Figurative Language In Julius Caesar

Humanity has become the most dominant species on Earth due to our high intelligence and communication skills but our communication can also be used to easily manipulate and convince. This manipulation is shown when, Mark Antony delivered a deeply passionate and articulate speech at Caesar’s funeral, altering the political dynamics of the Rome in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. Antony uses his words to influence the Roman people. He effectively uses rhetorical devices to prove his point and gain the support of the citizens. Antony also uses the rhetorical device of Pathos to invoke emotion in the crowd and Ethos to use Brutus’ and the conspirator’s reputation against them.

       In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, although Marc Antony is allowed to make a speech at Caesar's funeral, he must not speak ill of either the conspirators or Caesar.  Antony was infuriated with Caesar's assassination, and wants to seek revenge on his killers as well as gain power for himself in Rome's government.  He must persuade the crowd that has gathered that Caesar's murder was unjust, and turn them against Brutus and Cassius.  He tries to stir his listeners' anger, rousing them into action and yet say nothing bad about his enemies.  Marc Antony uses several persuasive devices in his speech, which allows him to successfully convince the citizens of Rome to turn

Antony used the explicit gap in Brutus's speech to turn the people quickly against Brutus. Antony began his speech with a detached tone in lines 77 -79 of his speech by saying, "The evil men do lives after them, the good is oft entered with their bones; so let it be with Caesar." Antony wanted the people to believe he was impartial toward the situation, therefore, he would speak the truth. Antony put Brutus's honor in question by telling how Caesar did and gave so much to the people, and yet the honorable Brutus said he was ambitious. Antony reminded the people Caesar gave the ransom Caesar collected from prisoners he had captured for the public funds, and wept for his people, and how refused a kingly crown three times. On lines 113 - 115 a plebeian said, "Mark ye his word? He would not take the crown, therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious." showing the people

First off, both speakers established their credibility at the beginning of their speech with the use of the persuasive appeal ethos. Brutus asserted his credibility by discussing “any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.” He included this in the speech to prove credibility because Caesar, an honored Roman man, was his good friend. This reveals why he felt he had the right to murder Caesar because he knew him on a personal level. Similarly, Antony also established his credibility, but he captured the trust of the audience better than Brutus was able to. He first makes himself seem like a fair individual by talking about the men that killed Caesar, saying, “For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men--.” This is establishing his credibility by making him appear respectful and polite. This makes the audience

In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, an honorable man, Brutus, is planning to overthrow the soon to be king, Julius Caesar. Brutus is persuaded by Cassius that Caesar is a liar, too ambitious, weak, and not fit to be Rome’s king. Brutus soon believed Cassius, and they and the conspirators made a plan to kill Caesar. After Caesar’s death, Brutus planned to justify his actions of killing Caesar at his funeral in his speech to the people. After Brutus’s speech, the citizens of Rome were all in agreement that Brutus did the right thing for Rome. Brutus then decides to allow Caesar’s best friend, Antony, to speak in honor of Caesar. Antony speaks, and he convinces the citizens that Brutus’s actions were unjust and turned the people against Brutus.

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony attempt to persuade the audience of their position on the death of Caesar. While Brutus explains that his death was necessary, Antony claims that Caesar was not deserving of his demise. However, though Brutus does have ample credibility and taps into the emotional link with his audience to some extent, he does not convey as powerful of an argument as Antony, as he fails to provide sufficient factual evidence. Antony, on the other hand, utilizes logical argumentation with solid evidence, creates an emotional connection with his audience, and maintains credibility in order to support his own argument. Through this, it can be seen that Antony’s use of rhetorical appeals and devices is superior

“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force” according to Adolf Hitler, a master in rhetoric, who was able to sway the people of Germany into electing him as chancellor, and who was able to brain wash an army into creating the biggest mass genocide on the planet. This type of strategy is mimicked by Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Mark Antony’s extensive knowledge of rhetorical strategies, such as appeal to the emotions of the commoners, knowledge of topic and reputation, and syntactical devices eclipse Brutus’ reasoning for killing Julius Caesar and wins over the Roman commoners.

