Public speeches, no matter the setting, all have a common goal: to persuade or convince everyone in the audience to support the speaker’s point of view. In Act III Scene II of “Julius Caesar,” Brutus and Antony both give funeral speeches for Caesar’s death. Both speeches were very effective in their own respective ways. Both speeches were very well presented. Antony’s speech, was, however, more effective. In the beginning of Scene II, Brutus gave his funeral speech about Caesar’s death. Brutus emphasized how much he really loved Caesar. In Act III Scene II, Brutus tells the crowd, “If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more” (ln 22-25). Brutus means
