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Effective and appropriate communication
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“The worst thing in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.”(Heather Brewer) In this play some of Caesars closest friends plan to assassinate him. Antony doesn’t know of this plan and comes to find Caesar dead. After pretending to agree with the conspirators that killed Caesar, Antony turns his back and tells the people of Rome that the conspirators deserve to be punished. He manages to have the people of Rome revolt against the ones that killed his beloved Caesar. Antony attempts to convince the people that all the conspirators must pay for what they have done, he does so by using irony and ethos to get the people to believe that the conspirators are nothing …show more content…
“For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel…This was the most unkindest cut of all; for when noble Caesar saw him stab, ingratitude, more strong that traitors’ arms, quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart. (III.II.182-187)” Antony points out that what killed Caesar wasn’t the pain from the stab, it was knowing that his best friend, Brutus was the one who stabbed him. “Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful; and just to me; but Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man.(III.II.85-89) He repeatedly uses the terms “ambitious” and “honorable” in the first parts of his speech, and slowly both terms go from being compliments to insults. By the end of his speech he had proved how Brutus is really not honorable because an honorable man would not kill someone that they love. Brutus betrays Caesar in this play by literally stabbing him in the chest and figuratively stabbing him in the …show more content…
His word choice and repetition eventually makes the people lean on his side. He makes it clear that the conspirators have killed Caesar and that they have betrayed him by doing so. The sad thing about betrayal is that it’s never caused by the ones you hate or dislike but by the ones you love and adore. Caesar thought of all of them as friends never believing that any of them would want to kill him. He never thought that the friendship between he and Brutus would end the way it did. Antony stresses how friendships and emotional connections are important. Throughout the play he makes it clear that a friend betraying you is worse than any pain you can even imagine. When Caesar takes that blow from Brutus the tears that fell were because of betrayal. Using rhetorical devices and pathos in his speech really made the people change their mind about whose side to take and what to
In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus is a skillful orator who makes use of rhetorical devices to convey his points. In his speech made after the death of Caesar, Brutus uses devices such as ethos, parallelism, and rhetorical questions to persuade the people to his way of thinking. Ethos is when a speaker gives an example of credibility in order to appeal to the listener’s ethics. When Brutus asks the people to “believe me for mine honor, and have respect for mine honor” (3.2.14-15), he is using ethos to appeal to their morals in order to make them consider his opinions. The use of ethos exhibits Brutus’ need for the people to approve of him, and by extension, the assassination of Caesar. Later, Brutus utilizes parallelism
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.
Character Analysis Antony- What Cassius says about Antony: "You know not what…that which he will utter?" Pg. 582 lines 233-236. This shows that the conspirators are afraid of what Antony will say in his oration to the mob. Cassius is trying to make Brutus see what Antony is really up to, but Brutus is too caught up in honor to notice. What Antony does: He speaks to the crowd making them feel sorry for him, ashamed of themselves, and hate the conspirators. He causes them to go into an angry rage in scene 3. What Antony feels: "O pardon me thou…gentle with these butchers." Pg. 582 lines 254-236. Antony has made a deal with the conspirators that have killed his best friend. This quote is after the conspirators have left, and he is talking to the corpse of Caesar. He spills his true intentions and gives word of his counter conspiracy. He feels that even though the men are honorable, that they have butchered a man that could have been reasoned with and brought out of what it was he did wrong. What Antony says: "Let each man render me his bloody hand…My credit now stands on such slippery ground that one of two bad ways you must conceit me…." Pg. 580 lines 184-194 He leads the conspirators on to trust him, when in fact, he wants to be able to speak to the mob. He uses a vicious pun so that he knows what he is talking about, but the conspirators think that he is simply talking about the blood on the ground being slippery. Caesar- What Caesar says: "Et tù Brute? Then fall Caesar!" Pg. 577 line 77 Caesar is shocked that Brutus, his most loyal friend would do this. His mask comes off at this point and shows his personal face. Throughout the play, he has put himself as an arrogant official, and only when he is around his friends does he show his true identity. This is so important because marks the point when Caesar’s spirit enters Antony’s revenge. The play comes to its climax in this line. What Caesar does: Caesar refuses to let Publius Cimber back into Rome. He, in a way, kills himself by the way he responds. He puts himself up as a god-like man and almost says he is in control of his own destiny. This gives the conspirators final reason to kill him, and they do.
