Julius Caesar Eulogies

　　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

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.

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

In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare; two erudite men name Antony and Brutus give an endless speech to the citizens of Rome using the emotions of the citizen to claim power and punish the senate that did the murder of Julius Caesar.In Shakespeareś Julius Caesar, Antonyś speech is more effective than Brutus´s because Antony use pathos to get the citizens to get riled up and question Brutus and hate him for what he did to Caesar .

Antony begins his speech with the dramatic statement, “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” (JC.3.2.75). This quote establishes Antony’s purpose at the funeral: a friend of Caesar who arrives ready to mourn him. This provides irony due to the fact that Antony arrives at the pulpit to unequivocally praise Caesar in order to convince the crowd to believe him. As Antony reaches the end of the first part of his eulogy, he finishes with the statement, “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar” (JC.3.2.107). This quote emphasizes how much Antony loved Caesar and the evident sadness he feels now that he lies dead, for after this statement, he pauses to cry. He does this to gain sympathy from the crowd; to see him saddened by his friend’s death sways the people of Rome against the conspirators, believing that they committed a heinous crime. Antony’s manipulation of the plebeians’ emotions using pathos proves effective as he unites them against the conspirators, causing them to flee from

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?”

In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony gave successful speeches at Caesar’s funeral. Caesar was ambitious to be king which would change Rome from a republic to a monarchy. Because of his urge to be king a conspiracy formed to stop Caesar’s takeover of the government. Brutus was put in charge of the conspiracy, and then helps to kill Caesar. After Caesar’s death Antony promises revenge, and then asks to speak after Brutus at Caesar's funeral. Antony’s speech was more effective than Brutus’s speech because of his use of Pathos, Repetition, and Irony.

Antony speaks of Caesar in a sensitive way, making his audience feel for their once leader being executed. Antony tells his audience that Caesar was not as ambitious as what was portrayed. Antony knew his audience and new how to sneakily persuade the audience to his favor. Antony then shocks the crowd and displays Caesar’s bloody clothing. As Caesar laid before them, Mark Antony began to point to every wound and said who had delivered them. Once Antony had gotten to the wound that Brutus inflicted, Antony declared the wound as “the unkindest wound of them all” (Probst 838). In the later part of Mark Antony’s speech he tells the people of Rome about Caesar’s will. The will had stated that the people of Rome would receive his properties and a large sum of money. The contents of Caesar's will was Antony’s key in turning the people against the conspirators

Brutus also shows his role in power by commanding the people to “be silent, that [they] may hear…” him (Shakespeare III.ii.13-14). As Brutus speaks, it can be seen that he is not speaking within his natural form, iambic pentameter. He is instead using prose, a common speech that is typically not used in his rank of power, but rather in commoner conversation. This shows that due to the unnatural events that have occurred, he is not able to speak in his natural form. Brutus is easily affected by events and conflict more so than other characters in the play. After Brutus is done speaking, he demands, not asks, the crowd to listen, complete opposite to Mark Antony’s start of speech. Mark Antony addresses the people as “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,” putting friends above citizens of Rome (III.ii.75). Antony asks for permission to speak before the crowd. Still speaking in iambic pentameter, he establishes himself as a regular sympathetic citizen of Rome, greatly impacted by the death of Caesar. This angle works as the citizens of Rome as they too start to feel sorry for Caesar, and realize his death was not justified. Antony´s emotional appeal to the crowd is described

Antony uses irony and rhetorical questions constantly throughout his speech at Caesar’s funeral—producing a highly effective and moving point. Brutus and the other conspirators give Antony permission to speak kind words at Caesar’s funeral and nothing more. Antony listens to what they say, speaking praise, particularly of how “Brutus is an honorable man” (III. ii. 81). He uses specific evidence preceding this

Through out his speech he uses repetition to emphasis that Brutus is not honorable, so he can show the crowd that Caesar was not ambitious. He does this by repeating 'honorable man' after stating the facts about what Caesar has done to back up his claim that Caesar was not ambitious. Antony also uses enticement to get the crowd to want to know more; by doing this he makes the death of Caesar personal to the people. The quote "to every several man, seventy-five drachmas" shows that Antony uses the will to show that Caesar has given something to everyone and that makes the death person. From this we can see that Caesar was not ambitious and he was a good

During the “funeral” scene in Act III of WIlliam Shakespeare's play “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” he created two of the most memorable speeches in the English world during Julius Caesar's “funeral.” Speeches made for two very different men named Brutus and Antony. With the use of rhetorical appeals and persuasive techniques in their speeches it created a division of the people on whom to be convinced by whom. Both speeches take a different route of persuasion of the Roman peoples on how they should view the death of the great Caesar.

Kristin Parks Parks 1 Ms. Porter English 20 April 2017 The play “Julius Caesar” is written by William Shakespeare. After Caesar’s death, Brutus speaks at Caesar’s funeral. Although Mark Antony speaks and attacks Brutus’ argument. The purpose of Mark Antony’s speech is to make the people of Rome believe that Caesar was an honorable man.

Although Antony promised that we wouldn’t say anything during his speech that would make Brutus and his accomplice sound like murderers. He told the people that Brutus murdered Julius over jealousy and greed. After Caesar was killed Antony walked where Caesar was and asked Brutus if he could be allowed to speak at the funeral. He promised to say only good things about the men. He did the totally opposite.