Shawna Swann Mr. Beasley English 10 – 2nd 4 November 2015 Julius Caesar “Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”-Aesop. In the play Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare, Brutus and a group of senators have recently killed Caesar, and Marc Antony is furious about it. He seeks revenge, so when Brutus allows Antony to speak at the funeral, he thinks of a plan to avenge his closest friend. (Define logos, pathos, and ethos). In this play, Marc Antony delivers a more convincing speech than Marcus Brutus through his use of pathos, logos, and ethos. First, Antony utilizes pathos when he states, “You all did love him once, not without cause: what cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?” (III.ii.30-31) Here he is stating that Caesar was loved by …show more content…
It is important when making a speech that one considers all sides of a case. Brutus does not know how Antony truly feels. He also depends on his own integrity and honor as his way to justify his actions. While Brutus asks the audience questions, the way he asks them does not allow the crowd to truly think and reflect. When Antony asks questions, he asks them in a manner that provokes deeper thinking in the audience. When Brutus is making his case, he does not give any room for the crowd to consider that if Caesar had been made king, good could have come out of it instead of all of the bad possibilities mentioned. Antony knows why Brutus and the Senates kill Caesar and plays that to his advantage when he mocks them in his speech. While he continuously states as promised that Brutus and the others are all honorable men, he manipulates the situation by throwing in examples of acts that Caesar has done that were enriching and compassionate. He then continues to ask the crowd if what Caesar did was ambitious. One of the examples that he states asking about Caesar is, “You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?”
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
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
Brutus's speech was ineffective in giving them reasons for Caesar's ambition. This gave Antony a large gap to turn the people against Brutus. Brutus told the people to believe him for his honor , and to respect him for his honor, so that they may believe. He is telling them to believe him for his honor and not for the reasons he gives. Brutus repeated many times that Caesar was ambitious but never once said how or why. This left the people with a question in their mind.
Brutus first states, “[Would you rather Caesar] living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead to live a freemen” Then Antony came back with “You all did love him once, not without cause. What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?” After Brutus’ speech, Antony was able to evoke the feeling of the audience and bring them back, before his death and see what they had loved within Caesar before his death. All of his accomplishments were able to evoke the emotions they had before his death and then wanted to actually kill Brutus. In the next Scene, it mentioned a major consequence of the words that Antony had spoken. The famous poet Cinna was killed. However, he wasn’t even involved in the assassination of Caesar. That was how much emotion he was able to evoke in the people in Rome. Although ethos could establish the cold, hard truth, pathos can get under peoples skin and effect them and draw them into your cause. In which case it is Antony's'
Antony says about how Brutus is an honourable man, and how Brutus said that Caesar was ambitious, but Antony talks about all the wonderful things he had done, which don’t seem very ambitious. Antony talks about how even when presented with the crown, the crown of Rome, he had refused three times. ( THREE? I couldn’t even last one, but alright.) and how this was not
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare is the most interesting story we learnt this term. It is juicy because there are huge number of different rhetorical devices in the sentence. Those rhetorical devices include logos, ethos, and pathos which look like the condiments that make the speech in the story logical, credible, and touch reader’s emotion. That’s why people love to read the story once and once more. So it is necessary for us to understand how to make our passage better by using rhetorical devices.
Brutus and Antony use rhetorical strategies in their speeches at Caesar’s Funeral. They both use Ethos, Logos, and Pathos differently to convince the commoners their reasoning is solid. Antony delivers the most effective speech because of his use of inductive reasoning and pathos, while Brutus used ethos the best.
In the first example of Antony’s speech using Pathos to turn the crowd was when he showed Caesar’s body. But to add onto that Antony cries over the body. This is when lots of the crowds started to become hostile to the conspirators. Because not only did he show the body he “shows where each
Today we get the term brutal from a major character in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, written by Shakespeare, we get it from Brutus, who back stabbed Caesar his beloved friend. Antony's speech had an uprising impact on the opinions and minds of the plebeians in the crowd. Antony knew that the diction and the details that he used in his speech would have a certain effect on the crowd of who they sided with. Antony managed to manipulate the crowd without slandering the conspirators, keeping his promise to Brutus, instead of slander he uses examples of logos, pathos, and ethos.
Throughout the play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to articulate the points of many characters. More explicitly the use of different rhetorical strategies can be seen after the death of Caesar. Preceding Caesar's death speeches were given by Mark Antony and Brutus. In these speeches Brutus tried to justify Ceaser death with vague answers, while Mark Antony came to the support of Caesar and questioned why he really had to die. Brutus and Mark Antony's use of logos, pathos and ethos, allowed them both to give effective speeches. Although Brutus gave a strong speech, Mark Antony exceptional use of pathos and ethos provided him a slight edge over Brutus.
This makes the Romans feel furious and loved, because Antony says Caesar cared about them, and they are furious because they believe a great leader was
William Shakespeare’s use of Pathos in Mark Antony’s speech is clearly evident. In order to understand the concept and idea of Pathos, and for it to be effective, one must know what it is. The appeal of Pathos uses words or passages to activate emotions, and strike some sort of feeling in the audience’s body. If written effectively, the appeal of Pathos emits an emotional response from the audience. “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me” (3.2.106-107). Antony elicits both sadness and sympathy from his audience. The death of Julius Caesar, and the use of Pathos is very important in winning over the audience’s appeal. Antony is obviously very angry with what had happened to Julius Caesar, due to the fact that Antony was a good friend with him. “And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would
The use of pathos in Antony’s speech appeals to the emotion of the plebians. In the beginning of his speech, Antony uses the words “friends, Romans, countrymen” (III. ii. 83) to connect with their patriotism. This emphasis of emotion helps convince the audience to side with his views, as well as exemplifies the use of pathos. He mentions that “when the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept” (III. ii. 100) inferring that Caesar was caring because he put Romans before himaelf. Futhermore, in the middle of his speech, Antony tells the audience to bear with him because he was crying. Through showing emotion, the audience sympathizes, and is influecned to believe that Caesar’s murder was a crime.
Brutus, a conflicted senator obsessed with his civic duty, convinces the people of Rome that his motives in killing Caesar were just and noble by rhetoric. Brutus is the only conspirator to have impersonal motives in killing Caesar. In fact, his motives are trying to find the best solution for Rome, and in the end, he must make the hard choice of killing his best friend for his homeland. As early as Brutus’ conversation with Cassius in Act I, Brutus exhibits this deep love and respect for Rome and how this love is conflicting with his love for his friend, Caesar: “[P]oor Brutus, with himself at war, / Forgets the shows of love to other men” (I.ii.51-52). Brutus brings up this internal conflict again when he tells the crowds that although he did love Caesar, he loved Rome and its people more. After Brutus’ murder of Caesar, he realizes that the issue of the public opinion of Rome is of the utmost importance. Because of this love for Rome, Brutus uses rhetoric to persuade these plebeians to approve of him and his cause. When Cassius warns Brutus about “how much the people will be moved / By that which [Marc Antony] will utter[!]” (III.i.252-253), Brutus tells Cassius that letting Marc Antony speak “shall advantage us more than do us wrong” (III.i.261). In these cases, Brutus demonstrates his awareness of