Julius Caesar Rhetorical Analysis

After killing Caesar in the previous scene, one of the leading conspirators, Brutus, gave permission to Antony a close supporter of Caesar to speak at his funeral. Brutus took the stand first to justify Caesar’s death was necessary to conserve the Roman Republic. “If then

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

The play Julius Caesar written by Julius Caesar illustrates the murder of Julius Caesar by his Senate and the events that happened after his death. The famous funeral speeches given by Mark Antony and Brutus give the Roman people two different sides of Julius Caesar and his leadership using ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is the credibility of the speaker, logos is the logic or reasoning, and pathos is the emotion of the audience. Mark Antony delivers the most effective speech in the play as he appeals to these three elements in his speech in a more convincing manner than Brutus.

In act three of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Caesar is murdered by people he believed he could trust. When a funeral is held for him, Antony and Brutus, the two people he trusted the most, speak. After Brutus gives his speech, Antony is allowed to give his own. Antony’s funeral speech creates a sense of doubt that penetrates through the effect of Brutus’s speech on the audience in order to make his own speech more effective and rally up the citizens.

When Antony tells the crowd about how much Caesar loved Brutus he was trying to change the crowds perspective of the type of leader Brutus actually is. In act three Antony says, “How dearly Caesar loved him.” , referencing Brutus the crowd began to get angry at Brutus. Why would someone kill their best friend when the best friend only loved them dearly. The crowd saw this and began to understand where Antony was coming from. Antony using ethos paid off because he was able to change the personnel image of Brutus. Antony uses logos when he brings out Caesar’s will.

In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony was known to be a noble man, but soon after he conveyed the speech to the plebians it all changed from there. Brutus and the conspirators killed Caesar because they felt if Caesar stayed leader he would bring Rome to a down fall. During Caesar’s funeral, Brutus made a mistake of letting Mark Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral. At this point, his mistake allowed Antony to turn on him and the conspirators and get the plebeians to turn on the conspirators. Mark Antony uses the word ¨honorable¨, the will, and the body of Caesar as a way to persuade the plebeians to turn against the conspirators.

“Antony utilized the crowd and used reverse psychology on them.”(Julius). He did this by using Caesar’s will. He explains to the crowd they should think twice if they heard what the will said, but he does not read it to them. By doing that, the crowd begs for the will to be read to them. This gives the crowd a false sense of authority over Antony. He persuades them to believe that Caesar did not deserve to be killed and that Brutus and the conspirators are the real enemies in this tragic situation. During his speech, He quotes, “Brutus is an honorable man.” numerous times. Each time he stated that, he said in a sarcastic tone. Brutus is not actually an honorable man. Antony definitely had an advantage by presenting his speech after Brutus. By presenting his speech second, he had the opportunity to rebuttal and counter his opponent's

While reading the book The Tragedy of Julius Caesar it shows where many lines and the points people are trying to make during the story none as significant or as noticeable as the speech Mark Antony gives in Act III section II. In this scene he shows high usage of rhetorical devices using things such as nostalgia, repetition, and delayed sentencing. Using these rhetorical devices he changes ideas of the people from happy for Caesar’s death too convincing them to try and attack the conspirators. With theses rhetorical devices he draws a lot of rhetorical appeals from logos, and pathos to really convert peoples believes. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Antony uses irony, eulogy, and sarcasm to show Caesar was a great man and how they need revenge for Caesar.

Antony has a difficult task ahead of him. The conspirators don't trust Mark Antony because of his friendship with Caesar. He is allowed to speak at Caesar's funeral by Brutus, but only after Brutus, a speaker of great respect , has spoken first to "show the reason of our Caesar's death. " It is made clear to

The man everyone looked up to has been swarmed and stabbed by people he thought he could trust. The trust he put into his men is what ultimately doomed him. This is what happened to Caesar, in the play Julius Caesar, when he refused to look at the letter that concerned him. He was being so honorable by thinking of his people first, but that was all just a ploy to murder him, to get him outside. Within the play Julius Caesar, Cassius pulls people onto his side to get rid of the leader Caesar because he is too ambitious. When he convinces Brutus to come to the dark side, they slaughter Caesar, Brutus being the one to deal the final blow. Antony, the only one Caesar could truly trust, was going be killed as well if not for his wit and intelligence. He used rhetoric to gain some of their trust which allowed him to be able to live and speak the truth to the people of Rome at Caesar’s funeral. Antony’s funeral speech consists of passive aggression, logos, and ethos, along with a few small things sprinkled within.

Antony’s purpose of his oration at Caesar's funeral is to show the people just how cruel the conspirators were and convince them to get revenge and revolt. Antony’s tone in this is vengeful. Antony’s bias of his oration is he may have a hidden motive behind mourning Caesar's body. Antony was Caesar's number one and top friend Antony had all the perks of Caesar's power just like caesar when Caesar died he didn’t get any more perks he is selfish so he's gonna take it back by killing brutus. Antony uses all three rhetorical techniques but most

Just witnessing the death of his friend he was very hesitant. But he listened to the group’s reasoning. The next plan was to go out to the market square and explain everything, and have a funeral for Julius. Antony wanted to speak at the funeral, but Cassius thought it was a very bad idea because he could potentially mess up everything, Brutus thought that it was a good deed to let him speak. So to compromise they have a set of rules for Antony when he spoke so it would keep the conspirators safe from harm. “Mark antony here take you Caesar’s body / You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, / But speak all good you can devise of Caesar, / And say you do’t by our permission: / Else shall you not have any hand at all about his funeral and you shall speak in the same pulpit where to I am going / After my speech is ended.” (3. 2. 244-251) So what he said was “You will take Caesar’s body, but in your speech you can’t blame us. But speak all the good things you can about Caesar, say that we gave you permission to speak: Or you may not take part in this funeral, and you will speak in the same place as I when I am done.” Then what happened was that the funeral went as planned until it was Antony’s turn to speak. He followed the rules but in that he found a loophole in the rules, so by that he expressed his anger and hatred. Soon turning the plebeians on the

After some manipulative persuasion from Cassius, Brutus decides to join the conspirators. He compares Caesar to a “serpent’s egg”, which if hatched, could “grow mischievous”, and therefore should be killed “in the shell” (2.1.36-38). Even though Brutus is uncertain of Caesar’s potential tyranny, he genuinely believes that it is noble to assassinate Caesar. When the conspirators first meet, Cassius, aware of Mark Antony’s shrewdness, wants to kill Antony along with Caesar. However, Brutus makes the mistake of letting Antony live, as he wants them to be called “sacrificers”, not “butchers”, and “purgers, not murderers.” (2.1.189-203). The noble Brutus does not want to do additional harm, because he is committed to maintaining his prestige. Killing Antony would bring controversy to the nobility and honorability of his reputation. This is a poor decision, because Antony is an immense threat to the conspirators. Following Caesar’s death, Antony is allowed to speak in Caesar’s funeral. Cassius warns Brutus about Antony’s ability to change people’s minds, but Brutus insists that Antony “speaks by leave and by permission,” and that “It shall advantage more than do us wrong.” (3.1.271-274). Brutus believes it is a noble gesture to allow Antony to speak in the funeral. However, Antony seizes this opportunity to turn the people against the conspirators. This is a

He came to the funeral after Marcus Brutus with Caesar’s body cover with blood. By that time the mob is persuaded by Brutus and no longer love Caesar. Antony will try to get the mob back to his side so he can get his revenge for Caesar. He started his speech by saying “I came to bury Caesar not to praise him. The evil that men do live after them. The good is oft interred with their bone.” By saying that, it hook the audience to make them want to know what Antony want to say about Caesar.