Julius Caesar Speech Analysis

In Brutus’s speech he talked about how he loved Rome more than Caesar. Brutus was very gullible, stoic, and also easily persuaded. Throughout his speech he uses fallacies. One example of a fallacy he uses is the either/or. “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men“ (III, i, 22-24). This makes the Roman people believe that either they going to be slaves or free men. One other thing Brutus uses are logos and ethos. He says, “As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him” (III, i, 24-27). In that quote he tries to

    The play Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare in 1599, is about the murder of Julius Caesar, a great Roman general who conjured many lands, and helped to form the Great Empire that we read about today. Caesar was to be crowned king of Rome, but he was savagely murdered by a group of conspirators before he received the crown. After Caesar's brutal murder, Brutus a very honourable Roman, who helped in in Caesar's death, and Mark Antony, one of Caesar's closest friends, gave speeches at Caesar's funeral, trying to convince the crowd to agree with them and turn against the other. Brutus and Antony both made convincing speeches, but Antony came out on top, because Antony let the people make up their own mind, by appealing to their emotions.

In Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar, Portia uses repetition, rhetorical questions, and parallelism in order to persuade Brutus to tell his secret. Portia uses repetition to get Brutus’ attention and to show him how much she wants to know the secret. Pleading, Portia urges, “I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus. / Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus” (2.1.301,302). By using repetition she gets Brutus’ attention so he knows she is talking to him. If Portia did not repeat his name, Brutus would not be as inclined to listen to her. With Portia stating his name more than once he is focused on her and knows that what she is saying is vital. In this part of Portia’s speech she uses pathos. She persuades Brutus by bringing up their

In William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, two speeches are given to the people of Rome about Caesar's death. In Act 3, Scene 2 of this play Brutus and Antony both try to sway the minds of the Romans toward their views. Brutus tried to make the people believe he killed Caesar for a noble cause. Antony tried to persuade the people that the conspirators committed an act of brutality toward Caesar and were traitors. The effectiveness and ineffectiveness of both Antony's and Brutus's speech to the people are conveyed through tone and rhetorical devices.

In the Tragedy Of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Anthony both presented a speech to the citizens of Rome. Brutus argued why his actions to kill Julius were acceptable while Antony contradicted Brutus’s views, arguing why Caesar should not have been murdered. Both speakers used ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade the people of Rome. Brutus’s speech was mainly based on logic, while Antony’s speech took more of an emotional approach . Overall, Antony had a sophistic style, he was much more artful and cunning than Brutus. He reeled in the crowd like a fish and captured them with his compelling diction.

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.

In Julius Caesar, one of William Shakespeare’s more well-known plays, Marc Antony finds himself persuading a crowd who believe Caesar’s death was for the benefit of the Roman people. Antony had implored “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears” in an attempt to sway the crowd to give credence to his belief that Caesar’s death is a tragedy to the Roman folk and create a mutual bond between him and the crowd. This bond created by Antony is one of the very few times his speech dips into the realm of ethical appeals. The crowd of Romans had been originally convinced by the three main conspirators, mainly by Brutus, that Caesar’s death was to the benefit of all the Romans by portraying Caesar as a tyrant. Robert P. Yagelski had stated in chapter 8 of his book “rhetoric is the art of identifying the available means of persuasion. Antony had found which avenue to take and predominantly used pathos to manipulate the simple-minded folk to seek revenge and give the same sentence to the conspirators and Caesar had received.

Funeral Orations played an essential role in honoring ancient Grecians upon their passing. Such orations served to remember the deeds that one completed during their time on earth. In ancient Grecian history, Funeral Orations were only one component of the elaborate and essential process of laying one to rest and preserving their place in the afterlife. Funeral Orations can be witnessed in Grecian art and literature. In William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar’, The role of persuasion in funeral orations, moreover Marc Antony’s orations is evident in the preservation of ancient Grecian society indicating that Marc Antony’s use of ethos, logos, and pathos made his soliloquy victorious.

Brutus uses a proud tone conveyed by many literary devices to convince the audience that Caesar's murder was justified. Brutus asks, "Would you rather, Caesar were living, and you all die slaves, than that Caesar were dead, so you all live freeman" (Shakespeare 3.2.20-22). Brutus tries to persuade the audience that Caesar's murder was justified through the use of a rhetorical question and a hyperbole. He tells the audience if Caesar was not killed, Caesar could have become a dictator, and the people would have been oppressed. This persuasive question gives the Roman citizens time to contemplate what Brutus is saying, and prompts them to visualize the

Brutus’s Use of Rhetorical Strategies in Julius Caesar In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare employs various rhetorical strategies such as paradox, direct address, and antithesis to portray Brutus as a reasonable and caring individual, thus justifying his actions to the audience and fellow conspirators. Brutus begins conspiring to end Caesar’s power, and he concludes that “Caesar must bleed,” and the conspirators must “kill him boldly, but not wrathfully” (2.1.184-185). Brutus’ desire to avoid killing with wrath inspires a paradox, which is intended to draw attention and thought to the subject. By emphasizing the difference between boldness and wrath, he appears more reasonable, compelling the conspirators to side with him. The paradox promotes the

Brutus said in his speech during Act II, Sc. 2, “If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar’s, to him I say that Brutus’ love for Caesar was no less than his” (ln. 16-18). When Brutus says that, he pretty much tells the ROman citizens that, despite his previous actions against Caesar, he still loved and worshipped him like so many of his fellow Romans did. In Brutus’s speech he continually says that he loved Caesar. When Brutus keeps saying this he gets the people thinking that Brutus did what he thought was truly best for them. In Brutus’s speech he apologized to those that he offended by killing Caesar. BY doing this he makes the people think he had their best interest in mind when he killed

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare was a persuasion based work. A web of deceit and lies ensnared the entire cast. Almost every movement of the plot was brought about by the spoken word rather than through an attack. The better a character was at charming a crowd, the more likely they were to come out on top. Each of these reasons contribute to words holding more power than weapons.

Brutus’s main claims in this speech are that, the senators and Brutus had killed Caesar for the sake of Rome, Brutus is sorry if they had upset anyone or offended anyone by killing Caesar, and that if Brutus were to ever become like Caesar Brutus would have them do the same as they did to Caesar. Brutus says “Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free.” Brutus is stating that even though to the people’s eyes killing Caesar was wrong Brutus thought it was best for Rome and that Brutus had no personal reason for killing Caesar. After telling the people why he killed Caesar, Brutus apologizes for what he had done and said if he offended anyone. He asked the people of he had offended

The power of speech can change the world as we know it. One name. One man. One voice. Martin Luther King.