Anthony In Julius Caesar's Speech

t is without a doubt that Anthony is much more the persuasive speaker than Brutus thought him to be. Brutus should have listened to Cassius about not letting Anthony speak on behalf of Caesar's funeral. Anthony knew how to stroke the crowd into believing that he had no special qualities or talents that could ever come up with such an outrageous plot to kill Caesar. Anthony used Brutus as an example to prove to the Romans everything that he wasn’t. Anthony to the attention from him and put it on Brutus and Cassius and in return made Anthony look like an ordinary person grieving the loss of a dear friend. "I am no orator, as Brutus is, But as you know me all, a plan blunts man that loves my friend. And that they know full well that gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit nor words, nor worth, Action nor utterance nor the power of speech" (3.2. 207-212) Anthony totally humbles himself to the Roman crowd as smallest threat of them all. He goes as far as calling himself unqualified to speak on behalf of the great Caesar.
Anthony had no better way with words than he did by pulling at the heartstrings of the Roman people. Anthony went as far as degrading and disrespecting the Caesar's body by putting it on …show more content…
He teased the crowd about Caesar's love for the Roman people by giving the hints of truths and mentioning a will left by Caesar to the Roman people. "It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men. And being men, bearing the will of Caesar, it will inflame you, it will make you mad. Tis good you know not that you are his heirs. For if you should-oh, what would come of it!" (3.2. 139-144) Anthony provoked the crowd into so much guilt thinking Caesar loved them so much to leave them a gift a part of him that it would surely cause a riot no matter what that might