Brutus was a devious man, even though what he thought he was doing was right. Brutus told his fellow conspirators to kill Caesar “boldly, but not angerly.”(3.1.256-257) Brutus was one of Caesars right hand men, and yet Brutus kills his own friend. When Antony asks to speak at Caesars funeral, Cassius says no, but Brutus tell him that Antony will speak, but only what Brutus tells him to say. Brutus also embraces the fact that he just killed his friend, and also tells the senators who had just witnessed it to not be afraid, but to stay because ambition has paid its debt.
Think if all of the sudden someone that you followed and respected died. It would be a tragedy for you. Now think if this was a well respected ruler of an empire. The book Julius Caesar shows an occurrence like this. Caesar is killed and it leads to two important speeches in the book. I’m talking about Brutus and Antony’s speeches. They both try to sway the crowd by using characteristics like Ethos, Pathos, or Logos in their speeches. Here are ways that Brutus and Antony try to sway the crowd.
Since the people knew Caesar because of his friendliness and how nice he was to people he was able to get sympathy for his death. When the people remembered how good he was at one point they wanted to get vengeance on the conspirators,Antony had used persuasion and reverse psychology with the crowd to get mad at the conspirators. Brutus had not connected to the people as well because he did not give as much sympathy about Caesar's Death , and what he will give in return. Antony had touched the people when he sad said that he had money and land for the people of rome but he did not want to read it because it would make them made. Once that had hit there was no way Brutus could fight back against Antony's
Antony is trying to convince his audience of why Brutus and the conspirators are wrong for what they did, and Brutus is trying to convince them of why Caesar needed to be killed. In the book, Brutus says this“Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freeman?” Here we see Brutus trying to reach out to the audience and make them think about being enslaved. He is trying to make them realize that he and the conspirators needed to kill Caesar for their sake. In order to keep their lives normal as they know it, Caesar needed to die. He was trying to emotionally make them feel a certain way, and understand that he killed his good friend for the sake of the citizens or Rome. On the other hand, Antony says “For Brutus is an honorable man; so they all, all honorable men”. With this quote it shows that Antony recognizes the trustworthiness of Brutus and the conspirators. He recognizes they are honorable and people who would make the right decisions. This truly helps persuade that the decision of killing Caesar was wrong, that even a man who believes in the people who commited the murder goes against them. Not only does he make the people realize that the friendship between Caesar and Him was strong and that they’re wrong for taking Caesar from him, but he shows that these honorable men truly chose the wrong decision. He does this by saying how
In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony who once was a dear and loyal friend to the late Julius Caesar, gains an impactful opportunity to showcase his masterful art of rhetoric when he provides a speech at Caesar’s funeral. In the plotline of the play, a man named Brutus is swayed into killing Caesar, his close friend; because he is prodded by other deceitful men who claim that the murder of Caesar would benefit the future and well-being of Rome. After the murder is successfully conducted, Brutus and the other conspirators bathe their hands in the blood of Caesar and simultaneously stimulate tension and chaos among the people of Rome. Mark Antony valiantly goes to see Caesar’s body and to also speak
First, Mark Antony has been loyal to Caesar since the beginning of the play; in addition, he is a decent speaker that can persuade individuals to follow him at Caesar’s funeral. At the end of the funeral, numerous Romans take Antony’s concept of revenging the conspirators for their wrong-doing. The Plebeians say, “We’ll burn the house of Brutus/ Away then. Come, seek the conspirators” (3.2.245-246). It suggests the powerful effects of Antony’s speech which make the Plebeians seek revenge, versus Brutus’s speech about how Caesar deserves to die because of his ambition. Although it is true that Antony can easily
He touched the plebeians hearts by saying, “ O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts/ And men have lost their reason! Bear with me/ My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar/ And I must pause till it come back to me” (III.ii.101-104). At this point in his speech, Antony is showing his anger towards the conspirators making the crowed fill with rage. He also shows his sorrow by pausing in the middle of his speech, showing the crowd that he is mournful towards his noble friend Caesar. He does this to strike compassion in the hearts of the citizens. Another example is when Antony reveals the body of Caesar in front of the citizens, “ And I perceive you feel/ The dint of pity, These are gracious drops/ kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold/ Our Caesar’s vesture wounded? Look you here!/ Here is himself, marred, as you see, with traitors” (III.ii.190-194). This automatically causes an emotional reaction from the crowd. The act is very important because revealing the bloody wounds to the citizens causes not only an emotional reaction, but an angry and revenge seeking a reaction. Antony knows that if he is able to show them what Cassius and Brutus did to Caesar, he might be able to persuade the citizens to his
