How Is Julius Caesar Effective

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

Throughout Julius Caesar, Cassius proves himself to be an informative character and an important plot summarizer to the audience. He tells the important, and usually, bad news that has arisen in the play. Cassius is a leader to the conspirators in the play, he despises the way that people think of Caesar because he understands himself to be the most powerful. The audience, however, sees Cassius as manipulative and malicious because of how he brainwashed Brutus into killing Caesar and doing all of the dirty work. In his mind, Cassius is the most needed and powerful, but from the outside, he is just mean and sometimes, even over dramatic.

            Antony appeals to his audience's emotions: horror, sadness and anger, to persuade them to his view.  Antony enters with Caesar's body and shows his lamentation over his death, which reminds the plebeians what a horrible deed Brutus committed.

Antony’s speech is full of emotion as Antony explains how Brutus says “Caesar was ambitious...Brutus is an honourable man” (III: ii: 101-102). Antony uses pathos as Brutus and the conspirators are the only people that thought Caesar was ambitious. Irony is shown as Brutus is called honorable, yet Antony was using it as a way of mocking him and later showing how Caesar didn’t deserve to die. Antony talks about how Brutus was “Caesar’s angel,” and how much “Caesar loved Brutus:” (III: ii: 183-184). Antony explains this part in pathos as Caesar loved Brutus, yet Brutus betrayed him and killed him. Antony also used logos to show how Caesar didn’t hate others, and how everyone was loved by Caesar. To show how much Caesar loved Rome, Antony explains how Caesar “left the walks, private arbours, and new planted orchards,” to give back to the people that showed appreciation and respect (III: ii: 248-250). Antony uses pathos to convince the plebeians that Caesar tried to make Rome better and brought many achievements to the people. Logos is also shown as Antony explained all the good fortune Caesar left for Rome, and how Caesar will never be forgotten. Mark Antony persuades the Plebeians to show how Caesar did everything to help Rome’s people yet, they conspired against

It was, however, the most apparent example of repetition in the epistrophe, “Brutus is an honourable man” (III, ii, 84, 89,) that outlines the heart of Antony’s speech – that the conspirators were, in fact, not the least bit honourable in their murder of Caesar. Antony uses the epistrophe again to illustrate the other major concept in his speech; Caesar wasn’t ambitious – he didn’t deserve to die. “Brutus says he was ambitious.” (III, ii, 88, 96, 100). Through the heavy-handed use of repetition in Antony’s eulogy to Caesar, he delivers a strong message to the crowd. More importantly, however, such repetition was able to compel the audience into believing his words instead of Brutus’.

　　By keeping his listeners thoroughly engaged, Antony is able to further develop on his purpose by utilizing diverse rhetorical devices. Near the beginning, he makes effective use of parallelism to list Caesar’s selfless deeds, like “when that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept”, which gives the effect that the list is so long that Antony cannot describe it in unique detail. Additionally, his parallel repetition of “Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man” serves as sarcasm. By repeating each good action with these two lines, Antony is getting the audience to contrast Caesar’s endless good deeds with Brutus’s repetitive and conflicting argument. Further on in the speech, Antony uses proslepsis somewhat obviously to reveal Caesar’s will to the people. He tells them that he found “a parchment with the seal of Caesar...tis his will”, yet quickly stops himself from telling anymore. Therefore, the audience is intrigued by the will and its mention reengages any listeners who

The speech of Mark Antony made directly after Julius Caesar’s death uses ethos, pathos, logos makes him the better persuasive speaker to the crowds. In the speeches between the two men both have different views about Julius Caesar. Despite the differences, they make the speeches to get the fellow Romans on their sides. Their opposing views do ignite the crowd, but it is the speech of Mark Antony that persuades them. Brutus does succeed to get the people on his side, but it is the passionate speech that incites the crowd to join Antony.

“He was my friend, faithful and just to me”, a quote that gives a sense of the ethical or an ethos factor that reoccurs throughout the speech. This quote builds Caesars character as well as displays Antony’s attempt to create feeling of sorrow upon the minds of the people listening. Antony almost fully achieves hatred for Brutus and the other conspirates as he again points out the betrayal of Brutus, making his character uncaring, a trait a ruler should not bestow, by saying “how dearly Caesar loved him”, this quote is referring to the love Caesar had for Brutus but love was not returned to Caesar, only hatred and pain. The love Caesar was betrayed with by Brutus allows emotions of hatred and sadness to fill the crowd, Antony does this many times in his speech.

In addition, Antony utilizes verbal irony as he tells the crowd he does not want to ignite a rebellion, for that would “wrong such honorable men” (III.ii.126). Brutus prides himself on his honor even though he killed Caesar, and Antony finds this almost laughable. Clearly, Antony does not believe Brutus is honorable, and the audience begins to believe this too, as he takes away Brutus’ credibility and builds up his own. His inflection makes the statement seem preposterous, and it begins to change the meaning of “honorable,” mocking Brutus’ initial statements. This careful application of irony reveals the malice of Brutus’ actions, thus highlighting the injustice of Caesar’s death.

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.

By contrast Antony from Julius caesar heavily relies upon the power of language and its ability to exploit the human flaw that is emotion, and by doing so manipulate ones perception through a emotionally (pathos) driven argument. Antony has a greater understanding of the people and knows that they are passionate people who will be swayed by such talk. Also Antony unlike Brutus uses iambic pentameter this shows that he has a higher authority which would make the audience listen more carefully. After each argument Antony produces in Caesar’s defense, he uses irony through the lines “But Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man”. This line is repeated a number of times creating an anaphora. As well as slowly dismantling Brutus’

He wanted the crowd to turn away from Brutus and Cassius. In Antony’s Eulogy speech, Mark Antony attempts to undermine the conspirators by persuading the citizens of Rome to join his side by showing that Caesar was not ambitious but a great leader through the use of rhetorical appeals like pathos and ethos, repetition, and rhetorical questions.

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

Antony’s speech tells the citizens that they should not disapprove of Brutus and his actions, however they still should remember Caesar for the great leader and war hero that he was. He thought that Caesar had no wrongdoings and they didn’t give him a chance. The crowds reaction was to immediately go and kill the conspirators. Inside Antony’s speech, he uses three different examples of rhetorical devices. He uses repetition, pathos, and ethos.