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Antony's Speech

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Brutus and Antony had a speech at Caesar's funeral and both had compelling speeches but Antony went into much more depth than Brutus did. Brutus had more time to think of his speech than Antony did because he had already known of Caesar's conspiracy to be killed. Thus Antony had little time to come up with one and could not use as much literary devices or logic.
In the speech that Brutus made, he addressed the peasants as countrymen, Romans, and friends. He does so to create a sense of unity and friendliness in the speech. However, Brutus might have a very constructed speech, the speech isn't very influential. Brutus's speech does not use much ethic and constantly tries to put Caesar down as very ambitious and having too much pride. The speech may have been well organized but it lacked evidence that Caesar was ambitious and too much pride because he wrongly stated that refusing the crows three times was foolish and ambitious. Indeed, Caesar deny the crown but that does not make him pride too …show more content…

Antony gave facts and logic so the audience will listen to his speech more. Antony had a longer speech made in a less time. The reason for Antony having a longer speech is because since Brutus no longer cared for Caesar he no longer wanted to work on the speech. Antony's speech grabs the audience and slowly lets off the logic and fact, unlike Brutus. Antony went into detail about his counter to the speech Brutus made by asking questions like, "Is it really ambition to deny the crown thrice?" After asking the question he says what Brutus did wrong and perfectly describe how it wasn't true. Antony's speech is more compelling to that of Brutus because of the ethic, because of the feeling, and because of the logic. The speech of Antony is more creditable to the audience and the commoners because of how it really portrays Caesar and gives reasons why he might of not of been a bad

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