Julius Caesar Propaganda

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'

One of the rhetorical appeals that Antony used to sway the crowd against the conspirators was pathos. Pathos is an appeal using emotion. In line 20 Antony begins to use pathos when he states, “Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.” This quote is able to sway the crowd against Brutus and Cassius by showing what kind of good person Caesar was. He was compassionate to people. This quote shows what kind of good leader by helping out the poor. He knew what they were going through so he cried along with them. This quote is able to sway the citizens of Rome because it shows the opposite of what Brutus said about Caesar. If he would

“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.

In the play Julius Caesar written by the whimsical, sophisticated William Shakespeare both beloved Brutus and noble Antony deliver their most thorough attempts to win over the delicate citizens of Rome into what they believed was correct. Brutus gave it a valiant effort in trying to convince the citizens that murdering the noble Caesar was the best thing to do for the people. In the end Brutus’ effort was not enough because Antony was able to turn every Roman against Brutus and the other deceitful conspirators during his speech with his extraordinary use of logos, pathos, and ethos.

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” (Shakespeare. III. 2. 73). This is one of the most popular quotes of Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, and it still prevails today. Throughout history, Shakespeare has written many tragedies, this one being one of the most popular. This tragedy is about an all-mighty Roman leader who is expected to turn into a ambitious dictator once crowned. Because of this, a group of important men conspire to kill him for many different reasons, which leads to unexpected turns and conflicts in the plot. This includes a speech by one of Caesar's closest confidants, Antony. His speech persuades Rome to turn against the conspirators and creates more conflict throughout the play. In William Shakespeare’s

“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.

Shakespeare reveals a similar notion to Machiavelli in relation to authority and leadership through the character of Antony. Antony uses a similar strategy to Machiavelli and Borgia by effectively manipulating Brutus and the plebeians for his own benefit. Shakespeare set Julius Caesar in Ancient Rome to portray the concerns prevalent in Elizabethan England. This era consisted of a patriarchal hierarchy which created the opportunistic man and ability to take greed, similar to what Antony embodies. After Caesar’s death Antony possesses the role of the true Machiavel through his appearance of virtue. Antony differs to Machiavelli’s attitude as he explores this value through revenge motives. Antony manipulates the conspirators through the physical action of “first, Marcus Brutus, I will shake with you”. This is symbolic as it aligns Antony with Brutus thus initiating his manipulative nature. Antony’s funeral speech highlights the appearance of virtue to manipulate the plebeians due to his position of authority. The use of repotia in “but Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man” illustrates the manipulation and raises doubt in the crowd’s mind. Antony is able to weaken Brutus’ argument and eventually this

Antony a friend of Caesar in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is great at manipulating a crowd full of Romans and Plebeians to believe that Caesar was a rood, ambitious, and honest man. Antony uses verbal irony, emotion, relationships with the crowd, and props to manipulate the Romans to agree with himself. The first part of Antony’s longest and most memorable speech not only establishes a relationship with the Plebeians, but his speech contains verbal irony. Antony uses the repetition of the words ambitious and honorable to describe Caesar, Brutus, and other senators. Antony starts by making the words important and powerful, but throughout his speech he gives the words a less literal definition.

Today, people are frequently seen trying to persuade other individuals to change the way they feel about one thing or another. Whether it is a commercial wanting a person to buy their product or a politician trying to appeal to the life of regular citizens in order to get someone’s vote; propaganda is used daily. Propaganda is a form of control used by people in order to manipulate the way a group of people or an individual thinks and/or reacts. There are a variety of techniques that a person can utilize to be able to get the result they desire. In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, propaganda is seen all throughout the play.

He tells them his reasons for killing Julius and his person opinion. Moreover, Antony’s speech was to honor Julius and prove that Brutus was wrong. For example, Brutus repeatedly referred to Julius as “ambitious”. Antony’s point of the speech was to show that his friend Julius was not

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

Throughout his speech to the people after the assassination he tells his audience that “Brutus is an honorable man” (III, II, 87) and continues on telling them how Brutus found it just to kill Caesar because “Caesar was ambitious” (III, II, 78). In this context, ambition means greedy and or power hungry, meaning Caesar was ultimately a bad man and a bad ruler and that is exactly what Brutus wants the people to think. However, Antony is not convinced, over the course of his speech he hints at the cruel details of the murderous deed that was committed and never fails to restate that “they all [are] honorable men” (III, II, 83). That being said, there is no researchable proof to back up the theory that repeating a certain thing over and over again makes it any truer, but it does serve its purpose here by never failing to remind the plebeians of who is really at fault for the murder of Julius

William Shakespeare, one of the most profound writers in all of history, skillfully used the character of Mark Antony in his play, Julius Caesar, in order to verify true the theme that loyalty and respect are two of the most extremely convincing tactics. He demonstrates the power of speech as he is manipulating words in order to prove a certain point in the speaker’s favor, whoever that may be. Mark Antony was a man who enjoyed spending the majority of his time at extravagant parties and receiving everything he wanted at his sudden demand. Shakespeare created Antony to be an expert in speech manipulation, which ended up making Julius Caesar to be what