On one particular occasion, he says, “Therefore, I took your hands, but, was indeed, swayed from that point, by looking down on Caesar. Friends am I with you all and love you all, upon this hope that you shall give me reasons why and where in Caesar was dangerous” (III.i.230-234). Antony realizes that Brutus needs him to join the conspirators reason on why they needed to kill Caesar. By knowing this he exploits Brutus’ illusion by telling the conspirators, “Friends am I will you all and love you all.” Thus, the conspirators are being manipulated by Antony into believing that he’ll go along with them. He, likewise, figures out a way to use his intelligence to manipulate the crowd into turning against the conspirators. In this statement, he affirms, “Having patience, gentle friends, I must not read it; It is not meet you know how Caesar loved men; and being man, bearing the will of Caesar it will inflame you, it will make you mad” (III.ii.139-143). This demonstrates how Antony manipulates the public by making them think he cannot read the will which makes the crowd’s feelings more unstable. By sharing Caesar’s will, he has control over the plebeians. This ties in how his loyalty to Caesar motivated him into manipulating the crowd into turning against the conspirators, which begins a civil
Once they had all of Caesar’s blood all over them they paraded around the town. Everyone was in shock and didn’t know what to think. Antony asked Brutus for permission to speak after Brutus had given his speech. Brutus gave him permission. During Antony’s speech he kept saying “for Brutus is an honorable man” (1250). He tells people that Brutus is still an honorable man even though he killed Caesar. He told the people its ok to be mad and sad but to remember Brutus is still an honorable man. In contrast Antony could of just been telling the citizens what they want to hear. He could be saying things to get the people to listen and to get on his side. While the people did listen and believe what he was saying he leads the people to believe Brutus was still an honorable
Antony takes advantage of Brutus' absence and tries to win over the citizens with an emotional appeal: (pathos). Antony begins to speak of "Brutus [being] an honorable man" (line 91 3.2), this creates irony because Brutus broke Caeser's trust because of the fear he (Brutus) had for Caeser's power. Antony uses his grief to win over the citizens by saying "He [was] my friend, faithful [like me]". He used these words "friend' and "faithful" to make it out to him being a trustworthy person to Caeser and his kingdom. He begins to turn the people against Brutus and his doing by accusing Brutus of his ambitions. In (line 95 3.2) by saying " [three times] I presented him [the kings] crown." because Brutus refused the crown shown in (line 96 3.2). This begins to turn the city against Brutus because Antony convinced them that Brutus did Caeser
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a tragedy that includes events leading to the fall of Julius Caesar, as well as the impact this has on the Roman citizens and conspirators. Following Caesar’s death, Brutus and Antony both deliver speeches in hopes of gaining supporters. Some readers believe that Brutus’ reasons for killing Caesar are more convincing due to his use of certain strategies. However, Antony’s speech is more successful since he uses a wider range of persuasion techniques and stronger supporting arguments. This information is important because it helps the readers understand how Antony and Brutus’ differences during the funeral speech can greatly impact the way people view Caesar’s assassination. Although Brutus effectively
Although Caesar was ambitious he was also very naive when it came to the assassination plot against him. The naive sense Caesar expedited later lead to his untimely death. Marcus Brutus was a nobleman, the people of Rome respected and valued his ideas. His ego, patriotic nature, and honesty are all flaws that can’t be masked within himself. Brutus’s ego for his family and his honesty is used by Cassius to persuade Brutus into joining in the plot against his dear friend Caesar. Brutus’s patriotic nature for Rome is the main reason he joined in the assassination. In the play Brutus confesses that he isn’t doing it out of jealousy but to save the Roman people. Antony was loyal individual, he honored Caesar and wanted him to become the dictator of Rome. Throughout the play you notice Antony’s loyalty, even after Caesar dies. Antony wants the conspirators to pay for the actions of killing his friend by persuading the Roman people to turn against Brutus and Cassius. Antony tricks the conspirators into thinking that he is their accomplice. Cassius was a jealous man but he was also very knowledgeable. He hated the fact that Caesar had gained all of this power over the Roman people and decided . He had