When someone has murdered their best friend in cold blood, sometimes justifying it is easy. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare this is exactly what happens. In the story there is the noble man Brutus and his friends, one of whom is in place to receive the Roman crown, Julius Caesar. Brutus and the others feared that Caesar was going to become tyrannical when given power and would forsake them. After a while Brutus and his friends stabbed Caesar to death upon the Court House steps. Afterwards Brutus had to speak to the people to explain himself and he did indeed give the best speech of all based of of his use of alliteration, parallel structure, and ethos. When thinking about what makes Brutus’s speech the best, his alliteration
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Again in the beginning of his speech he says “believe me for my honour, and have respect to mine honour”. (Shakespeare 870) By using parallel structure here, he places emphasis on his honor which was well known throughout his parts. If he can get the people to see him through his history of honor then he has already gained an advantage on their perspective. Down to about the middle of his speech he has a big part where he says “Who here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; fro him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended”. (Shakespeare 871) His words here make sure to put emphasis on offense. When he did this he did it so that he could that the people knew that if they were against him that they then couldn’t even call themselves Romans. Lastly for parallel structure, he uses the words “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more”. (Shakespeare 870) The parallelism of these two opposite statements puts stress of what he is saying. It makes sure that the people know that it wasn’t because he didn’t love Caesar but that he wanted the good of Rome more. Parallelism may have been one of the main devices Brutus used in his speech but its also used in important conjunction with
Again in the beginning of his speech he says “believe me for my honour, and have respect to mine honour”. (Shakespeare 870) By using parallel structure here, he places emphasis on his honor which was well known throughout his parts. If he can get the people to see him through his history of honor then he has already gained an advantage on their perspective. Down to about the middle of his speech he has a big part where he says “Who here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; fro him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended”. (Shakespeare 871) His words here make sure to put emphasis on offense. When he did this he did it so that he could that the people knew that if they were against him that they then couldn’t even call themselves Romans. Lastly for parallel structure, he uses the words “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more”. (Shakespeare 870) The parallelism of these two opposite statements puts stress of what he is saying. It makes sure that the people know that it wasn’t because he didn’t love Caesar but that he wanted the good of Rome more. Parallelism may have been one of the main devices Brutus used in his speech but its also used in important conjunction with