Fahrenheit 451 Fire Symbolism Essay

The meaning of fire in fahrenheit 451 is to destroy all the books and people's knowledge of the books. Fire represents freedom, peace of mind and destruction. “It was a pleasure to burn”. It means at his job being the one to burn books is a honor.

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

Consequently, Antony, asks the audience, “Was this ambition?”, in which he refers to the event back in Lupercal where Caesar had rejected the offer to be king (III.ii.104). The use of a rhetorical question as part of his speech affects the audience because it influences the audience, and forces them to think about this situation in which whether Caesar was really ambitious or not. Subsequently, it results with the audience questioning Brutus’s authority in this situation, because all this time he has said Caesar was an ambitious begin, which provides reasoning for Antony because if one were to be ambitious in any situation, they would be in a rush to conquer and take control. But this is not the situation, as described by Brutus. This part of Antony’s speech is substantial because it achieves the purpose that Antony had strived for: Gain trust and acknowledgment. Because he has successfully swayed the audience away from Brutus’s false reasoning, and towards his reasoning. Thus, creating an epiphany moment for the audience, because

Antony’s speech allows the civilians to focus in on the positives of Caesar rather than the negatives that Brutus highlighted. Antony spends a portion of his speech focusing in on the claim that Caesar was ambitious, but after disproving that statement, the audience is forced to consider if in

Many people know that Julius Caesar was betrayed and killed by many people who he had thought to be his friends. Some less common knowledge is that he did still have friends and others who stayed loyal to him. One man named Mark Antony was the most loyal of them all, even after Caesar’s death. When he found out Caesar had been killed, he began plotting to get on the traitor’s good sides and make it seem as if he had joined them so that he could convince the citizens to fight against them with him. He deceived the traitors and convinced them to let him speak at Caesar’s funeral, and in this speech he turned the citizens against them using very powerful rhetorical skills. After he had drove the traitors from the city, he took control of the city and led them to victory in a war against the conspirator’s armies. These are three telling examples that prove Antony’s skill and potential as a leader.

In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, a young man named Mark Antony gave a speech to the crowd of Romans directly after Julius Caesar’s assassination. He is disheartened in having to be the one to deliver the tragic news to the crowd, yet he is very persuasive in how he presents his speech. The whole crowd is distraught and confused about why Caesar was murdered, so Antony’s words give them some closure. The whole audience look up to Caesar as a leader and a role model who shows them no weakness. Antony gains their support and loyalty since he moved them with his strong and impressionable words. Antony wanted to inform the people of why Caesar was killed and he used his speech to convince the people to avenge him, but to be open to a new leader. He used a passive aggressive tone towards the conspirators who participated in murdering Caesar. The whole point was to express his love for Caesar and all the good he has done, but also to open up the hearts of the Romans to having a new ruler to guide them. Antony succeeded in having the crowd of loyal followers feel sympathy towards Caesar and enmity towards Caesar’s deceivers.

Speeches are a great tool to win over the hearts of those listening, and for the case in Julius Caesar winning the hearts meant winning Rome. Mark Antony was able to win over everyone while also revealing the true intentions of the killers, and saved Rome from tyranny. Even with Brutus being well liked by the Romans his speech was weak in comparison to Antony's.

Antony took his speech with a sensitive and purposeful approach. Antony starts out by bringing out Caesar's corpse, leading the Romans in shock. Was it a part of the agreement between Antony and Brutus before the funeral? Antony explains what happened to Julius Caesar and uncovers the body for the Romans to see. Antony is physical with the Romans and shows multiple emotions. Antony doesn’t go against the conspirators but makes it very obvious what they did and why they did what they did. Antony's purpose to his speech was to point out that the Romans are very easily persuaded and show just stop and honor Caesar before jumping to a new King. Anthony points out how honorable of a man Brutus is, he also states that Caesar was doing all kinds of good things for Rome but he has too much ambition. Marc Antony shows the Romans Caesars will that he left for the people, this gets the crowd excited, wanting and begging for Antony to read the will. Which Antony does. Was this possibly a plan to persuade the Romans and take the lead of the

          Mark Antony on the other hand shows his speech by conveying his emotions to the audience. Antony wants to show the citizens of Rome who and what the conspirators are. The two speeches, although having two sides that are related to each other. The two speeches suffer from the same tragic reasons. He appealed to the emotions of the citizens of Rome.

