The speeches given at Julius Caesar's funeral were both spectacular;however, there were some comparable aspects. Brutus's speech was more friendly, loving, and kind towards Julius Caesar and the audience. Mark Antony's speech was more of him talking down Brutus and Julius, telling the citizens that were at the funeral, that they need to "forget" the memory of Julius. Brutus shows how much that he cares for Julius and how much he misses him; where as Mark Antony speaks as if he is already to forget Julius, and how, even though he says he doesn't, he disagree's with Brutus's thoughts on Julius Caesar. How the two men come at each other adds into the end conflict of the play.
As Brutus gives his speech he shows, emotionally and verbally, how …show more content…
He wants the audience to understand that he only killed Julius for the greater good of Rome. In Brutus's Speech it states, " As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, i rejoice a it; as he was valiant, I honor him." And ," if there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him i say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his." These statements shows that Brutus honors and loves Caesar even though he had to take his life. In Mark Antony's speech it states, " but Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar has wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus said he was ambitious; and Brutus is an honorable man." Mark Antony is trying to prove to the audience that Brutus's speech does not do Caesar justice, for he was not as good a man as he describes. Mark Antony is also in a way, mocking, Brutus and his speech. He does this by saying that, Brutus says that Julius Caesar was ambitious and Brutus is an honest man, he then goes on to give reasons why Julius was not ambitious, and by doing so he, in a way, mocks Brutus and his
As Brutus gives his speech he shows, emotionally and verbally, how …show more content…
He wants the audience to understand that he only killed Julius for the greater good of Rome. In Brutus's Speech it states, " As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, i rejoice a it; as he was valiant, I honor him." And ," if there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him i say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his." These statements shows that Brutus honors and loves Caesar even though he had to take his life. In Mark Antony's speech it states, " but Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar has wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus said he was ambitious; and Brutus is an honorable man." Mark Antony is trying to prove to the audience that Brutus's speech does not do Caesar justice, for he was not as good a man as he describes. Mark Antony is also in a way, mocking, Brutus and his speech. He does this by saying that, Brutus says that Julius Caesar was ambitious and Brutus is an honest man, he then goes on to give reasons why Julius was not ambitious, and by doing so he, in a way, mocks Brutus and his