During the “funeral” scene in Act III in William Shakespeare's play, “ The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,” he makes the speeches of Brutus and Antony dramatic and memorable with the use of rhetorical appeals and persuasive techniques. ith the use of rhetorical appeals and persuasive techniques, both Brutus and Antony are able to persuade the crowd in their own point of view on the matter of Caesar's death. For Brutus, Shakespeare had his speech focused on the reasoning of why the conspirators killed Caesar, why he killed Caesar. While in Antony's case, Shakespeare has his speech focus on questioning the conspirators motive and if Caesar was truly a possible tyrant or not. Questioning if Caesar truly needed to be killed. Thus Shakespeare made the
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Instead of having more of an emotional appeal to the people, Brutus's speech aimed for a logical reasoning of why Caesar had to die. As well as what kind of man he was. Thus Brutus’s speech consisted mainly of logos and partly ethos. By itself Brutus’s speech was overally good, however with the lack of pathos it didn’t really capture the hearts compared to Antony’s speech. This is what Shakespeare had intended to be his greatest downfall, especially due to how Brutus had Antony go last with his emotional statements of remembrance. Nonetheless, Brutus’s speech contained an admirable and heroic background to it. By stating how Brutus killed his once best friend for the sake of Rome it created an admirable outlook to him. Already before his speech, many Romans respected Brutus and spoke of him as an honorable man. So his statements of why he killed Caesar for their sake was believable. Shakespeare's intention of having Brutus be seen as honorable is truly represented in his speech to the point that it risked his own death. For his honor he offered up his own life to end with the knife that killed Caesar if the people wished upon it. Hence how even though not much pathos was included in his speech, it did however create some form of emotions in the crowd. Unfortunately Brutus speech had a downfall of not having concrete evidence that Caesar would rise to become a tyrant. A fact that will …show more content…
In the beginning Shakespeare purposely imputed the knowledge of how when offered the crown three times, the crowd would remember how Caesar would “thrice refuse.” Viewing of the scene for the people encouraged Antony’s reasoning of how Caesar could not have become the tyrant as Brutus has made him out to be. It became all the evidence Antony would need to change the minds of the Romans to turn against Brutus’s word and the conspirators associated with
Instead of having more of an emotional appeal to the people, Brutus's speech aimed for a logical reasoning of why Caesar had to die. As well as what kind of man he was. Thus Brutus’s speech consisted mainly of logos and partly ethos. By itself Brutus’s speech was overally good, however with the lack of pathos it didn’t really capture the hearts compared to Antony’s speech. This is what Shakespeare had intended to be his greatest downfall, especially due to how Brutus had Antony go last with his emotional statements of remembrance. Nonetheless, Brutus’s speech contained an admirable and heroic background to it. By stating how Brutus killed his once best friend for the sake of Rome it created an admirable outlook to him. Already before his speech, many Romans respected Brutus and spoke of him as an honorable man. So his statements of why he killed Caesar for their sake was believable. Shakespeare's intention of having Brutus be seen as honorable is truly represented in his speech to the point that it risked his own death. For his honor he offered up his own life to end with the knife that killed Caesar if the people wished upon it. Hence how even though not much pathos was included in his speech, it did however create some form of emotions in the crowd. Unfortunately Brutus speech had a downfall of not having concrete evidence that Caesar would rise to become a tyrant. A fact that will …show more content…
In the beginning Shakespeare purposely imputed the knowledge of how when offered the crown three times, the crowd would remember how Caesar would “thrice refuse.” Viewing of the scene for the people encouraged Antony’s reasoning of how Caesar could not have become the tyrant as Brutus has made him out to be. It became all the evidence Antony would need to change the minds of the Romans to turn against Brutus’s word and the conspirators associated with