Mark Antony’s Appeal to the Roman People: A Deceitful Discussion Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, once said that “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” In Act III Scene II of the tragic play Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony uses much rhetoric and persuasion in order to convince the Plebeians to rebel against Brutus. This speech followed shortly after Caesar's assassination by the conspirators and Brutus’s speech about why Caesar’s assassination was obligatory. Antony had previously agreed with the conspirators to not speak harshly about them assassinating Caesar. Antony then makes a speech, trying to uproar the Roman population into rebelling.
