...Characteristics of a noble man include being ethical, patriotic, reasonable, and showing selflessness. Being a good orator, but not a good man lies beneath the speeches of Marcus Brutus and Marc Antony. In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Caesar’s friends are faced by an equal amount of hatred from the Plebeians with the aftermath of respected Julius Caesar’s death. There is a great struggle for the title of the noblest Roman between Brutus and Antony to reveal the most powerful and honorable man. The speedy fight for power are exposed quickly from each side of these Roman figures. After the assassination of Caesar, both Antony and Brutus relay speeches at the funeral that contain a significant amount of rhetorical techniques to their audience....
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...Was Brutus’s or Antony’s speech more effective at Caesar’s funeral? In Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, Brutus was a Roman politician who used to be Julius Caesar’s best friend back then, but some tragic things happened. Such as Brutus getting manipulated by Cassius (a Roman senator who was against Caesar), joining a conspiracy group, stabbing poor Caesar, and then telling all the Roman citizens that Caesar was ambitious at his own funeral because he feared he would destroy Rome. While on the other hand, Antony was a Roman general who was a real friend of Caesar. After Caesar's death, he took on the role of being a leader and stood up for him at his funeral. At the funeral where both Brutus and Antony spoke, Antony was a better eulogist. He used more...
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...the story, and it becomes more enjoyable. Decius is simply attempting to persuade Caesar into coming to the Senate House despite Calphurnia’s nightmare. Decius targets mainly Caesar’s pride while Calphurnia is attempting to reach out to him with compassion and sympathy. In the play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare reveals his understanding of the audience, uses...
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...Marcus Brutus and Marc Antony’s speeches “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion”- Aristotle. This quote could be interpreted in different ways, but I feel it means when someone shows leadership and passion others will mostlikely follolw them. In Julius Caesar there is a huge example of persuasion, and that is the speeches of both Brutus and Antony. Antony’s speech was based mainly around pathos (emotion). Whereas, Brutus went for more of a logic and ethic approach (logos and ethos). Both of these speeches were filled with a variety of devices, techniques, and even mistakes. Which leads to the final question, whose speech was more successful? Antony’s speech was based on emotion. This is because...
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...and distrust of others’ motives and intentions are left”-Unknown. In the play “Julius Caesar” Antony uses the rhetorical devices ethos,pathos, and logos to help persuade the people of Rome to trust him. He tugs at the Roman’s heart strings when he explains how amazing and thoughtful Caesar was. He says examples of how he put Rome and the Roman people before anything else and how devastating it is now that he was murdered. He tells stories about him helping the starving and hungry people of Rome and how their unhappiness and sorrow reflected on him.He repeatedly stated that Brutus was an honorable man, but his actions were wrong and that Rome has lost an honourable and devoting leader. This, without a doubt, shows his amazing use of pathos throughout his speech. He makes the people of Rome trust what he saying by stating honourable facts about Caesar which shows the usage of both ethos and logos. Antony uses the rhetorical device ethos to help him persuade the people of Rome to trust him. One way he uses...
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...envious conspirators against Caesar, for they all wanted was their time to shine. In the tragedy, Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare the close ‘friends’ of Caesar form a conspiracy to plan his murder. Their dissatisfaction and covetousness of his single handed rule set the stage for the revolutionary action to take place; the murder of the emperor, Julius Caesar. The scheming Cassius, praising Decius, and dedicated Antony all use a labyrinthine combination of rhetorical devices and modes of persuasion to coerce their victims into their desires of either the death of Caesar or the condemnation of the conspirators....
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...Julius Cesar by William Shakespeare is a very well-known piece of literature that is used worldwide. Two characters speak about Cesar's death in the throughout the reading, and they are often compared due to their different approaches. In Julius Cesar, Mark Antony's funeral speech is written better than Brutus' because he employs pathos, repetition, and ethos to go against Brutus' claims without directly attacking him. Mark Antony uses pathos effectively by giving an image that a reader can almost see. This occurs in the second paragraph when Antony says in Act III Scene I, "Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept." Antony is saying in this quote that Cesar sympathized with the poor. This quote appealed to the emotions of the Roman people by allowing them to know that this act of Cesar was not ambitious. This was definitely effective because the citizens of a town are always ready to side with the poor, as was Cesar. Antony uses a second form of Pathos towards the end of his speech in line 59-60 when he presents Cesar's will to the people and it reads, "And they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds. And dip their...
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...If killing someone meant helping the people around you, would you do it? The Tragedy of Julius Caesar portrays an endless amount of betrayal, flaws, and defeat between many characters, inevitably causing death for most of those characters. Brutus' funeral speech is most effective due to his use of logos, pathos, and ethos. Brutus powerfully uses logos in his funeral speech for Caesar. For example, when Brutus says, "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more;” Brutus is very skeptical about the plan of the conspirators to kill Caesar. When he finally joined, he is convinced that he is doing this deed for nothing more than the good of Rome; Caesar was too ambitious and would soon become a tyrant. His ambition causes distress for the entire city of Rome; "death for his ambition." Caesar was becoming too powerful, and it would soon do no good for Rome as Brutus explains in his speech....