Mark Antony: the great speaker During Julius Caesar’s funeral, following the murder of Rome’s great leader, in William Shakespeare's famous play, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2, Roman political figure, Brutus, talks to the Roman citizens (plebeians), who want answers about Caesar’s death. He delivers the citizens an explanation about why Caesar couldn’t be trusted and enrichment about why the people of Rome would suffer with the ambitious tyrant. Mark Antony, another political figure of Rome, detailed why Caesar was a honorable man who shouldn’t have died and wasn’t what Brutus had said of Caesar. Mark Antony gave an explanation that Caesar wasn’t much a tyrant but a man of great dignity and who gave to the people.

Antony gave an emotionally charged speech today at the funeral of Caesar. Antony is a member of the senate and worked closely with Caesar and was not involved in his gruesome murder. He calls the member of the senate that participated in his murder “”[t]he evil that men do lives after [Caesar].”. Antony is dismayed at their actions of stabbing a promising leader to death. Antony mentions that Caesar was a humble man who he “thrice presented... a kingly crown, [w]hich [Caesar] did thrice refuse: was this ambition?” and after which say [y]et Brutus says he was ambitious. Antony contradicts the statements of Brutus in a mournful tone. The Romans rally around him remembering the ruler that they all trusted. The Romans know Antony as a senate member

Mark Antony was very emotional during his speech and stated how Caesar had the roman welfare near and dear to his heart. Mark Antony has an advantage over Brutus because he speaks after and interrupts Brutus' speech. He also used a lot of rhetorical devices to manipulate the crowd. Mark Antony made the plebeians feel good about themselves by pretending to be their friend, but also gave them compliments. His compliments made plebeians feel useful and powerful. He wanted Brutus to be killed for what he did.

In contrast to Brutus' speech, Antony's was brilliant. Even before he began to speak, Antony faced two difficult problems: first was the fact that he conducted it under a set of unfavorable ground rules made by Brutus, and the second, that the throng of citizens was already on Brutus' side. Immediately, Antony is able to do what Brutus failed to do by connecting with the citizens instead of talking above them. Also the mob is not confused as Antony speaks of simple concepts such as his friendship to Caesar. By using tangible shared experiences of Caesar's lack of ambition, such as the refusal of the crown at Lupercal, the mob starts to question whether Caesar was too ambitious or not. After questioning whether all the virtuous things Caesar has done for Rome were ambitious, Antony attacks Brutus by pairing Caesar's ambition with Brutus' honor. This was very clever because it gives the notion to the crowd that if Caesar was in fact not ambitious then Brutus is in fact not an honorable man. All that is left to do is erase the idea of Caesar being overly ambitious, and that is exactly what he does. Everything Antony does builds a rapport with the mob. When he weeps openly the mob can relate to emotion. He also uses the body of Caesar and speaks dramatically about each wound. The will is another tactic in

In conclusion, by using all these devices within his speech to enrage the crowd and to provoke their desire to seek revenge against the murders of their fallen leader. Brutus had underestimated Mark Antony by thinking that he could not speak so eloquently as to bring the crowds to their feet and send them on a hunt for the conspirators and Brutus himself. Mark Antony stayed within the restrictions of the stringent rules laid down by Brutus, but managed to twist his words enough to get his audience to understand his true feelings. Had Antony not made such an incredibly moving speech as he did, the whole course of the story may have been changed and perhaps Caesar's death would never have been