Julius Caesar Rhetorical Analysis

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Your good friend has been murdered. Your innocent friend who shouldn’t have been, was murdered. Now, the trader who helped murder him is preaching to the citizens how he needed to just so he doesn’t seem like the bad guy. In Barbara A. Mow’s Julius Caesar, we see Caesar betrayed by his good friend Brutus and the conspirators. Brutus then attempts to convince the citizens of Rome that it needed to be done, and Caesar’s other good friend Antony attempts the convince them of the opposite. In comparison, both Brutus and Antony have convincing speeches and similarly, they both use ethical and logical appeals to either convince the people of Rome why the killing of Caesar should’ve or shouldn’t have occured, Antony’s speech is able to reach out to …show more content…

Each both speak out to the citizens of Rome upon Caesar's death while using ethos, pathos, and logos to convince them of what they believe is right. Brutus says “not that I love Caesar less, but I love Rome more.” Here Brutus is showing that even though he helped with the murdering of Caesar, he still cared for him and loved him. Antony says “my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar.” We learn here that Antony also cared deeply for his good friend Caesar. With these quotes we learn that both Antony and Caesar care deeply about their friend Caesar who they were both close with. Caesar was important to both of these men and cared for by each of them. Similarly, each of these men both spoke out to the citizens of Rome using ethos, pathos, and logos to convince them of what truly is right. Antony says “He was my friend, faithful and just to me”. Brutus says “Any dear friend of …show more content…

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

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