Comparing Brutus And Mark Antony

John Wilkes booth and Brutus both share many similar characteristics, although they do differ on some key points. Booth even likened himself to Brutus, in his mind he was heroically stopping a tyrant who was oppressing half the country. They both had a group of co-conspirators to aid them in the assassination. Although Booth died thinking he had done a great thing, Brutus ended up regretting it. Brutus was a well-known senator, and Booth a famous stage actor.

Brutus feels guilty for what he has done to Caesar. Because of this, Brutus is able to make a good use of pathos. However, Antony feels strongly about Caesar's death as well. From his point of view, the conspirators are brutal killers. They both have really good reasons behind their words in both of their speeches. After looking over both men's speeches, it is clear that Antony's speech is the overall better one because it is the one the plebeians go on to believe.

Caesar’s words final were “Et tu Brute? Then fall, Caesar!,”which shows how hurt ,he was with Brutus’s actions. During Caesar’s deaths, many co-conspirators surrounded him and as each man stabbed him, he was not surprised by their actions until the very last person, Brutus came and stabbed him, seeing Brutus sent a pang of betrayal through him. Brutus was a person that Caesar had considered a friend and ally, so finding out that he was a part of his assassination plot, it shocked him and he felt deep betrayal that he gave up fighting and died. Although Caesar’s death was horrendous, it is important to remember that Brutus only killed Caesar, to save Rome. Between Cassius’s manipulative peer pressure informing him of the all the negatives that Caesar would bring Rome and the fake letters he received, convincing him to save Rome from the ruling of Caesar, Brutus only acted in the best interest for Rome and its people, which shows his loyalty and patriotism to

The most predominate and important aspect In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare are the speeches given to the Roman citizens by Brutus and Antony, the two main charaters, following the death of Caesar. Brutus and Antony both spoke to the crowd,using the same rhetorical devices to express their thoughts. Both speakers used the three classical appeals employed in the speeches: ethos, which is an appeal to credibility; pathos, which is an appeal to the emotion of the audience; and logos, which is an appeal to the content and arrangement of the argument itself. Even though both speeches have the same structure Antony’s speech is significantly more effective than Brutus’s.

To start off with, Brutus and Antony had some similarities in both of their speeches. For example Brutus and Antony both used dramatic pulses to give the plebeians sympathy for them and to let them think about they were trying to say to them, but

The speeches presented by Brutus and Mark Antony are meant to persuade the people of Rome to conform with their point of observation in regaurds to Caesar's death. Both speaches given use rhetorical divices in an attempt to appeal to the people of Rome. The purpose of Brutus' speech is to justify his reasons for killing Caesar. Brutus uses pathos when appealing to the people's love for Rome and convinces them using logos that Ceasar's death was for the better of Rome.

Now we are on to Mark Antony, unlike Brutus, Mark Antony talks more about Brutus then he did Caesar. Mark Antony repeatedly said "For Brutus is an honorable man". He also talked about giving Brutus the crown "I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse." Also saying "for Brutus, as

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

            Despite these drastic differences, the two orations are similar in a way essential to their effectiveness.  Brutus and Antony demand audience participation by asking questions and making comments they know will spark fire in the hearts of the Roman people.  After providing his explanation for the extermination of a dangerously ambitious tyrant, Brutus questions the people as to whether or not he has offended anyone or if anyone disagrees with his ideals.  He is such an authority figure, though, and he knows no one will stand up to him because the people find safety within the mass.  He dares anyone to defy him, "...I pause for a / reply" (Act III, scene ii, lines 34-5).  The people reply, "None, Brutus, none!" (Act III, scene ii, line 36).  Once he knows he has won the people, Brutus states that he has the same death for himself (the same death as Caesar) when it will benefit Rome.  To this, the people reply with shouts of

Politics come with contrasting opinions. Many people can be for one thing and then for another, thus resulting in a split population. This split population can cause violence in a contrasting belief and uproar from the everyday people can occur. In the tragedy, Julius Caesar, and the real world, political opinions affect the strength of a relationship by completely destroying bonds between individuals.

No contemporaries could have possibly known for sure as to who the victor would be from the conflict that arose between Gaius Julius Ceasar Octavianus, Octavian, and Marcus Antonius, Antony. However, knowing what the ultimate outcome of the struggle was, one may be able to look back into history and offer key reasons as to why Octavian was able to defeat Antony. Ultimately, I believe there was not one key reason for Octavian’ victory. It was a combination of Octavian’s proximity to Rome, his favor with the citizens, and the elimination of his opposition at home that all combined to allow his eventual triumph.

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.

According to the plebeians of Rome: Who understood better the nature of Caesar, Mark Anthony or Brutus? We will compare Brutus' view of Caesars ambition, honor, and love of Rome with Mark Anthony's view of his ambition, honor and love of Rome and how the people reacted to such.

Words contain power. It has the power to change one's attitude and perspective. Words have the power to manipulate and can exploit one’s desire. It has the capability to sway and control the masses. And the one who can utilize this efficiently possesses power that could fulfill their personal needs. Brutus and Antony both use their words in different ways to sway the people of Rome. One talks about the righteousness of his actions while the other condemns it. However, Anthony was able to bring the people of Rome to his side which shows Antony’s speech was more effective than Brutus’s. To see how Antony surpasses Brutus, we have to analyze three main components that make Antony speech better than Brutus.

In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the difference between Antony’s and Brutus’s speeches are: Antony uses repetition, and Brutus uses rhetorical questions, Antony’s speech is defending Caesar while Brutus is defending the murder of Caesar, lastly, Antony is speaking to the emotions of the people of Rome, yet Brutus is speaking to the people’s logic. Antony uses repetition by repeatedly saying something relating to Caesar being ambitious. He says Caesar was ambitious in many different ways. One way was when he says, “Was this ambition?”; another time is when he says, “The noble Brutus hath told you Brutus was ambitious.’ (III.ii.79-80-99) Brutus uses a rhetorical question when he asks, ‘Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” (III.ii.23-24) Asking a question to an audience who cannot respond with disagreement is rhetorical.