Upon Julius Caesar’s funeral, in William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, both Brutus and Antony attempted to persuade the people of Rome to believe two entirely different stories, and only one them were victorious. Both speeches were crafted with different methods of persuasion, and because of this, the people embraced their words differently. Both speakers were attempting to achieve total persuasion of the unforgiving crowds, and certain aspects of their speeches lead to either complete success or failure. Shakspeare was very specific in portraying persuasion and how it can be very manipulative and powerful if used correctly. Mark Antony more effectively persuaded his audience by using the manipulative rhetoric of pathos in pursuit of turning the tides of Rome against the conspirators.
The dynamic of the speeches were entirely different, and the uses of the various devices of persuasion were taken at a different perspective. Brutus attempted to take a logical tone when stating how the people of Rome were better off with Caesar’s ambition put to rest, yet his speech was unchanged with his miniscule use of pathos, “If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather …show more content…
Brutus was more successful along the lines of giving the people insight of his perspective, yet Antony was powerful and vulnerable with the people as he detailed the murder of his king,
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms, quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart, and, in his mantle muffling up his face, even at the base of Pompey’s statue (which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I and you and all of us fell down, with bloody treason flourished over us. (3.2
The dynamic of the speeches were entirely different, and the uses of the various devices of persuasion were taken at a different perspective. Brutus attempted to take a logical tone when stating how the people of Rome were better off with Caesar’s ambition put to rest, yet his speech was unchanged with his miniscule use of pathos, “If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather …show more content…
Brutus was more successful along the lines of giving the people insight of his perspective, yet Antony was powerful and vulnerable with the people as he detailed the murder of his king,
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms, quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart, and, in his mantle muffling up his face, even at the base of Pompey’s statue (which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I and you and all of us fell down, with bloody treason flourished over us. (3.2