Brutus And Mark Antony's Speeches

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a tragic story of the dog and the manger.  After Caesar is killed Mark Antony, a good friend of Caesar, plots to revenge his bloody death.  He knows there is strength in numbers, and through a speech at Caesar's funeral, Antony plans to win the crowd of Rome and turn them against Brutus and the other conspirators.  Cassius is one of the leading conspirators and is weary of Antony; Brutus is confident that there is nothing to fear, but he speaks before Antony at the funeral just to be safe.  These two speeches, vastly different in message but similar in delivery, move the emotions of the people.  Brutus's and Antony's

In the Tragedy Of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Anthony both presented a speech to the citizens of Rome. Brutus argued why his actions to kill Julius were acceptable while Antony contradicted Brutus’s views, arguing why Caesar should not have been murdered. Both speakers used ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade the people of Rome. Brutus’s speech was mainly based on logic, while Antony’s speech took more of an emotional approach . Overall, Antony had a sophistic style, he was much more artful and cunning than Brutus. He reeled in the crowd like a fish and captured them with his compelling diction.

In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, both Brutus and Mark Antony provide moving funeral speeches in hopes to sway the crowd towards their opinion. Brutus makes an attempt to assure the Roman people of his own innocence and justify the murder of Julius Caesar. Adversely, Mark Antony offers a speech to counter that of Brutus and act as the defense for Julius Caesar. While both speeches are sufficient in swaying their audience, Antony is able to use both pathos and antithesis more effectively and his use of the devices enables him to provide a far more compelling speech.

In this world, few skills carry with them greater power than the skill of speaking to a crowd. A good speech can shatter the dreams or raise the hopes of millions. It can raise civilizations, or it can destroy them. The right speech can change the world. And the legendary writer William Shakespeare knew this well, as we see in one of his most popular plays; Julius Caesar. In the play, this power speech has is seen most heavily in the life of Brutus, who was not only manipulated by the words of others time after time, but tried to sway others with his own words, with some success even, but was often ruined by the even stronger rhetoric of others or perhaps by other events later on.

Cassius’s character was sneaky and conniving with the motive to kill Caesar for his country because of his jealousy. His role being the mastermind behind the plan led Cassius to deceive a group of people. Cassius’s character was sneaky because he convinced many people to do what he wanted to be done. Which caused the death of Caesar because he thought it would make his country a better place. Cassius was also jealous of Caesar because Caesar had all the power in Rome. Consequently, the jealous man turned against Caesar because he wanted to have the power of Caesar.

He compares Caesar to a serpent in an egg which he must kill before it hatches. Brutus knows that Caesar is gaining too much power too quickly and it must come to an end. He shows his belief in a republic government by saying, “We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar / And in the spirit of men there is no blood" (II.i. 180-181). Cassius is a character who is jealous of Caesar’s power and also wants it to end. He forms a group of conspirators who are against Julius Caesar. He persuades Brutus to help him and the other conspirators to kill Caesar during the ides of March. Brutus joins but only due to his love for Rome and its people. He proves this by saying "Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius." (II.i. 179). This also proves his love for Caesar because he wants to kill him with some sort of honor. Brutus wants the citizens to look at him not as a murderer but for someone who cares for his country. He expresses his ideas toward the stabbing by saying , “If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer-not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more" (III, ii, 17-19).

In Act II of the play, Julius Caesar, the character says “ You came just in time to convey my greetings to the senators and to tell them that I will not come today” (II, ii, 60-61). Caesar says this to Decius and commands him to go tell this to the senate. Caesar is not going to the senate, even though he knows its because they want to crown him king. He is not going because his wife has had terrible dreams about it but Decius talks him into going anyway. Caesar ends up getting killed at the senate by the conspirators, who are the group of men who want Caesar dead. The lead man in the group, Brutus, is one of Caesar’s close friends and Caesar is heartbroken when he turns and Brutus puts the final dagger into his side. Marc Antony is Caesar's right hand man and he is very upset and angry about Caesar's death. Marc Antony and Brutus both give speeches at Caesar’s funeral about their sides of the story. Marc Antony gave a more outstanding speech compared to the one Brutus gave and he gained the most followers from it.

