Brutus and Mark Antony are two characters from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Brutus is a senator in 44B.C conspiring to kill Caesar, the leader of Rome. On the other hand, Mark Antony is also a senator in 44B.C, but is trying to help Caesar lead Rome. Both want what is best for Rome .Brutus and Antony give a speech to the people. Their speeches have a lot of persuasive techniques. However, each has a different purpose for the speech and each arrives at a different conclusion as to what is best for Rome
Mark Antony and Brutus both use persuasive language techniques. Both use ethos and rule of three at the beginning of their speech. Brutus says” Romans, countrymen, and lovers” and Antony said “Friends, Romans, Countrymen". In addition
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Brutus gave his speech for many reasons but, the main reason is to help the people understand why the conspirators killed Caesar. Brutus wanted to calm down the people. "hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me, for honor, and respect to mine honor, that you may believe". After he accomplished this he told them that he had to kill Caesar for the better of Rome. Brutus stated that he did not want to kill his friend that he loved him, but he had to for the better of Rome. Brutus than told the citizens what he thought Caesar would have done if he was still alive. He told the citizens Caesar was going to turn them all into slaves. "had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves. Than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?". Brutus asks the people if he did right by asking them if they would rather die slaves than be free men. Continues to the speech Brutus asked the people if he did anything wrong by killing Caesar. If they would have rather been slaves. Brutus just wanted the people to know that he will keep them save Next Antony gave his speech. Antony gave his speech to show everyone who Cesar truly was. He told the citizens many times how honorable Brutus was, so many it could make the citizen almost question if Brutus was actually honorable. Mark Antony than talked about all the great things Caesar did. Antony remanded the people of good things Caesar did as king. ” …show more content…
Brutus thought if Caesar was gone would be best for Rome.” with this I depart, that as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death." Brutus thought Caesar was going to destroy Rome. Enslaved and tortured its people. He came to the conclusion that if Caesar would die Rome would stay as it was. In Brutus's point of view, Caesar was a threat to Rome instead of a help. On the other hand, Mark Antony thought completely opposite of Brutus. Antony thought Caesar would have help Rome grow and be better. Caesar had already done such good things before. Someone who helps the captives, the poor, and refuses the crown could never be as evil as Brutus says. Caesar would have protected Rome. Caesar was a good, humble man, and the best king for Rome around. "But yesterday the world of Caesar might have stood against the world; now lies he there". In Antony's point of view, Caesar was what Rome need he would not have threatened
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 than Brutus. Brutus has a way with the people. He is a politician, and he knows how to get the people on his side.
Brutus vs Antony 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 characters, 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. Both speakers used an ethical appeal to the crowd and established their credibility.
Brutus turned on his best friend and stabbed him in the back. In Julius Caesar’s final moments he noticed his best friend as a traitor. “Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar”, these are Caesars last words as he is stabbed in the back by his friend. Since Brutus thought what he did was for Rome, he did not kill his best friend out of spite or hate he killed his best friend Julius Caesar so that Rome could live.
Antony and Brutus are both loyal, noble men and their loyalties shape their characters, drives their actions, and decides the very future of Rome. Brutus loves Caesar, but he loves Rome more. Antony has no need to choose between his country and best friend. Before Caesar's death both men are guarded and somewhat a secret to the reader. After Caesar's murder, however, their true personalities emerge. Antony and Brutus may seem the same, and that was they are in theory, from their positions, character traits, to the very friend's they keep they are alike almost to a point of absurdity. In practice, though, you will find them rather different due to the mistakes and decisions made by both parties.
Antony is Caesar’s right hand man and good friend. He later acquires the position that Caesar had and also seeks wealth and power. All three men are after the job, but Brutus is obviously the one who was most suited for it and also the only one who never got the chance. Julius Caesar is the leader of Rome and is seeking to become king in a matter of time. Though he is a good military strategist, he lacks knowledge in running government and is too greedy to have any concern for the peasants when he is alive.
Who's speech would appeal to you? Brutus' or Antony's? Brutus, who killed Caesar by stabbing him, explained in his speech that he killed Caesar for the good of Rome because he loved his home more than his ruler. He believed Caesar was going down a tyrannical road and believed he should have stopped it. He gave his speech with reasoning and no emotion.
Because Antony ingeniously uses a plethora of logical, emotional, and credible arguments, he outshines Brutus’s speech, which lacks in verifiable evidence. Antony also seizes the power of rhetorical devices in a more effective way than Brutus to convey his message. This battle between their speeches reflects in the outcome of their war, showing the superiority of Antony’s persuasive ability. While Brutus may have been an “honorable man,” it was Antony that proved to be the more effective one.
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.
...rence between these speeches is obviously that they had different views. As said earlier, Brutus was trying to approach that killing Caesar was a good deed for Rome, while Antony’s view is that Caesar did not deserve to die and that the conspirators were the real enemies. They also used their rhetorical devices in different ways to state their points, persuading different people in the audience.
Brutus was a well-known person who loved Rome. His love for Rome led to him helping someone murder Julius Caesar, his leader. As a person do you love and care about your state or country so much that you would kill your leader to protect the people in it? Brutus cared so much about Rome and his people that he did just that. He lost his life for Rome, and it truly showed how much he cared for the people, which showed his level of honor. An honorable person is someone who is of high rank, has dignity, and highly respected. In the tragedy, “Julius Caesar”, Brutus proves that he is the most honorable Roman through his loyalty, because he was loved by the people of Rome, he helped kill his leader to help Rome, and he willingly lost his life for Rome.
There are a lot of similarities and differences between Brutus and Mark Antony speeches at Caesar funeral. Both speeches are very convincing and persuasive to the crowd. This essay will be about comparing and contrasting the two speeches. In my opinion I think that Mark Antony’s speech was better and more convincing.
On a contrasting note, Antony started his with “Friends, Romans, countrymen" to try and appeal and be more personal with the Romans. Antony's speech also seemed to contradict Brutus', and go against what he had said in his speech. Antony used plenty of sarcasm in his speech, especially when calling Brutus a 'honorable man'. Though, in comparison to Antony's speech, Brutus used Pathos, to try and appeal to the peoples love of Rome. He also used Ethos by
Where Mark antony and brutus are clearly separated in thought is where he believes that he can use logic to appeal to the crowd. He is excited to focus on himself during the speech and only really makes comments about himself. In his mind the crowd is very smart and will identify with him because
In front of the people of Rome at Caesar’s funeral whilst giving his speech, Antony makes up Brutus to up to be this honorable and noble man, nonetheless Brutus is one of the conspirators who ended Caesar’s life. Caesar has been slain by, Trebonius, Cinna, Cassius, Brutus, Ligarius, Decius, Metellus and Casca. All because most had felt that he was too ambitious for their liking, Cassius has manipulated each one of them into committing the crime alongside him. Once Caesar is killed, Brutus delivers his speech, saying, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more”(lll.ii.20). Basically just trying to justify the reason he helped to kill one of the most loved Romans in all of Rome. Antony then comes out and begins his speech at Caesar’s
Brutus begins his speech using a sentimental tone, talking of how he loved Caesar just as much as anyone present. He then goes on to explain why he conspired against a friend so dear to him. “If then that friend demands why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more” (79). Here Brutus begins to speak of how Rome is of the highest importance, how the death of Caesar was absolutely necessary, for his ambition would have led them all to their graves as slaves. Now Brutus seems to go in a logical direction, asking who would rather be a slave, “who is here so rude, that would not be Roman?”(80), making the death of Caesar seem perfectly fine, even good.