The Importance Of Communication In The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar

“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions“ -Confucius. This quote is relevant because in Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony gave speeches after Caesar’s death. A speaker has to make connections with the audience, use creativity, and have passion. Antony was rhetoric, cunning, and used pathos to connect with the people of Rome. Brutus was also rhetoric, honorable, and used logos and ethos to influence the audience. Overall, Brutus did not influence the crowd like he hoped to. Antony knew how he was going to persuade the people before he gave his speech.

According to picturequotes.com, “Words are powerful. They can create or they can destroy. So choose your words wisely.” In Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, conspirators slay Julius Caesar, resulting in anarchy in Rome. Some agree with the death, while others oppose the sudden and violent death of Caesar. Unlike Antony, Brutus uses emotion rather than fact to sway the Roman people that Caesars death is justified. Although Brutus puts rules in place so he can not talk disrespectfully of the conspiracy, Antony, Caesar‘s closest friend, uses his slyness and manipulation in his funeral speech to persuade the Romans. Although both characters use analogies, parallelism, loaded words and hyperboles, their speeches convey very different

"Friends, Romans, and Countrymen lend me your ears"(49). In the play Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony is given an opportunity to speak at Caesar's funeral. In his speech, Antony addresses the death of Caesar and draws attention to the foul play at hand. Not only that, but he also discusses the legacy that Caesar left behind. In doing so, Marc Antony uses verbal irony to being to light the conspirator's betrayal toward not only Caesar, but to the people of Rome.

Speeches are important to pay attention to, because you as a listener can grasp the concept that is being delivered. The use of rhetoric helps sway or convince an audience by using the three strategies of persuasion. The three strategies consist of rhetorical strategies, propaganda techniques, and logical fallacies. Rhetorical strategies are used to sway the audience by targeting their morals, emotions, or giving data. Propaganda techniques are known for the misuse of emotions to persuade the audience by using points that have nothing to do with the argument. On the other hand logical fallacies finds the faults in the opponent's argument. In William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, As well as in real life use persuasion. Speakers often use rhetorical strategies and propaganda techniques, such as Brutus and Cassius, to justify their actions.

In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, both Brutus and Mark Antony provide moving funeral speeches in hopes to sway the crowd towards their opinion. Brutus makes an attempt to assure the Roman people of his own innocence and justify the murder of Julius Caesar. Adversely, Mark Antony offers a speech to counter that of Brutus and act as the defense for Julius Caesar. While both speeches are sufficient in swaying their audience, Antony is able to use both pathos and antithesis more effectively and his use of the devices enables him to provide a far more compelling speech.

The tragedy of Julius Caesar is a story of struggle and betrayal; however, in it, Shakespeare conveys messages about human nature. Three of the main characters in the play convey the ways that power corrupts and changes people. Brutus’ attitude towards killing Caesar and rising to power, along with his personality, change throughout the first three acts. Cassius’ need for power makes him lose himself and his humanity. Mark Antony, changed by Caesar's death, rises to power after taking it away from those that killed him. In Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, he conveys notions regarding human nature and the ways that power changes and corrupts people; he does this through his characters Brutus, Cassius, and Antony.

The following passage is from Act 3 Scene 3 of Julius Caesar, it includes the ability of Antony to manipulate and control his conversation with the citizens of Rome in order to sway the crowd against Brutus and Cassius. During this time in Rome, there was no leader. The citizens of Rome decided to offer Caesar the crown three times but he refused. One day, Caesar was going to go to the capital in order to be crowned but that didn’t happen. There was a group of conspirators who feared Caesar. One of them was Cassius. They felt that he would have too much power and he would turn away from the people. They decided to assassinate Caesar. This event led to Caesar’s funeral. Antony had a speech at Caesar’s funeral. His audience were the citizens of Rome. He wanted to

Mark Antony’s use of emotional appeal is one of his strongest uses of rhetoric. First, he puts himself on the same level as the commoners and then begins to attack the sentiments of the Roman people. Antony uses a plain folks appeal to put himself on common ground with the commoners, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears;” (3.2. 74). This is an important strategy because in this period of time aristocrats would not dare speak to commoners yet alone call them a friend. To show the commoners how much Antony actually adored Caesar he says, “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar” (3.2. 107). This makes the commoners have a

In the tragic play Julius Caesar there is a leader everybody looked up to named Caesar. Although people looked up to him he was not always loyal,trustworthy, or honorable. Some seen it before others and want to make a change and within that change Caesar had to be kilt. Brutus being Caesar friend knew the games that he played and became one of the ones that put an end to his games. With him being his friend he honoured him for all the good but as he was ambitious Brutus slew him. Maybe Caesar knew he was no good to Roman because once he seen Brutus standing upon the conspiracy something switched in him he no longer fought for his life. Caesar last words were “Et tu, Brutus(you too Brutus)then falls Caesar”.

Mark Antony was one of Caesars greatest friends, that he could always count on even after he is brutally murdered. At his funeral he proves many points with just one speech. He get an uproar of anger and pride from the Roman people as he delivers his speech.

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.

Antony’s speech is full of emotion as Antony explains how Brutus says “Caesar was ambitious...Brutus is an honourable man” (III: ii: 101-102). Antony uses pathos as Brutus and the conspirators are the only people that thought Caesar was ambitious. Irony is shown as Brutus is called honorable, yet Antony was using it as a way of mocking him and later showing how Caesar didn’t deserve to die. Antony talks about how Brutus was “Caesar’s angel,” and how much “Caesar loved Brutus:” (III: ii: 183-184). Antony explains this part in pathos as Caesar loved Brutus, yet Brutus betrayed him and killed him. Antony also used logos to show how Caesar didn’t hate others, and how everyone was loved by Caesar. To show how much Caesar loved Rome, Antony explains how Caesar “left the walks, private arbours, and new planted orchards,” to give back to the people that showed appreciation and respect (III: ii: 248-250). Antony uses pathos to convince the plebeians that Caesar tried to make Rome better and brought many achievements to the people. Logos is also shown as Antony explained all the good fortune Caesar left for Rome, and how Caesar will never be forgotten. Mark Antony persuades the Plebeians to show how Caesar did everything to help Rome’s people yet, they conspired against

The clang of the swords on the shields pierced General Julius Caesar’s ear. He couldn’t wait till the war against the Greeks was over and he could return home to his wife. He slaughtered 113 enemy soldiers and was still on the hunt to find one. He stepped over 47 bodies, some of which were still breathing and groaning their last breaths on the eastern shore of the river Acheron. Caesar's nemesis was General Brutus,the leader of the greek army, and his old best friend. After the battle at the River of Acheron, General Julius Caesar rode back to his camp, Gleaming in his Ice-white armour, shining in his glory after his victory vs the Greeks.

Julius Caesar is a work of art by William Shakespeare in 1599. Within this play Julius Caesar is portrayed as a tragic hero. A tragic hero is defined as “the main character of a tragedy [who is] usually dignified, courageous, and high ranking” (novel study guide). Also vital to defining a tragic hero is that, “the hero’s downfall is caused by a tragic flaw” ( novel study guide). It is very evident that Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a tragic hero given that he is of noble stature, has a fatal flaw and comes to an unhappy end.