The differences of the two speeches given after Ceasers death was the intentions that were meant to be given at the time of delivery while brutus speaking to them all as Romans appealing to their sense of country their individual ethos while brutus spoke initially greeted them as friends and countrymen leading the country to divide and pick sides. Brutus's ideals were revealed in his speech stating that his duty to his country outweighed the duty he had with his former friend that being the reason he and the others had assassinated the former ruler the fear of julius becoming a tyrant becoming to much to handle.while Mark antony tried hard to keep his fellow citizens calm by telling them not to be angry at the traitorus conspirotors that had

In the play, Tragedy of Julius Caesar, a lot of things tragic things happened. Cassius was jealous of Caesar becoming king. Cassius didn’t want Caesar to be king because, he thought he was too weak and was just the same as everyone else. Because of his jealousy, he persuaded Brutus that he could be a better king than Caesar. Brutus thought he needed to kill Caesar for the better of Rome. He also thought that Caesar was too ambitious and prideful of his power. Brutus thought Caesar was going to use power wrongfully and make bad decisions. All of the conspirators helped him. Antony watched them kill Caesar, and was very upset. At the funeral Brutus and Antony spoke.

Brutus believes that everything is good in the world, and that all men are honorable. Due to his inability to distinguish evil, he could easily be manipulated. The naivety Brutus suffers from leads to his fall and ultimately to his death. All of the people he associated himself with, deceives him at one time or another in the play. When Brutus allows Antony to speak at Caesar’s funeral to show him honor, Antony riles up the crowd into believing that the conspirators are evil and provokes them all to want revenge. In result, a war breaks out. In Act II, Scene i, the conspirators send fake letters to Brutus: “In several hands in at his windows throw, As if they came from several citizens, Writings, all tending to the great opinion That Rome holds of his name, wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at..” This was a lie and a trap to get Brutus to join in on the conspirator’s plan because Cassius knew the plan would not work without the help of Brutus. His last blunder, was not so much because of his naive trait, it was just pure desire in Act V, Scene ii. This fault occurs when he starts the battle with Antony without notifying Cassius about it. Brutus realizes it is the time to strike and knows that he must start the battle. There is no time to tell Cassius. This choice, in the end, costs him the war and was the main reason for his suicide. He kills himself because he realizes it

The speeches given by both Brutus and Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar are very persuasive to the audience that they are given to, but rhetorical devices were used in different ways in order for each to have an effect on the people of Rome. In Brutus’s speech, he uses devices such as rhetorical question and antithesis to convince the Romans that he and the conpirators did a good deed by killing Caesar. In Mark Antony’s speech, he sways them to believe that Caesar did not deserve to die, and that the conpirators were the real enemies by using rhetorical devices like rhetorical question and apostrophe. Both speeches were very

Act III Scene II of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare presents the conspiracy against and death of Caesar. By comparing and contrasting Brutus' and Antony's claims, it is evident that Brutus was more effective in his claim.

In the story "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare, there were two speeches given after Caesar's death. Both were attempting to convince the citizens to either forgive or take revenge on the murderer. One of the speakers, Brutus, was the murderer and he was trying to convince a group of citizens by explaining why he killed Caesar. The other speaker, Antony, was not saying to take revenge directly but he subtly tried to make them think about taking revenge.

By his rhetoric, Cassius is able to make Brutus join the conspirators so that Cassius’ personal fear of Caesar becoming king will not play out.

The Two speeches were nice but I like mark antony’s speech a lot better than Brutus's speech because Antony he speaks well of Caesar and well of the conspirators because his plan is to get the crowd to go into a riot and the reason he wants to do that is because he wants to become the new leader of Rome,he thinks that if the crowd turns against Brutus and the conspirators that he will take Caesar´s spot in being the leader of Rome, and the people of Rome, and have the people under his power.