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. …show more content…
Brutus speaks for the slaves in Rome; how they all would die with Caesar continually being their ruler, but now Caesar is dead. Therefore, without Caesar living, the slaves are free and living. Brutus says just this in his funeral speech for Caesar; "Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?" Furthermore, Brutus persuasively appeals to the crowd by his last few statements in his speech. He expresses his sympathy to the people by apologizing if he has offended any of them; he was willing to hear their side of the story too, as he says in these lines; "Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him I have offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him I have offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply." Brutus had great reasoning for Caesar’s death and knew how to manipulate the crowd's