathos.
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.
Shakespeare uses dramatic pathos, ethos, repetition and logos in the case of Antony to make his speech memorable in his effectiveness to sway the audience’s opinion. William’s use of Antony having the last word and subterfuge powerfully displayed a moment of literature memorable for the art of persuasion and manipulation. He veiled the true intent. The weaker written speech for Brutus had one effective point. The point that he killed Caesar for Rome. The breakdown of Brutus’s speech makes readers feel the tension and
Brutus’ and Antony’s speeches. Shakespeare uses Ethos, Pathos and Logos in his play, Julius Caesar. I am going to analyze two parts of his play. Specifically, the two speeches held after Julius Caesar was stabbed to death, Brutus’ and Marc Antony’s speeches, both are a speech for the people with hope, but the speeches have two different goals and reactions to them.
In his play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare employs various rhetorical strategies such as direct address, repetition, and apostrophe in Antony’s eulogy to convince the crowd into believing that Caesar was a good ruler. His excellent use of rhetoric begins before he starts his speech through the establishment of familiarity. Before Antony begins his speech, he refers to the crowd as “friends, romans, [and] countrymen” to establish a personal connection, indicating the use of direct address (3.2.82). By referring to the crowd as “friends,” Antony removes any separation between him and the audience, establishing a close bond by choice. As it came first on his list, it emphasizes the importance of his friendship with the audience as friendship implies
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.
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.
“Live, Brutus! Live! Live!” chants the mob after Brutus, murderer of Caesar, convinces them that killing their leader was best for Rome. In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, Marc Antony, dearly beloved of Caesar, follows Brutus’ passionate appeal with his own speech. Antony is a genius when it comes to rhetorical ability and uses this to turn the tables against Brutus. He knows the mob is already on the side of the conspirators and must establish a strong connection in the form of ethos for them to listen to anything he says. He begins, “Friends, Romans, countrymen.” These three famous words are meant to make the crowd feel special because he is their friend, make them want to listen to him because he is a fellow Roman. Next, Antony assures them he comes “to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” With the crowd on Brutus’ side, they can only be glad to know that Antony has the same point of view as them. Marc Antony’s use of ethos builds a strong connection to prepare the audience for the rest of his address.
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The speech made by Marcus Antonius, called Antony, in Act Three, Scene Two of Julius Caesar shows that despite being considered a sportsman above all else, he is highly skilled with the art of oratory as well. In the play by William Shakespeare, this speech is made at the funeral of Caesar after he is killed by Brutus and the other conspirators. Brutus claimed earlier, in his own funeral speech, that the killing of Caesar was justified. He felt that Caesar was a threat, and too ambitious to be allowed as ruler. Much of this sentiment, however, was developed by the treacherous Cassius. Antony, on the other hand, felt that the conspirators were traitors to Rome and should be dealt with. This speech used a variety of methods to gradually bring the crowd to his side, yet maintain his side of the deal with Brutus. This deal was that he, “shall not in your funeral speech blame us...” (3.1.245) for the death of Caesar. Antony holds his end of the deal for the majority of the speech, yet by doing so convinces the crowd of Brutus' and the others' disloyalty. In many ways, this speech can be seen as the ultimate rhetoric, and it includes all three of Aristotle's methods of persuasion. This are the appeal to credibility, called ethos, the appeal to emotions, called pathos, and the appeal to logic, called logos. All three of these devices are used to great effect during the speech of Marcus Antonius.