Marcus Brutus and Marc Antony Persuasive Speeches In english classes there is a certain book that is always looked at due to its stunning job at persuasive speaking and that is William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, which includes the marvelous speeches between Marcus Brutus and Marc Antony. These two men go head to head in a battle of the wits as they try to see whose side they can get the people of Rome on. Their speeches are filled to the brim with fallacies, logos, ethos, pathos, and many more literary devices and terms. While the speeches have much in common they also have many differences, and these differences prove victorious for one man and cause the other man his downfall. The one big similarity between the men's speeches is their sole purpose. They both announced their speeches to the crowd with the intentions of persuading the people and their minds to sympathize with each respective party’s speech. For example, when Brutus gave his speech he wanted the crowd to agree with him and his reasons for killing Caesar, but when Antony orated his speech he wanted the people to riot against the conspirators and to cast pity on him. While there may be many similarities between the men’s speeches the amount of differences between them is …show more content…
He used parallelism to speak to the crowd and say that Caesar was an ambitious man (III, ii, 22), but he never told them any of his personal feelings about Caesar. He also didn’t talk about his relationship with him or how close the two were in their personal lives outside of governmental and political businesses. If he had told them this than they may have been struck with emotions and realize that if Brutus, Caesar’s best friend, felt like he had to strike him down in an attempt to stop his power from growing they may have been firm in their choice of picking Brutus’s
In Julius Caesar two men, Antony and Brutus, make two different speeches but with the same concept of ethos, logos, and pathos at Caesar's funeral. Brutus claims that it is okay that he killed Caesar and makes a speech about it. Antony is the more persuasive speaker than Brutus because he uses ethos, pathos, and logos better then Brutus.
I want like to take this opportunity to talk about you something that is serious and important. I live in the date of Nov.13, 2016. Actually, I am the person who is transported back in time to the ancient Rome. Therefore, I am writing this letter to you in this situation, please to make a belief that I am going to save you instead of cheating to you. In my point of view, you should stop your plans to kill Julius Caesar. Definitely, there are three reasons that make me have to suggest you to stop killing Great Caesar.
Antony also played on the people’s greed, to influence them to his side. “I found it in his closet; ‘tis his will/and they would go kiss Caesar’s dead wounds…” (III, ii, 129, 132-133). Antony is very smart in the way he does this. He knows how to talk to the people to get them to believe his side of the story and revenge Caesar’s death. Likewise, Antony is conniving. He uses this strength by flattering Brutus, and falsely befriending the conspirators into letting him speak at Caesar’s funeral. “I doubt not of your wisdom. Let each man render me his bloody hand.” (III, i, 200-201). Antony presents his case in such a way that Brutus and the other conspirators think that he is on their side, when in fact he really is going to turn the common people against them to revenge Caesar’s death by creating a war. Furthermore, Brutus is an honorable man giving him the chance to be a great leader. Brutus is an idealist man, who is optimistic about assassinating Caesar. “Grant that, and then is death a benefit. So are we Caesar’s f...
“Words: So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them,” once said Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is pertinent to the everyday life of a person, people use words to insult, flatter, and persuade others throughout the day. Furthermore, Brutus and Antony attempt to use logos, ethos, and pathos to persuade the people of Rome to agree with their side of an argument. Their speeches are similar and have the same goal, to persuade the audience, but they both take contrasting ways of how they approach the audience.
When constructing an effective argument, the triple rhetoric must be considered. In the tragedy of Julius Caesar, both Brutus and Antony attempt to persuade the people of Rome. They each take a different approach while trying to convince them. In the end, one speech is more successful than the other in the way that the crowd agrees with one.
To begin, pathos was one of Brutus’ main rhetorical techniques, used to relate to the public. In the beginning of the speech, he asks “if there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar’s, to him [Brutus] says, that Brutus’ love to Caesar was no less than his”
In Act III Scene II of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony must address the death of Julius Caesar by delivering a speech. In each speech the reader can find the presenters using Aristotle's three modes of persuasion and rhetorical devices. Brutus’ main job was to convince the audience that he killed Caesar for the good of Rome and not out of jealousy. Mark Antony on the other hand had to prove his loyalty to Caesar by declaring Brutus and the other conspirators traitors. In my opinion I believe Mark Antony had the better speech overall.
