Mark Antony's Secret Weapon “Friends Romans countrymen Lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” That was Mark Antony’s (a character and one of the main antagonist in William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar) first statement in his speech that completely turned a weeping mourning crowd into an angry mob. This crowd had just heard that news that their beloved leader Julius Caesar had been put to death. Brutus (a main protagonist in the tragedy) had spoke before Mark Antony and made them sad and mournful about Caesar's death: Mark Antony spoke after Brutus and turned the crowd into an angry mob. Mark Antony turned the crowds emotions upside down using persuasive techniques, and those devices were Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.
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Logos is related to logic or reasoning. The first example of logos Antony uses is “you all did love him once, not without cause: what cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?” When Mark Antony says this he is saying that when Caesar was living you all loved him, so now that he died why cant u love and mourn for him now? This is a logical statement. My next Logos is this “ which all the while ran blood, great caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countryman! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down.” Here Mark Antony is telling the crowd in a reasonable way that since Caesar fell we all fell to mourn for him. They mourned for him because he was an important man and Mark Antony is making that point to them through logos. My final example of logos is this “I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?” This is logos because he is logically saying that he offered Caesar the crown three times which he didn't accept all three times, and Mark Antony asks is this ambition? The answer is no it isn't ambition so Mark Antony is telling them this to swing their emotions. Mark Antony used the persuasive device called logos in his funeral speech to Shift their emotions from sad and mournful to angry and
Logos is related to logic or reasoning. The first example of logos Antony uses is “you all did love him once, not without cause: what cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?” When Mark Antony says this he is saying that when Caesar was living you all loved him, so now that he died why cant u love and mourn for him now? This is a logical statement. My next Logos is this “ which all the while ran blood, great caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countryman! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down.” Here Mark Antony is telling the crowd in a reasonable way that since Caesar fell we all fell to mourn for him. They mourned for him because he was an important man and Mark Antony is making that point to them through logos. My final example of logos is this “I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?” This is logos because he is logically saying that he offered Caesar the crown three times which he didn't accept all three times, and Mark Antony asks is this ambition? The answer is no it isn't ambition so Mark Antony is telling them this to swing their emotions. Mark Antony used the persuasive device called logos in his funeral speech to Shift their emotions from sad and mournful to angry and