Letter To Caesar Rhetorical Analysis

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 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.

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.

Some might say that the ability to effectively persuade people to do things is one of the most useful qualities a person can possess. However, it can also be one of the most dangerous. In Julius Caesar, a play by William Shakespeare, a group of conspirators were plotting to overthrow Julius Caesar, who was poised to become the leader of the Roman Empire. Because doing this was a mission that would require a larger group of people, the conspirators attempted to convince people to support their plan and join the group. In doing so, the conspirators used tactics that appealed to both the logic and emotion of others.

When addressing the crowd, Antony displays physical emotions to show his audience and the readers how he feels about the death of Caesar. In order to clarify his perception about Caesar’s death, he expresses his emotions by announcing,

Cassius uses many rhetorical devices to effectively accomplish their intended purpose in the given audience. He does this by including rhetorical devices such as imagery. Cassius made Casca trust him and collaborate together with the use of imagery. Cassius spoke to Casca, he wanted him on his time and in order to do that he had to make him believe that Caesar was no good. The thunderstorm also plays a big role in this because Cassius makes Casca understand that the thunderstorm is occuring due to Caesar. Caesar states,

By skillfully using rhetoric a speaker can persuade an audience to follow their beliefs by using emotions, logic and ethics. In the play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, a group of men create a conspiracy to kill Caesar on March fifteenth and take control of Rome. They succeeded in killing Caesar by stabbing him and to justify their treason they say Caesar was a threat to Rome. On the other hand a man named Marc Antony, who was a close friend of Caesar, needs to persuade the romans that the treason unjust. Antony succeeds by making a powerful speech at Caesar’s funeral. As a skilled speaker he used uses rhetorical devices such as ethos which shows credibility or character, logos which shows a logical approach to the

My group hopes that our version of Act 3 Scene 2 would have a profound impact on the audience. We hope that our audience can better understand the modes of persuasion such as logos, pathos, and ethos.

The conspirators convinced people to turn against Caesar was by telling them how much of a bad king he would be if they crowned him and everything that might change if hes in rulinng of Rome and also metion that they may not be safe either if hes also king so the need everyone to help because if everybody helps they get to keep there postions No one else is shown trying to persuade anyone to help, although the conspiracy is partially underway at the time Cassius makes a brilliant and forceful attempt to involve Brutus. It would appear that the assassination of Julius Caesar was Cassius' idea and that it was he who persuaded others to join him. No doubt the other conspirators have had secret conversations among themselves, but these are not

Dante may have thought that Brutus deserved to be chewed up and eaten alive by Lucifer himself, but others tend to disagree. People's view of Brutus and co-conspirators really depends on one’s mood at that time. Was it right for Brutus to kill Caesar to keep the Roman Republic alive? Logical thinking tends to side with Brutus while emotional thinking sides with Antony who believed Caesar was a just ruler. This is best seen at the funeral oration of Caesar in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Brutus and Antony each give a speech in order to prove that his side is the honorable side. Spoiler alert: Antony being a friend of Caesar completely trashes Brutus and the rest of the conspirators even after telling Brutus he would speak nicely of them. However

The power of rhetoric is embodied throughout William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Specifically, in the context of Julius Caesar’s funeral, Brutus and Antony demonstrate the influence rhetorical appeals and devices have upon the audience’s opinion. In the justifying the murder of Julius Caesar, both orations appeal to the audience through ethos, pathos and logos. Respectively, the sense of reliability, emotional effects and the rationality executed in Brutus’s speech, yet more effectively accomplished in Antony’s speech, successfully transform the opinion of the audience from one view to the contrary. Brutus speaks first appealing to the audience through logic in hopes of suppressing the mutiny, and illuminating a more rational response. The audience is engaged as Brutus simply states that Caesar was overly ambitious, however, it is Antony’s subsequent oration that fully captivates the audience. Dismantling Brutus’s speech,

In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Mark Antony gives a speech, he uses repetition and emotional appeal to be more effective in showing the audience what the conspirators have really done. He repeats certain phrases in a sarcastic way that turns Brutus own words against him and in doing this he shows the awful reasons to why Julius Caesar was murdered.

Octavius Caesar is deserving of commendation for his ability to strictly operate upon a political agenda while producing significant results. However, he is not a man as he forgoes humanness for his political strife and even less of a ruler as he is dishonourable and hypocritical in his actions and beliefs. Caesar is a disciplined man and acts logically, in accordance with the values of the Roman Soldier. Thus, Antony who self-gratifies is condemned by Caesar for neglecting his duty as a Roman soldier. Although, Caesar’s questioning of Antony’s loyalty to Rome is valid; it only emphasizes the two traits he lacks the most, honour and loyalty.

Ti which alexas diplomatically answers saying he ‘ was nor sad nor merry’, Cleopatra is satisfied with such an answer, she sees this ‘well- divided disposition’ to be another example of Antony’s greatness, she also assumes that Antony is putting on an act hiding his real emotions from his soldiers and is only his true self when he is with her in Egypt ,this is a striking contrast to when in the first scene she accused him of bring loyal to his roman roots and said his love was an act. She resolves to send messages to Antony everyday and ask charmain if she did’ ever love Caesar so?’ .charmain’s reply is a praise of Caesar to tease Cleopatra, Cleopatra is furious at her reply threatening to ‘give thee bloody teeth’ if anyone ever spoke of Caesar and her ‘salad days’ in the same capacity as her present ‘man of men’ her ’brave Antony’. With this she leaves and the scene

This passage, taken from William Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra, shows Octavius Caesar discussing with Lepidus about what they should do about Antony whom Caesar thinks at this moment in the play is currently frolicking with Cleopatra, the pharaoh of Egypt, instead of doing his duties. The passage also contains accounts from Caesar about the man Antony once was as well as his vivid opinion on Antony’s current state. This essay will analyse the language, form and the tone of Caesar the passage as well as examining its significance in relation to the rest of the play.