How Does Brutus Use Ethos In Julius Caesar

In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Caesar was assassinated, Mark Antony and Brutus are currently trying to gain power, during Caesar’s funeral through manipulation. Antony uses parallelism, logos and pathos for his speech. Brutus uses either/thinking and ethos in his speech at Caesar’s funeral. Antony and Brutus used some form of persuasion to manipulate their audiences in their speeches. The form of persuasion Antony used managed to gain back the people’s loyalty. Both speeches of Brutus and Antony about Caesar’s death were compelling, but Mark Antony’s speech was overall superior to that of Brutus’s, for he won back the Roman people’s loyalty.

In Brutus’s speech, he tries to invoke the people of Rome using ethos. Brutus uses ethos to credit himself, saying that the people should trust his words. The people of Rome can trust in his words because he is a part of the government, so in using ethos was an effective way on persuading the people. Brutus also uses either/thinking to present the people of Rome with two extreme options, if Caesar was alive or dead. Brutus says in his speech “Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freeman” he’s trying to say that Caesar was a tyrant and that it was a good thing that he died. Brutus used his speech to manipulate the Roman …show more content…
Antony uses pathos to invoke the people emotionally to gain back their loyalty, when Brutus describes Caesar as a tyrant. Antony appealed to the people emotionally and logically by stating the facts about Caesar and what he did. Antony uses parallelism in his speech about Brutus by saying “Brutus is an honourable man” this would be repeated because this was sarcasm because Brutus isn’t an honourable man. Antony ultimately manipulated the Roman people and got them to do what he wanted in the end by appealing to logos, pathos and