In the novel, Julius Caesar there is a two sided argument on how and why Caesar was murdered. Even though Caesar is Brutus’ best friend, for the sake of Rome, with no regrets or grief, Brutus murdered Caesar. In Brutus’ mind, the best for Rome was to annihilate Caesar. When Mark Antony finds out that Caesar was put to death, he asks Brutus if he can deliver a speech at his funeral. Brutus grants Antony his wish and lets him speak. Little did he know that Anthony had a proposal to turn everybody against him. Brutus was telling them that Caesar was gonna make them slaves again and that he was ambitious. However when Antony starts to speak, he changes the minds of everybody. Antony tells the truth of Caesar and the things he knew, not his opinion.
…show more content…
Basically saying what Brutus has done, he will have to live with it for the rest of his life. Throughout his speech he talks about how they are all honourable to come out and speak so that they don 't think he is there to do harm to them. He says Brutus is an honourable man, although asks how is he so honourable when he says Caesar was ambitious. Even though, he truly wasn’t ambitious at all. “He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.” (2.1-3). He then talks about how Caesar helped the poor when they cried for help. “When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.”(2.7-10). He calls Brutus an honourable man again to show the crowd that he is a liar and truly not honourable. Antony also supports his reasoning for Caesar, not being ambitious by telling the listeners that when he offered the crown to him three different times he refused it. “You all did see the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was the ambition?”(3.1-3). Antony again says that Brutus is an honourable man, but he does not speak to disprove what Brutus said, but he 's there speaking of what he knows. In Brutus’ speech he has nothing to say about Caesar, he just talks about himself, apologizes to the crowd if he has ever …show more content…
He uses pathos again with when he says “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And i must pause till it come back to me.” (4.34-35). Antony gets choked up and teary eyed when talking about Caesar. “Poor soul! His eyes are red as fire with weeping.” (6.44). This is when the crowd now believes in him. Getting close to the end of his speech, he reveals a parchment that he found in Caesar’s closet, which happens to be his will. He doesn’t mean to read his will but he lets the crowd hear a small portion of it. “Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read--And they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood…”(8.61-62). The crowd begs to hear the will shouting “The will, the will! We will hear Caesar’s will.” (9.68). But with the great respect he has for Caesar, he does not read it to them and tells the that they are mean and do not need to hear it because it will inflame them knowing what Caesar has wrote. “You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad.”
Basically saying what Brutus has done, he will have to live with it for the rest of his life. Throughout his speech he talks about how they are all honourable to come out and speak so that they don 't think he is there to do harm to them. He says Brutus is an honourable man, although asks how is he so honourable when he says Caesar was ambitious. Even though, he truly wasn’t ambitious at all. “He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.” (2.1-3). He then talks about how Caesar helped the poor when they cried for help. “When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.”(2.7-10). He calls Brutus an honourable man again to show the crowd that he is a liar and truly not honourable. Antony also supports his reasoning for Caesar, not being ambitious by telling the listeners that when he offered the crown to him three different times he refused it. “You all did see the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was the ambition?”(3.1-3). Antony again says that Brutus is an honourable man, but he does not speak to disprove what Brutus said, but he 's there speaking of what he knows. In Brutus’ speech he has nothing to say about Caesar, he just talks about himself, apologizes to the crowd if he has ever …show more content…
He uses pathos again with when he says “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And i must pause till it come back to me.” (4.34-35). Antony gets choked up and teary eyed when talking about Caesar. “Poor soul! His eyes are red as fire with weeping.” (6.44). This is when the crowd now believes in him. Getting close to the end of his speech, he reveals a parchment that he found in Caesar’s closet, which happens to be his will. He doesn’t mean to read his will but he lets the crowd hear a small portion of it. “Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read--And they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood…”(8.61-62). The crowd begs to hear the will shouting “The will, the will! We will hear Caesar’s will.” (9.68). But with the great respect he has for Caesar, he does not read it to them and tells the that they are mean and do not need to hear it because it will inflame them knowing what Caesar has wrote. “You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad.”