Comparing Brutus And Mark Antony

Brutus and Mark Antony were both friends or allies of Caesar. They both spoke at his funeral and while both speech's were similar they had their differences. Brutus' speech on one hand, was driven by logic and reason. While Antony's speech was driven by emotions and to make the crowd feel something and sympathize with him. Brutus' intention was to persuade the audience that the killing of Caesar was a necessary thing while Antony was trying to cause riot among the people and show them how unfortunate Caesar's death was. Both of the men wanted to control the crowd's opinions and persuade them to believe as they were saying. Brutus spoke first and his main goal was to get the crowd to understand that what he did was necessary for the good of Rome and that he wasn't a bad man for doing so. When Brutus began speaking he had a very hostile crowd. However, through logic and rationality he gets the crowd to settle down some and begin hearing him for his words. Brutus' speech does not appeal to any of the crowds' emotions. His speech comes off as cold and rehearsed, like there is no room for failure. He was able to do this because of his …show more content…
He wanted the crowd to see how bad of a person Brutus was and what terrible actions he took without directly saying anything bad about Brutus. When Antony got the chance to speak he was speaking to a yet again hostile crowd, because of Brutus' persuasion, however he handled it well, just as Brutus did, and swayed the crowd. Antony's speech, unlike Brutus', was raw and pure and unrehearsed. He even broke down and began crying at one point, making the crowd sympathize and begin crying as well. This allowed him to connect with the audience in a way Brutus had not. He has much more of an understanding of the commoner's than Brutus. He doesn't care so much about respect but more about the people seeing how cruel and wrong Brutus