Rhetorical Devices In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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The second part of Antony’s speech uses the same methods as his first except for the repetition. He simply just goes for using his passive aggression, sarcasm and logos. With the addition of indirect suggestions. When he begins to speak again he knows that the people of Rome are on his side for First Citizen said “If it be found so, some will dear abide it” (III.ii.111). That meant they someone, the conspirators, will pay dearly for what they had done. The crowd had turned on Brutus. He starts out with a bit of pathos in the first line by say “...Caesar might / Have stood against the world. Now lies he there,/And none so poor to do him reverence” (III.ii.115-117). He means that Caesar would have literally been able to stand against the world …show more content…

Antony uses sarcasm again when he speaks of Brutus, that Brutus was “Caesar's angel”. He uses logos for Caesar’s feelings toward Brutus, “how dearly Caesar loved him!”. He even goes so far as to pull the cloak off of Caesars marred body to stir the crowd up even more. His last line, after he has spoken the truth about the conspirators, nothing but, the truth, “Here is himself, marred, as you see, with traitors” (III.ii.194). The citizens mourned the loss of Caesar before become fueled with rage towards the conspirators “Let not a traitor live!” (III.ii.202). During the last part of Antony’s speech he reverts back to mainly using his sarcasm and passive aggression, saying “let me not stir you up” and “They that have done this deed are honorable”. Of course, he does not mean this one bit. He wouldn’t have said what he did before if he meant a word of that. He continues using passive aggression by basically saying they had reasons that I could not understand, but surely they will answer your questions. The conspirators fled because they knew nothing they could say anymore could justify what they did. Antony even feigns ignorance once when he says “I am no orator, as Brutus is,”

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