These two men have two different purposes for writing and sharing their speeches. In the funeral speech by Antony he is expressing his feelings and emotions about Caesar's death to the crowd. In his funeral…
Suggested Score 80% Accept Suggested Score Manual Score: Manual Score Prompt Rubric | Checklist Two Julius Caesar Speeches Brutus and Mark Antony both delivered speeches after the death of Julius Caesar. How do these speeches relate to the conclusion of the play?…
The speech given by Brutus in William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Julius Caesar was most effective due to the use of pathos, ethos, and logos.…
The historical play, “Julius Caesar”, by William Shakespeare illustrates the problems of leadership that commence after the assassination of the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar. The play has a thorough use of rhetorical devices and was a powerful persuasion tool during the whole of the show. This literary device is extensively used during the funeral scene in Act three, Scene two where Marcus Brutus and Mark Antony give their speeches about Caesar's death. In their funeral speeches, while Marcus Brutus delivered a logical speech, Mark Antony overall wins the crowd through his use of ethics and empathy. Antony’s speech left such a lasting impact due his skillful use of Pathos.…
Through speaking in prose Shakespeare aims to make Brutus appear a ‘friend’ of the plebeians as he addresses them in their own language. Yet Brutus’s oratory is brief and lacks emotion via his bid to detach the two conjoining concepts of Caesar as the leader of Rome, instead hoping to isolate Caesar’s death by focusing on his love of Rome and his sacrifice for the people. Thus despite winning the fickle crowd over, his argument is not substantial enough to keep the crowd loyal throughout Anthony’s…
Tone is the literary term that defines the author's attitude of the situation conveyed through the characters. In Act III Scene I the predominant tone is one of mockery. The character Brutus conveys mockery through the use of Jokes about the death of Caesar. They call his death a benefit due to the fact that he no longer needs to fear death. They further mock him by covering themselves in his blood and declaring freedom, peace, and liberty.…
When Brutus recites a speech in the market place after Caesar’s death the speeches exemplify parallelism, verbal irony, and witty use of rhetoric. With the Roman public watching on eager to see a reprisal for the death of Caesar, Brutus uses the undetected technique of coercion on the Romans taking advantage of their easily susceptible minds. In his speech he proclaims his love for Caesar passionately stating “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”. With the public making up their minds, Brutus plays his pathos card, showing he really did care for Caesar but claims, “Have you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” .Here…
I created a eulogy that I believe Cassius would deliver for Brutus at his funeral. I made Cassius’ goal in the eulogy to redeem Brutus’ honor, while showcasing the relationship of the two. At the end of Cassius and Brutus’ fight, Cassius exclaims how he cannot have “too much of Brutus love, ” which I feel describes the tone for their friendship (4.3.162). Despite Cassius’ flaws and schemes, he holds Brutus as close as his brother, which is why I repeated “Oh! How Cassius hath lost a brother today” throughout the eulogy.…
In Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” Julius Ceasar was drastically assassinated by conspirators. After his death brutus explained not being so concise why he did so using Logic to tell how Ceasar could have been real bad to rome even though he only showed great integrity. Antony a close friend of Ceasar is given permission to speak by Brutus,he says how Ceasar was good and appeals to the citizens emotions Brutus starts his speech by calming the citizens down,he tells how Ceasar could turn bad. Brutus says how all the power could get to Ceasar’s head and how they stopped it before anything bad could happen.…
Now that Caesar is dead, Brutus automatically takes on his position and wants the people to respect and regard him as the new leader of Rome. Thus, making him able to organize and control the funeral service. However, he chose to go first in giving his speech. Thinking that he would say enough and no one would care about what Antony had to say, this a major flaw with this order because the crowd will most likely remember the speech that was given last not first. His speech is not as heartfelt and emotional as Antony’s, making it less persuasive.…
Another example of a rhetorical question in Brutus's speech is when Brutus says "Who is here so vile that will not love his country?" In that last quote notice he started with "Who is here" He say that many times in the speech which is repetition for impact, he uses this to persuade the crowd. That device works as a list to make it seem like there were many reasons for the assassination and he keeps reinforcing his opinions with repetition. Brutus also explained that he didn't hate Caesar, but that he loved Rome more. He says "Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more" this shows it would have been hard to kill Caesar, as he loved him, but he is so sure it is right he had to killed him.…
In addition to defending a Caesar’s dead body Antony had to go back in the past to things he has done for the people, and he is not even defending himself. Not alone that Antony has to worry about the conspirators, he even sent a servant to the scene of murder to make sure he was not a target on the group of conspirators list. Consequently, leading to Antony fearing for his life while giving his speech. Then after he gave his speech he was able not only calm the crowd, but to convince them to go against the conspirators and want kill them. Overall while Brutus’s speech was exceptional and was able to calm the crowd and change their minds into thinking Caesar was a tyrant.…
Caesar was killed just for having ambition. Maybe the determination to make everyone slaves. With all that said Brutus did have the better funeral speech than Antony, he not only spoke about why he killed Caesar he commemorated him as his friend that he had so much love for. Antony did not really entice the reader with his speech to summarize what he said is Brutus is an honorable man (x3 times), Caesar did not have any ambition because he brought captives home to Rome and the money brought great wealth to the city, Antony tried to give Caesar a kingly crown and he refused three times, and the people should love Caesar as they once did. These statements do not entice the reader Antony should have talked more about the bad that Caesar did.…
After my speech is ended.” (AIII,S 1 L, 255) Speaking at the funeral, Antony goes against the rules that Brutus sets and makes the crowd go against…
Which makes it seem like the people in the crowd are participating and forming their own opinions, when Brutus is really forming their thoughts for them knowing that everyone is going to give the same answer. During Mark Antony’s speech he uses the same technique, using repetition and rhetorical questions to prove that Caesar was not ambitious. He states, “He hath brought many captives home to rome,/ Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill./ Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? . . . You all did see that on Lupercal/ I thrice presented him a kingly crown,/ which he did thrice refuse.…