Theme Of Nobility In Julius Caesar

In comparison to the perceptions both Cassius and Brutus have towards Caesar, is the perspectives of Antony and Caesar of himself. Antony looked at Caesar as a friend, a role model as well as a kind and deserving leader. This notion is exemplified through the use of emotive language “O mighty Caesar! /most noble blood of all this world/ the noblest man/ That ever lived in the tide of times”. Furthermore, the use of descriptive and connotative language throughout Antony’s

Antony- Caesar's biggest follower. After Caesar's death; Antony claims to be join the conspiracy in order to save his life and say his speech about Caesar to the crowd. After Brutus leaves, Antony persuades the crowd that the conspiracy killed Caesar out of hate and not for Rome. Antony makes the crowd go on a rampage. Later Antony meets up with Caesar's adopted son Octavius and kills the conspiracy.

He wants to put him to rest peacefully, but not praise him. In this moment, Antony was being honorable.

Antony said he was my friend, faithful and just to me (III, ii, 87). Antony makes the people feel sympathy for him. Antony proved that Caesar was not ambitious by giving some examples. Caesar brought captives for reason that benefited Rome. Caesar cried for the poor. Caesar refused the crown three times. Caesar’s will left money and land for the common people of Rome. Friends, Roman, countrymen (III, ii, 75). Stating this he shows that he is one of them.

Brutus first states, “[Would you rather Caesar] living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead to live a freemen” Then Antony came back with “You all did love him once, not without cause. What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?” After Brutus’ speech, Antony was able to evoke the feeling of the audience and bring them back, before his death and see what they had loved within Caesar before his death. All of his accomplishments were able to evoke the emotions they had before his death and then wanted to actually kill Brutus. In the next Scene, it mentioned a major consequence of the words that Antony had spoken. The famous poet Cinna was killed. However, he wasn’t even involved in the assassination of Caesar. That was how much emotion he was able to evoke in the people in Rome. Although ethos could establish the cold, hard truth, pathos can get under peoples skin and effect them and draw them into your cause. In which case it is Antony's'

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.

“… this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, / but that I loved Rome more.” (III, ii, 21-22)

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.

Caesar respected Antony, and his way of life. He defended him when he said, "See! Antony, that revels (makes merry) long a-nights, is notwithstanding (however) up. Good morrow, Antony" (2.4.116-117).

Antony tries to make the audience seem like they have only understood one side of Caesar because he claims that “the evil that men do lives after them;/ The good is oft interred with their bones”(III.ii.84-85). Antony compares the evil that lives forever with the good that dies off. Antony intended for the audience to feel guilty because they have only remembered the evil that Caesar has done, rather than the good. The audience feels they have misunderstood Caesar and are convinced he has also done good for them, even if they don’t remember it. Antony tries to appeal to the audience emotionally by informing them that “It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you/ You are not wood, not stones, but men”(III.ii. 153-155). Antony tries to make the audience feel that Caesar truly cared for them and thought of them as people and nothing else. The audience feels a sense of sadness when hearing this line because they cheered on for Caesar’s death even though, Caesar loved them deeply. Antony wants the Romans to understand that Caesar saw them as more than his people because when he’s about to read Caesar’s will, he informs them“ that [they] are his heirs”(III.ii.158). The phrase “heirs” which describes the people of Rome conveys kinship because the Romans feel that Caesar cares for them greatly and felt they were important enough to be included in Caesar’s will. This is important because Antony wants the people to feel that Caesar thought of them dearly so they will feel more sorrow for his death. Antony’s diction demonstrates significance in the speech because rather than say that the Romans were Caesar’s “subjects” or “people”, using the word “heirs” evokes a sense of closeness the Romans feel toward Caesar. Antony wants to make sure that the people feel special according to Caesar and that they were more to him than just citizens.

Even in the hardest times, Antony shows honor through his actions. The very first time Antony is introduced to the reader, he shows his nobility to Caesar. He responds to Caesar’s simple request by saying, “when

Mark Antony appeals to the Romans' sense of ethos to establish himself in their eyes as a noble man, and to surreptitiously separate the conspirators' from their lofty reputations. Specifically, Antony mentions that he has the power to "do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong, who, you know, are honourable men", but he "will

Rome by acting like he killed his best friend for the better good of the romans rather than his.

Finally, at the very end, Antony makes one last scholarly remark, truly convincing the audience that he is deserving of respect, simply because of his own policy of loyalty. “This was the noblest Roman of them all” (JC 5.5.74). In this line, Antony is referring to Brutus, after he had killed himself alongside the assistance of Strato, who held his sword as he ran into it aggressively, because Brutus would rather have died than remained with the gruesome thought that if he and Cassius had lived, they would simply be forced into slavery if they returned home. Shame, in