Power is something that many people fight for. In William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, two characters orate at Caesar’s funeral. Caesar was murdered by his close friends, Brutus and the Conspirators. The Conspirators covered their swords and hands in Caesar’s blood and have formed havoc among Rome. Caesar’s best friend Marc Antony goes up against Brutus at the funeral. Both of the character's speeches had different strategies in talking to the crowd and making separate points about Caesar’s rule in Rome. Although Brutus had an adequate speech, Antony’s speech was more superior and effective in getting the crowd on his side. Throughout his speech, he uses sarcasm, pathos, a way to convince the audience by making an emotional response, and rhetorical questions, to emphasize a point, not to be answered, and get the crowd on his side and avenge Caesar.
Brutus and Antony’s use of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos throughout the novel are just examples of the everyday persuasion used around us daily, when reading the play it does look like one giant competition to see who is the most persuasive and influential character. Even in today’s economy companies have to compete for the attention of consumers’ worldwide and politicians who argue their beliefs and views to millions of voters in order to get what they want, because the art of persuasion is just one big game.
He reminded everyone of the good things he did for Rome. ¨He hath brought many captives home to Rome.¨(III, II, 86) ¨When poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.¨ (III, II, 89) ¨You all see that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him kingly crown. Which he thrice refuse.¨ (III, II, 93-95). All of these quotes came from the speech Antony gave to the people. They are showing all the good Caesar was for Rome and what he did for the people in it. Antony was also very smart with his words. He said things that he was allowed to say, he followed the rules Brutus told him, he made the conspirators look bad by using the rights words. He says, ¨When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; ambition should be made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is a honourable man.¨(III, II, 89-92) When he says this he is very smart. In the beginning where he says what Caesar did for the people that needed help, this was making him look as if he wasn't ambitious and like he cared about the people. Then he goes on saying with sarcasm that if Brutus says he is ambitious he must be ambitious because Brutus is an ¨honourable¨ man. This was to make the conspirators look bad. So everything Antony said was very thought out and the people believed every bit of it. Going along with how smart Antony was, he used something he knew would make the decisions of the people final,
...ns. This made Antony's speech more effective in the fact that he used detailed reasoning for why Caesar was not ambitious. This was why the people came to his favor in the end. The tones and rhetorical devices they used helped to capture their audience by appealing to their emotions and helping to move the views of Antony and Brutus's views across to their listeners. Comparing effectiveness and ineffectiveness of both speeches was important in determining which way the people would be swayed.
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.
Can one really justify killing a fellow human being? I’m not sure anyone can, but between the two very convincing speeches of Brutus and Antony I would say Antony’s speech was more powerful or convincing. Antony used logos to refute Brutus’ claim, that Caesar was ambitious and therefore had to be killed, and used pathos to spark emotion in the audience of Plebeians and convince them he was right. During Brutus’ speech he convinced the crowd that Caesar was ambitious, too ambitious, to the point where he should be killed, but Anthony did not agree. Anthony used logos by provided a few examples of when Caesar was not as Brutus’ described him one being that, “he that brought many captives home to Rome/ Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:/
...cessful but Mark Anthony’s speech is much more effective. Ultimately Brutus is trying to defend himself for the killing of Caesar. He wanted to prove to the townspeople that what he did was for the liberty and justice of the Roman Empire. Mark Antony was successful because in his speech he uses a masterful combination of ethos, logos, pathos. He also uses a lot of repetition and rhetorical irony which indirectly shows the crowd that Brutus is not an honorable man and what he does is very wrong. Antony shows true compassion to the common people and the passion won the their hearts over. Antony uses more of a pathos, emotional appeal, unlike Brutus who uses more logos and ethos. Antony’s tone in his speech was melancholy and the crowd could see true sympathy. Antony was ultimately able to persuade his point of view to the crowd and was more victorious than Brutus.
After Caesar was killed, Antony and Brutus both gave rhetoric speeches at Caesar’s funeral. Both Antony and Brutus used many different methods of speaking to make their speech persuasive. Antony’s speech definitely won the people over and had the most effect on them. Overall I think that Antony’s speech was better and more persuasive than Brutus’s speech.