William Shakespeare focuses the play on Brutus’s choices even after the assassination of Caesar. The first bad decision of Brutus was trusting the conspirators, which shows his bad judge of character. This was bad because their intentions for killing Caesar were not for justice. It was only because they were jealous of Caesar and his leadership. They did not like the possibility of Caesar becoming the ruler of Rome. Brutus was the only one who did not kill him out of jealousy, which Antony realizes towards the end of the play when he states, “ This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the rest of the conspirators acted out of jealousy of great Caesar.” (5.5.73-75) Another bad choice Brutus made was letting Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral. Antony was going to tell the truth about everything. Before the funeral Antony tells Octavius’s servant, “There I’ll use my speech to test what the people think of these bloody men’s cruel action..” (3.1.307-309) Antony must have been the most angry about Caesar being gone. It’s not surprising for him to be wanting to tell everyone the

Brutus misjudges and underestimates Antony’s abilities and his audience. When giving his speech, Brutus makes the subject on honor and abstract ideas using logos and ethos but no pathos. The mistake that Brutus makes is that he does not appeal to the crowd’s strong feelings over the death of Julius Caesar. Meanwhile, Antony easily overmatches Brutus because he does not overestimate his audience. Understanding the people, Antony begins in his eulogy appealing to the citizen’s feelings. Because of the lack of emotion in Brutus’s speech, Antony’s highly emotional and extemporaneous speech captures the minds and hearts of the crowd through use of pathos and causes them to become an angry mob that sought to scorn those that took part in the murder of

Emperor Julius Caesar was just killed by Brutus and other conspirators who believed Caesar would be a bad leader for Rome in the future. Mark Antony, one of Caesar’s advisors plans to take down the conspirators as punishment for Caesar’s death. In Antony's funeral speech, Antony uses rhetorical devices and appeals to show his discontent about the conspirators killing Caesar. Antony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral persuades the people of Rome that the killing of Caesar by the conspirators was unjustly in order to seek revenge against the conspirators.

When the subject of killing Mark Antony is brought up, Brutus dismisses it, saying that Antony is nothing but a “limb of Caesar” (166). Ironically, Antony turns out to be much more powerful than they could have predicted. Brutus and the rest of the conspirators are not prepared for the war that Antony will wage in order to avenge Caesar. Another reason why Brutus had disagreed with killing Antony was because the course “will seem too bloody” (163). However, had he decided to murder Antony as well, Brutus could have prevented a battle that took the lives of various Romans, including himself. In his speech, Brutus reminds the conspirators to act guilty of their deeds in order for the common folk to call them “purgers, not murderers” (181). Later on in the play, the common people are the ones who revolt against the conspirators. They do not praise the men but rather turn angry for killing their beloved Caesar. Brutus was quick to reassure the men that there was nothing to worry about, when in reality they should have prepared for the worst. By using irony in Brutus’ speech, Shakespeare helps foreshadow important future

In “ The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, Brutus and his group of conspirators killed Caesar for being too ambitious. At Caesar’s funeral Brutus allows Antony, his best friend to speak. In Antony’s speech he uses rhetorical devices such as pathos, ethos, and logos to convince the crowd Caesar's death was unjust.

In the tragic play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the ruler of Rome, Julius Caesar, is stabbed to death by some of his so-called friends. Brutus, one of Caesar's best friends, is approached by some of the other senators to join the conspiracy to kill Caesar. Brutus weighs his options and decides to join the conspirators for the good of Rome. At Caesars's funeral, Brutus gives a speech to convince the citizens that the conspirators were right to kill Caesar. In contrast, Antony gives a speech to convince the Romans that there was no real reason to kill Caesar. Both characters try to persuade the audience, but they achieve different tones using literary and rhetorical devices. The tone of Brutus' speech is prideful, while the tone of Antony's speech is dramatic and inflammatory.

Antony gave his speech right after Brutus, which was perfect timing, because the people didn’t have to time to fully think about what Brutus said. Brutus told the crowd that he killed Caesar because he was too ambitious, but gave no good evidence of how he was ambitious. Antony proved to the crowd that Caesar wasn’t ambitious by giving three examples. The examples he gave were, “He brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms brought wealth to the city”(III, ii, 87-88), “When the poor cried, Caesar cried too”(III, ii, 90), and “He refused the crown three times”(III, ii, 95-96). After them examples, the people believed suffered a terrible wrong. Antony then showed the crowd Caesar’s cloak and pointed out where Brutus stabbed and said, “For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel. The gods know how dearly Caesar loved him”(III, ii, 176-177). Lastly, Antony read Caesar’s will to the people and told them that Caesar left every individual seventy five drachmas and left them all of his walk ways. After the showing of the cloak and the reading of the will, the people want revenge on the Brutus and the