How Does Antony Use Ethos In Julius Caesar

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

One example of when he uses the ethos idea (related to ethics or morals) is when he says “O masters, if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong”. Though a use of reverse psychology, this is in a sense telling the crowd to do the opposite of what he is saying and actually stir all the trouble he had just said he doesn't mean to raise. However, the main idea of the text is that it is not morally right for him to do Brutus wrong and cause all the trouble that he does in turn cause. Next, Antony uses the idea of logos (related to logic or reason). He does this by asking questions like “Will you be patient? Will you stay awhile?.......You will compel me, then, to read the will?” He is using the idea of logic here because he already has everyone's full interest and asks questions that he already knows the response to (the logical answer) to make the crowd feel as if they were wanting him to do this all along. Through a use of ethos and logos, Antony continues to pull the crowd of Rome in his

To start his speech, Antony opens with some kind words about Caesar. Antony uses ethos by speaking kindly of Caesar and saying, “He was my friend, he was faithful and just to me” (line 81). Antony appears to be a honest and humble man mourning for his friend. By saying “Brutus is an honorable man” (line 83), Antony places himself on the crowd’s side because up to this point the crowd is in favor of Brutus. Antony has made himself seem more trustworthy which also utilizes ethos. He then continues to speak of Caesar’s great deeds that do not support Brutus’s claim of Caesar’s ambition. For example, Antony tells of Caesar saying, “He brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms brought wealth to the city” (line 83). This is all Brutus wants Antony to say but Antony continues and asks the crowd, “Is this the work of an ambitious man” (line 89)? Antony is using logos to influence the Roman people because he provides a counterexample to the claims of Caesar’s ambition. Furthermore, Antony places doubt in Brutus by saying, “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man” (lines 91-92). This use of logos allows Antony to prove Brutus wrong, even if he does not say it out loud.

First of all, Shakespeare/Antony was able to use logos as well as pathos. Brutus states “The question of his death is enrolled in the capitol” The logic in what he is saying is that his ambitions now lay in the questions in the capitol. Then Antony rebuttals with “He hath brought many captives home to Rome. Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill” He was able to destroy his ambition statement with a single lip movement giving an evidence that he is not ambitious. It was able to sway the people of Rome into believing and relate to some logic of the accomplishments Caesar was able to achieve. Which had brought home many people and reunited families that were once thought to be lost. Brutus was an honorable man and could be trusted, he was

Contrastingly, Antony creates a strong argument by augmenting his credibility and using logical evidence. To make himself more believable, he concedes, “But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world.” By acknowledging that Caesar may have done a little wrong, the audience realizes that Antony has considered both sides of the argument. He elaborates on the noble accomplishments of Julius Caesar, saying, “He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.” By pointing out emphasizing the good that Caesar did, he defies the motives behind his murder.

I feel as if both of the characters did an okay job of using logos. Neither one really stuck out by saying all these facts and using numbers to prove their point. Antony and Brutus are great at using rhetoric but logos seems to be one that is a bit harder for the two of them. When they were speaking, Brutus used his love for the people to win them over and Antony knew how to get to their emotions. Because of this, I don’t think there was an obvious winner in the logos category.

In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar becomes king and is killed for his ways. After the death of Caesar, Brutus and Antony both speak on his death in front of all of Rome. The speeches given by both Brutus and Antony are very persuasive to the audience that they are given to. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are used in different ways in order for each to have an effect on the people of Rome. In Brutus’s speech, he uses Logos to convince the Romans that he and the conspirators did a good deed by killing Caesar. He stated in his speech that “Had you rather Caesar we're living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” To me that shows him giving proof to the people of Rome, naturally saying it's good he died, now we can be free.

Brutus is the first one to speak at the funeral and explains why he killed Caesar. Explaining to the crowd how “[Caesar] was valiant [and he] honor[s] him” for that,“[Caesar] was [too] ambitious,” which is his reason for killing his so-called beloved friend (III.ii.25-26). Brutus sounds logical in his speech, but there are no real facts supporting Brutus’ reason for how ambitious Caesar was. Still, according to Brutus, since Caesar was dangerously ambitious there was “death for [for him being ambition]” (III.ii.26). Brutus’ tone suggest that it was an obvious decision to kill Caesar, yet, again, he fails to prove his words without any facts. Similarly, Anthony uses logos, too, but he is more successful with the use of it. Antony disagrees that Caesar was ambitious and continually questions why Brutus believed that. Antony recalls an event when Caesar had “brought many captives home to Rome” giving a large amount of wealth to Rome, which makes the crowd’s preference change about Caesar (III.ii.86). Antony has proven his statement on how Caesar was not ambitious and what a great deed he actually did for Rome. Antony uses logos in his speech the correct way, by supporting his words with facts. Brutus and Antony both had convincing speeches; Antony ultimately is more successful by presenting real facts in his speech, while Brutus only sounded

Logos can be seen used by Brutus and Mark Antony, However Brutus was able to use logos more efficiently to appeal to the citizens. In particular Brutus used this rhetorical strategy to persuade the people to his side. Brutus’s exploit of logos can be examined as he says “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” (45). From these lines Brutus uses logos as he gives all the citizens a logical reason for why he killed Caesar. Brutus uses logos to explain to everyone that if Caesar was alive everybody would be living as slaves rather than freemen. In contrast to Brutus, Mark Antony uses logos to support Caesar. Mark Antony utilizes logos to disprove the claim made by Brutus about Caesar being ambitious. Mark Antony use of logos

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.

III, Scene II). Brutus basically is saying that he loved Caesar but his love and duty for Rome overruled his love for his friend, and that he saw that Caesar’s selfish and ambitious tendencies would be the death of Rome. Brutus makes this point in his speech in order to give the Roman common folk a logical explanation of his participation in Caesar’s murder. While Brutus accused Caesar of being selfish and ambitious, Antony defends Caesar by claiming that he is selfless and at the same time mocks Brutus in a way that is disguised by a

Antony gave facts and logic so the audience will listen to his speech more. Antony had a longer speech made in a less time. The reason for Antony having a longer speech is because since Brutus no longer cared for Caesar he no longer wanted to work on the speech. Antony's speech grabs the audience and slowly lets off the logic and fact, unlike Brutus. Antony went into detail about his counter to the speech Brutus made by asking questions like, "Is it really ambition to deny the crown thrice?" After asking the question he says what Brutus did wrong and perfectly describe how it wasn't true. Antony's speech is more compelling to that of Brutus because of the ethic, because of the feeling, and because of the logic. The speech of Antony is more creditable to the audience and the commoners because of how it really portrays Caesar and gives reasons why he might of not of been a bad

When Julius Caesar was murdered, many people had to defend themselves and what actions they took. One of those people was Brutus. The other person was Marc Antony. They both delivered very persuasive speeches to the people of Rome. Although Marc Antony’s was overall better written, Brutus’s was more persuasive towards his audience, the people.

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