How To Justify Mark Antony's Speech

After the death of Caesar, Brutus and Mark Antony need to address the city of Rome. Brutus discusses with Mark Antony their plan to go about speaking to the Roman people. Brutus addresses the crowd first with two main goals in mind. To justify what he did and explain how this will benefit Rome. Antony has the advantage of going after Brutus speech and cut the limbs of his argument. In Brutus’s speech, he speaks from the heart. It’s not that his speech was a fail, it’s just that his honesty and integrity holds him back from a more persuasive winning argument. Mark Antony is left with the stage, and with his emotional manipulative ways, he delivers a much more intellectual, articulate, superior speech compared to Brutus’s. Even though both had the strengths, Antony’s was far more rhetorical and it worked to his advantage.
After Brutus’s gives a very strong speech, he leaves Mark Antony for …show more content…
“He was my friend, faithful and just to me” (Antony). In this sentence he shows his emotional connection to Caesar. He keeps hitting the crowd with ethos. Both Brutus and Mark Antony were loyal friends of Caesar once before and by bringing this up he is essentially putting Brutus down. Then, immediately after he repeats that Brutus is an honorable man. It is a very deceiving trick that gets the attention of the plebeians. He is bringing his emotional connection to Caesar, in the same sentence as calling Brutus an honorable man. It is becoming more obvious to the crowd what Antony is trying to accomplish. By the use of repetition, Antony circulates around the idea of accusing Brutus without ever calling him an outright liar. Every time he says that Brutus is an honorable man the tension in his voice raises and it becomes harsher. He destroys Brutus argument in every way because his words give make Brutus un credible. He gets his point across very effectively without