Julius Caesar was a successful war general that was going to get the throne of Rome and ruin it forever. Julius was assassinated by people close to him and after his death 2 people Brutus and Marc Antony make speeches about Caesar and his life. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the two men were on different sides of the plot but they still got the points across they wanted to sway the crowd, one was more successful than the other. I am going to talk about the differences, more differences, the similarities and then argue who is more effective as a speaker.
Brutus sided with the conspirators early in the play, at first he was not really into it, then he is pushing forward the plan to kill Caesar. Marc Antony is a dear friend to Caesar and will do anything to get revenge on the conspirators. To start off with, the position of the speaker is very important. Brutus stands above the crowd (scene 2, line 13) and Marc Antony is among the crowd (scene 2 line 74). The different positions among the crowd states the atmosphere of the speech. Brutus was there to tell them in scene 2, line 23 that killing Julius Caesar was best for the empire, while Marc Antony was pleading in scene …show more content…
The crowd’s reactions were very much similar in the fact that they were ready to carry him home or do exactly what they say like kill someone.(scene 2, lines 79 and 205) The emotions of the speech are also very similar with confident yet arrogant speeches each saying that they will save or have saved the Roman empire.(scene 2 lines 27 and 101) Another similarity of speeches were double meaning of words. Brutus and Mark Antony both used ambition as a words that meant a desire to achieve success and then ambition as just a strong desire to do something. Brutus used ambitious twice in his short speech and Antony used it 8 times eventually getting a fair amount of
Brutus sided with the conspirators early in the play, at first he was not really into it, then he is pushing forward the plan to kill Caesar. Marc Antony is a dear friend to Caesar and will do anything to get revenge on the conspirators. To start off with, the position of the speaker is very important. Brutus stands above the crowd (scene 2, line 13) and Marc Antony is among the crowd (scene 2 line 74). The different positions among the crowd states the atmosphere of the speech. Brutus was there to tell them in scene 2, line 23 that killing Julius Caesar was best for the empire, while Marc Antony was pleading in scene …show more content…
The crowd’s reactions were very much similar in the fact that they were ready to carry him home or do exactly what they say like kill someone.(scene 2, lines 79 and 205) The emotions of the speech are also very similar with confident yet arrogant speeches each saying that they will save or have saved the Roman empire.(scene 2 lines 27 and 101) Another similarity of speeches were double meaning of words. Brutus and Mark Antony both used ambition as a words that meant a desire to achieve success and then ambition as just a strong desire to do something. Brutus used ambitious twice in his short speech and Antony used it 8 times eventually getting a fair amount of