Comparing Antony And Brutus Speeches In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Antony uses an abundance of pathos in his speech. One example is: “Caesar was my friend and just to me” (III, ii, 86). Using pathos helps the audience make connections with him. He also reads Caesar’s will which makes the people feel guilty about turning against Caesar during Brutus’ speech. He shows them the stabs wounds on Caesar’s coat and names which conspirator stabbed him. The Roman people now feel pity and anger towards the conspirators. Overall, Antony was smart with his words and won over the Roman people better than

After Brutus finishes his speech, Antony speaks about his opinion on the issue; unlike Brutus, Antony acts slyly and communicates a very manipulative tone to persuade the Romans to rebel. Because of Antony's use of parallelism, he creates vivid reasoning for his speech. He states, “ I come here to bury Caesar, not to praise him” (III.ii.44). By using this device, he shows the people of Rome that he isn't praising Caesar, he is putting the leader to rest. This particular line creates a very manipulative tone, because his speech is all about what great this Caesar has done and how he wants to rebel against the conspirators. Further more, Antony uses a lot of irony to slyly get his point across. One example that he uses throughout the speech is “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is a honorable man” (III.ii.44). Because of the repitition of this ironic statement, the meaning of it changes and intensifies. At first, his tone was sincere, but as the speech progresses, you can see his sarcastic tone increases. Antony does this because he has to use this device to surpass the regulations of Brutus, as well as make the romans listen. Lastly, he uses personification to give life and further meaning to a word. Early in the speech, Antony says, “The evil

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 William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, two speeches are given to the people of Rome about Caesar's death. In Act 3, Scene 2 of this play Brutus and Antony both try to sway the minds of the Romans toward their views. Brutus tried to make the people believe he killed Caesar for a noble cause. Antony tried to persuade the people that the conspirators committed an act of brutality toward Caesar and were traitors. The effectiveness and ineffectiveness of both Antony's and Brutus's speech to the people are conveyed through tone and rhetorical devices.

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.

Antony’s use of pathos was innumerably better than Brutus’. Antony connects to the citizens of Rome and allows for them to empathize with him. However, though Brutus provides emotions in his speech, he does not provide the same connection and his attempt to appeal to his audience’s emotions falls short. Antony demonstrates how strongly he feels by weeping over the body of Caesar. Brutus, however, reveals his emotions by plainly stating that he feels remorse, thus preventing the Romans from empathizing with him.

Throughout the two men’s speeches, both try to invoke emotions in the people of Rome. Brutus attempts this first and is ultimately less effective than the pathos Antony uses throughout his speech. Brutus states, “ If there’s anyone in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar’s, I say to him that my love for Caesar was no less than his. If, then, that friend demands to know why I rose up against Caesar, this is my answer: it’s not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” In this statement, Brutus is directing the emotion towards himself instead of the people. He isn’t allowing the people to feel for themselves; this is not an compelling way of using pathos. Antony uses a different method that creates a bigger rise out of the crowd. He does this by saying,

Brutus used repetition the most to influence the crowd. He states about Caesar’s “tears, love, and ambition.” Brutus also asked the audience rhetorical questions that they could not answer, and he would take their silence as if they were agreeing when in reality they were probably too scared to answer. Antony also used repetition to sway the crowd. He often pointed out that “Brutus was an honorable man” and he said it with more and more sarcasm each time. Antony also took advantage of the crowd and used reverse psychology on them. He used Caesar’s will as a tool to accomplish this. He told the crowd about Caesar’s will, telling them that they would think twice if they heard what was in the will, but he doesn’t read it to them. That made them beg for him to read it to them. Not only does this get them to do what he wants, it also give the crowd a false sense of authority over Antony. Also, he asks the crowd if he can come down and join them, saying they give him permission, again giving them that sense of authority. Antony, in addition to the will, used Caesar’s body as a prop in his speech. He created a sympathetic attitude towards Caesar. The other pathos appeal Antony used was the contrast that he showed between the beginning and end of his speech. He opened, saying he was only to “bury Caesar, not to praise him” yet towards the end he had accomplished his goal in making the crowd feel sorry for Caesar and wanting to

Brutus and Antony's speeches were both very different. Brutus tried to get the people to understand that Caesar was corrupt and wasn't the right leader so they would forgive him for killing Caesar, while Antony grieved and began a mutiny against Brutus and the other killers. They both did show their affection towards Caesar and what a great friend he was to them.

After, the death of Julius Caesar a funeral is held and both Brutus and Mark Antony give speeches during the service,and in both speeches the men attempt to persuade the Roman public to support them. When, both speeches are compared the more persuasive speech is Mark Antony’s, and that is because of his use of rhetorical appeals and little to no logical fallacies.

During the second scene of the third act in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, both Brutus and Mark Antony deliver speeches to the public at Caesar’s funeral. Both of them use rhetorical devices and other strategies to try to convince the crowd to support them. In the end, Antony was victorious. He even managed to rile up the crowd enough to cause them to riot against Brutus! Why did Antony win though? The speeches are pretty similar, right? That is true, but they are also quite different as well. Just looking at the two speeches, most wouldn’t notice the different tactics involved. However, there were indeed some very important tricks used to sway the audience to support Antony instead of Brutus.

The citizens also want to hear Antony speak of the situation and when he lies about having Caesar’s will, it makes the reader wonder his real reasoning behind speaking out. Antony’s speech was superior to Brutus’s because he manipulated the citizens into believing things that aren't true and by using different rhetorical devices such as logos and pathos. ANALYSIS OF BRUTUS’S SPEECH

Which makes Brutus' speech backfire on him. What Antony says makes Brutus seem like the killer, which will in turn get the crowd to go against him.

The first speech we hear is that of Brutus. In his speech he aims to

In my opinion, I think that Mark Antony's speech was better delivered. This is because Brutus's way of speaking isn't very attention grabbing. Brutus is also pretty simple-tounged. On the other hand, though, Mark Antony is a powerful speaker who delivers the emotions he feels to the listeners. While they were giving their speeches, I noticed that Brutus was not as lively and emotional while delivering the speech to the listeners like Antony was. The main idea of Antony's speech was to explain to the people why he killed Caesar and to convince them on the long-run. Because Antony's goal was to convince the listeners about why he killed Caesar, he made sure that he explained the reason why he did kill him but his attitude was charming during