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...Julius Caesar is primarily about a leader who is betrayed by his senate and one of the people he trusts the most, Brutus, who lead a conspiracy to assassinate him. The assassination occurs due to Caesar's new power and its threat to the old republican institutions. After the conspirators murder Julius Caesar, Brutus and Mark Antony, a close friend of Caesar, made speeches at Caesar's funeral. Each tries to persuade the crowd to follow their explanation concerning the death. They both use different rhetorical appeals to win the crowd over and in this essay I will be comparing and contrasting those speeches. Shakespeare uses the logo appeal through Brutus' speech, which means Brutus is giving a more rational speech and giving the crowd reasons...
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...Rhetoric is the art of using language effectively for the purpose of persuasion. Rhetoric is an important part of society and is often used in elections and speeches to essentially win over the crowd. In the famous play “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare A character by the name of Marc Antony uses ethos, indirect suggestion and socratic irony to manipulate a crowd to avenge the death of Caesar. Antony first begins by calling the listeners friends, romans and countrymen to establish trust with the crowd, Antony creates the image that he is a trustworthy man when he shows respect towards those who are on the conspirators side, he even introduces Brutus’s argument that Caesar might have been too ambitious for his own good. However Antony...
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...audience CGT tains i: - - - - - - - stains importance within the story as the audience within the Story often correlates strongly with the actual audience. This is especially true for the tragedy of Julius Caesar. Soon after the assassination of Caesar two Speaker, Brutus and Antony, present a side to the argument of whether or not the assassination was justified or not. With Brutus for the assassination and Antony...
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...In Julius Caesar, Mark Antony’s main claim is that Caesar's death was unjust because he had no such ambition for which the conspirators decided her should die for. Antony uses sarcasm to point out the flaws in the conspirator's logic subtly to allow his audience to come up with their own conclusion that Caesar’s death was a treasonous mutiny. Throughout his funeral speech Antony often brings up Brutus and the others as honorable in a sarcastic manner to again, persuade Romans to produce their own conclusion of Brutus and the others. This a very strong, and...
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...In (Act III, scene ii) of Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus, one of the conspirators in the plot to kill Caesar, makes a case to justify why this noble man had to die. After this speech, Caesar’s errand boy Antony, goes to speak about Caesar and pay his respects for the crowd. But while reading his speech, his true intentions are revealed. Despite saying he would not, he argues against Brutus, pitting the crowd against him. What caused Antony to triumph over Brutus? What did he do different that was better than Brutus’s speech? This is an analysis on Brutus’s speech, and what he succeeded, and failed to do with it. Brutus gave the audience zero evidence on why Caesar had to die. He cites his ambition, but is ambition really bad? “As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.” (Anderson, 831) Brutus is also incredibly vague in his speech, and overestimates his audience. He thought they were capable of higher order thinking despite the mob mentality. Brutus is naive as well, believing that just because he is honorable and honest, so too will everyone...
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...A STUDY OF FULVIA by Allison Jean Weir A thesis submitted to the Department of Classics In conformity with the requirements for The degree of Master of Arts Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada December 2007 copyright © Allison Jean Weir 2007 Abstract Who was Fulvia? Was she the politically aggressive and dominating wife of Mark Antony as Cicero and Plutarch describe her? Or was she a loyal mother and wife, as Asconius and Appian suggest? These contrasting accounts in the ancient sources warrant further investigation. This thesis seeks to explore the nature of Fulvia’s role in history to the extent that the evidence permits. Fulvia is most famous for her activities during Antony’s consulship (44 BC) and his brother Lucius Antonius’ struggle against C. Octavian in the Perusine War (41-40 BC). But there is a discrepancy among the authors as to what extent she was actually involved. Cicero, Octavian and Antony, who were all key players in events, provide their own particular versions of what occurred. Later authors, such as Appian and Dio, may have been influenced by these earlier, hostile accounts of Fulvia. This is the first study in English to make use of all the available evidence, both literary and material, pertaining to Fulvia. Modern scholarship has a tendency to concentrate almost exclusively on events towards the end of Fulvia’s life, in particular the Perusine War, about which the evidence is much more abundant in later sources such as Appian and...
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...ordinary mode of speaking or writing. It is what makes up a writer’s style – how he or she uses language. The general thinking is that we are more likely to be persuaded by rhetoric that is interesting, even artful, rather than mundane. When John F. Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” (an example of anastrophe), it was more interesting – and more persuasive – than the simpler, “Don’t be selfish.” Indeed, politicians and pundits use these devices to achieve their desired effect on the reader or listener nearly every time they speak. The stylistic elements in a piece of writing work to produce a desired effect related to the text’s (and author’s) purpose, and thus reveals the rhetorical situation. In classical rhetoric, figures of speech are divided into two main groups: Schemes — Deviation from the ordinary pattern or arrangement of words (transference of order). Tropes — Deviation from the ordinary and principal meaning of a word (transference of meaning). *Important Note: Words marked with an asterisk* are words for which it would be impossible for you to write 3 examples for your weekly vocabulary assignment. In those cases, please write only the definition, in your own words, and the rhetorical uses/effect of that device, or do what you are instructed to do under those words. Please mark these words that deviate from the ordinary assignment with an asterisk* when you type them on your page. Common Schemes...
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