Julius Caesar Rhetorical Analysis

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

In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the dictator of Rome is assassinated by his senators. Among which was one of his closest advisors, Brutus. Another friend of Caesar, named Marc Antony, hears of this assassination and is grief-stricken. Together the two men speak to the citizens of Rome about their views of what is right. Firstly Brutus speaks, soon after Antony recites his side of the story. Although the crowd is swayed by both men, Antony is able to maintain the support of the people with his ideas and values. Antony was the better speech for a varying amount of rhetoric he used, among which are pathos and juxtaposition. Brutus uses these as well, but not as adequately.

Many people know that Julius Caesar was betrayed and killed by many people who he had thought to be his friends. Some less common knowledge is that he did still have friends and others who stayed loyal to him. One man named Mark Antony was the most loyal of them all, even after Caesar’s death. When he found out Caesar had been killed, he began plotting to get on the traitor’s good sides and make it seem as if he had joined them so that he could convince the citizens to fight against them with him. He deceived the traitors and convinced them to let him speak at Caesar’s funeral, and in this speech he turned the citizens against them using very powerful rhetorical skills. After he had drove the traitors from the city, he took control of the city and led them to victory in a war against the conspirator’s armies. These are three telling examples that prove Antony’s skill and potential as a leader.

Mark Antony appeals to the audience by using a pathos strategy to make the audience feel something. In his speech he talks about how great of friends he was with Caesar and how devastated he is at his death. Caesar uses language like, “He was my friend” and “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar” to make the audience feel sympathetic towards him. He makes his pathos approach very clear when he starts to relate to the citizens by saying how he knew how much Caesar loved them and how they loved him too. This pathos strategy strengthens Antony’s appeal by making himself out to be an equal of the citizens rather than a higher authority.

Brutus and Antony’s speeches appeal to the audience through ethos, pathos, and logos. Brutus’s speech contains ethos, an appeal to ethics, pathos, an appeal to emotion, logos, employs reason or logic. His speech also contains rhetorical question and parallelism. In Antony’s speech he uses ethos, pathos, and logos along with repetition.

Antony uses pathos in his speech to make the people of Rome angry, furious, and sad, because Caesar did not deserve to die and he was an innocent man. Throughout his entire speech he uses verbal irony and repetition to get his point across. Antony tells the crowd that he is coming to give a speech about his beloved friend Caesar. As he continues with his speech he get more and more sarcastic. Before Anthony's speech, Anthony enters with Caesar's body so show how sad he is because of his death. Which makes the people of Rome realize what horrible thing Brutus did. In his speech he talks about how Caesar was a great leader. He tells them that Caesar cared about Rome and its citizens very deeply.

In the Tragedy Of Julius Caesar, Caesar was soon to be crowned king, after defeating Pompey. Caesar becoming king wasn’t the best idea and interest in some of the people eyes in Rome because they don’t think he is worthy enough to hold that type of power. Cassius was mad at the idea of Caesar becoming king, so he began to plot a plan to kill Caesar. His plan to kill Caesar involved a good friend of Caesar, Brutus and other loyal men and conspirators to make his plan work. So Cassius began plotting by convincing Brutus to join him and it worked, which was all Cassius needed to get close to Caesar. When the day actually arrives for Caesar to be crowned king their planned worked as Casca was the first to stab Caesar, and Brutus being the last person to stab Caesar and to hear the last words spoken from Caesar. After all this went down, Brutus went and spoke to the crowd and explained what happened and why they killed Caesar before being crowned king. The crowd agreed at first about Caesar needing to be killed until Antony spoke which changed everything and the crowds reaction. Now that the crowd had heard Antony, they want to kill the conspirators and who ever had a part in Caesar’s death. So now that you know the moral of “ Tragedy Of Julius Caesar” I will now discuss some examples of ethos, logos, and pathos.

In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare’s characters Brutus and Mark Antony present eulogy speeches to the Roman masses. Brutus attempts to comfort the people by using logos and explaining that Caesar deserved his death as he became a tyrant. Antony, on the other hand, employs pathos when pointing out that Caesar was a just man and ruler who did not deserve death. Both of the men use ethos in their speeches to appeal to their listeners but Antony is far more successful in his application of this rhetorical strategy which sets the pace for what happens following the two speeches.

Throughout The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, multiple characters deliver persuasive speeches to change a character's mind, including Marc Antony’s funeral speech. His intention was to turn the people against the conspirators in a luring manner, so the Romans will not want to follow the conspirators rule. Antony convinces the crowd that Caesar should not have been murdered, but reasoned with and Brutus is not honorable. Marc Antony’s funeral speech was crafted by the playwright Shakespeare, who developed Antony’s persuasive speech using: verbal irony, repetition, ethos, and pathos.

To begin with, Antony is wanting to uncover the truth to the people but also keeping his word. Antony is delivering the message to the people, keeping the promise of what he was told and allowed to say for Caesar’s death. He speaks because he is authorized to by consent of the conspirators, and to mourn his dear friend Caesar. Antony’s goal was to hint at the crowd what had actually happened, and for the conspirators that were listening to feel ashamed about what they’ve done. The speech was intended for the population of Rome to hear, to know the truth, not to convince but to let them know that even the so called “honorable men” in their city had done wrong to one of their own. The audience is quite in between with being hostile and agreeable as many are still deceived by how Caesar had previously acted. However at one point he had shown himself to the people of Rome that he had rejected the crown approximately thrice. As he keeps his word of not praising Caesar, “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them;” (III, ii, 71-72). Then gradually turning the conspirators away from support of the conspirators. For example “He hath

Throughout the play Julius Caesar Antony, Caesar’s loyal servant, has become a bigger and bigger factor in the play. He really breaks out in Act III. In Act III, Brutus and others have killed Caesar, but yet leaves Antony unharmed because he seems harmless. Antony wants to show the public Caesar’s body and say a funeral speech. Brutus, trusting Antony, allows him to do so, but under some certain terms. Antony must speak good of the conspirators and not blame them. Antony uses logos and ethos, irony, and finally establishes ethos to turn the crowd away from Brutus.

Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe.” (Act 3; scene 2). He uses his reputation as being an honorable and noble Roman for the crowd to believe what he has to say; he believes the people should listen to him because of his reputation. Antony has several ethos, but he also uses one in the beginning of his speech much like Brutus does, but rather states

Antony is introduced to us as one of caesar's most trusted and later revealed truest friend this loyalty can be seen as one of the most important leadership traits that antony has. Him being able to stay loyal to his friend even in the worst of circumstances. However even though his friendship is a vital role and a fundamental reason that he is put in the spotlight it does not cement him as a key influential leader. The trait that establishes Antony as a