Rodolfo Salazar
English II Honors
Powell
December 19, 2014

Antony’s speech at the end of Act III is very powerful and moving for the crowd around Antony. He is able to not only make them feel sorry for Caesar but also find the perfect people to blame and rise up against, which happen to be Brutus and the rest of the conspirators, whom they were in agreement with just a few minutes prior to Antony speaking. He is able to change the crowd’s opinion about their previous “guiding lights” by using many different types of rhetorical techniques. The main techniques he uses are repetition, which cause them to question Brutus’s honor as well as that of the other conspirators, rhetorical questions, which cause them to wonder if Caesar really was ambitious and sympathize for Caesar’s death, and appeal to emotions and memory, which cause them to trust Antony and rebel against the conspirators. Antony uses repetition to mock Brutus’s honor and make the …show more content…
He first would state that Caesar did something that didn’t seem ambitious and then ask “Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?” or “Was this ambition?”, of course this wasn’t ambition but it makes the crown think about it longer and form deeper thoughts about it like “If Caesar wasn’t ambitious then why was he killed?”. He ties it into his repetition by saying that Brutus said he was ambitious and that it must be true because he is an honorable man. This makes the crowd incorporate Brutus’s honor with lies and deceptions, which makes them feel sorry for Caesar’s death. He then uses one more rhetorical question by saying that they used to love Caesar for a reason and asking “What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?”. This creates guilt within the crowd for having praised Brutus for killing Caesar and not doing anything about