...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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...Rhetorical Devices in Julius Caesar “There’s not a nobler man in Rome than Antony” (Shakespeare 3.2.134). This is a great example to represent the huge effect that Mark Antony’s speech had on the citizens of Rome. In Rome, Italy during 44 B.C., all the citizens of Rome were gathered together for the funeral of Julius Caesar after his tragic death. Characters Brutus and Mark Antony both delivered a speech at this event sharing their thoughts and opinions on Julius Caesar before and after his death. There was a very clear distinction to determine who had the most powerful speech. This character was Mark Antony. Shakespeare’s character Mark Antony delivers as very powerful speech after the death of Julius Caesar to sway the beliefs of the Plebeians in the right direction. Mark Antony had such a huge effect on the crowd by cleverly...
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...their deceased friend, Julius Caesar, convincing the people to join their side and beliefs. In the book, Julius Caesar, By William Shakespeare, Brutus and the other Conspirators went against Julius Caesar for the benefits of Rome and the people. They believed that Julius Caesar had too much power and would eventually abuse it. Mark Antony was Julius Caesar’s “sidekick”, and would help Caesar out in any situation. Both Brutus and Mark Antony used rhetorical appeals, logos, ethos, and pathos, to persuade the crowd that julius caesar was killed wrongly and unjustifiably or for the better of rome. Brutus and Mark Anthony tried to persuade the audience by using pathos to get their point across to the crowd. They both used emotion to make the audience feel sympathetic and understanding of their point towards the disagreement. When Brutus was presenting his speech he used Pathos to make the crowd understand why he killed Julius Caesar. Brutus said, “not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more.” He wanted the people to understand that he wanted the best for Rome and the only way...
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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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...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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...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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...timeless playscript Julius Caesar, written by the famed Shakespeare, is notable for its riveting plot, thoughtfully-planned characters, and most of all its use of rhetorical devices and persuasive appeal. Following the assassination of Julius Caesar, two funeral speeches are given at the leader’s memorial- one by Brutus, who was a main conspirator against Caesar, and one by Caesar’s closest friend, Antony. Within Antony’s speech, the mourning friend of the late leader of Rome uses multiple strategies to win the public over in support of Caesar, including pathos, aposiopesis, and rhetorical questions. By effectively doing so, Antony establishes himself as a successful orator and the majority of the Roman republic began to believe in Caesar’s...
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...Who Said It Better? Julius Caesar, a play driven by persuasion, is known for rhetorical devices used by many prominent characters to sway one another. The use of rhetorical devices can be seen in the monologues of Marc Antony and Brutus during Caesar’s funeral. Though both executed rhetorical devices well, Marc Antony’s use of emotions made his monologue more successful in convincing and riling the crowds. He uses his sympathy, strategy and devices to his advantage. To begin, Marc Antony’s speech was more personal and emotional rather than cold and rehearsed. He opens his speech with, “Friends, Romans and Working men…”(Shakespeare.3.2). Marc Antony uses this opening to join everyone together. Unlike Brutus, who is speaking above the crowd,...
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...Summary of Mark Antony’s Speech In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, there is a character named Mark Antony, he gives a speech at Julius Caesar’s funeral. People consider this speech to be one of the most finest and most remembered lines written by Shakespeare. This speeches main function was used to invalidate Brutus’s convincing statement of how Caesar actually died, Antony also wanted to shift the mood of the crowd. Mark Antony knew that Brutus had made the crowd believe that the death of Caesar was going to be most beneficial towards Rome. Brutus had just finished giving his speech on what had happened to Caesar and it was Mark Antony’s turn to address the crowd and he knew that he would have to hold a neutral ground at first to gain some support of the “plebeians” in line 75, Antony says, “ I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”. Antony then begins to talk about how Caesar is remembered by his bad deeds, but then he goes forth and addresses them on how Caesar also did good things he had done. “The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones…” in this quote Mark Antony uses a literary device called personification and in this quote Antony personifies the attributes of good and evil. Antony also uses another device called reiteration to suit a common person’s emotion. Antony keeps on repeating “Brutus is an honorable man”. However Antony uses a sarcastic tone whenever he mentions these words. Antony returns again and again...
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...Composers of texts often seek to present their opinions in such a way that influences the responder to agree or empathise with the composer. In both Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth, the composers’ perspectives on these historical figures and events are portrayed in unique ways which contradict and are contradicted by perspectives from other sources. Reasons for these differences can include the form of text and context of the composer, both of which affect not only the composer’s perspective, but the way in which they present it. Both Julius Caesar and Elizabeth are forms of text which serve primarily to entertain the audience. Even supposedly ‘historical’ plays and films do not have to adhere strictly to the ‘facts’ of history, but often stray from such accuracy in order to enhance entertainment value. For this reason, the viewpoint they may present on historical events or personalities can often conflict with accounts from other, more strictly historical, sources. For example, Julius Caesar was largely based off and echoes Plutarch’s Life of Caesar, and yet the two differ notably in many respects, such as the depiction of the funeral oratories given by Brutus and Antony. In Plutarch’s history, events are recounted very drily and matter-of-fact: “Brutus… came down from the capitol, and spoke to the people.” There is no direct quotation, details of the speech, or emotive language. Shakespeare on the other hand has both men give a detailed and well-crafted...
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...Tragedy of Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony uses his words to change the perspective of the commoners about the horrid death of their former commander Julius Caesar. Throughout the play, the commoners are found changing their minds on issues constantly and can be swayed just by words spoken by Antony. The intentional use of rhetoric used by Antony at Caesar’s own funeral persuades the commoners to revolt against the senators. Throughout Antony’s speech, he uses all three modes of persuasion (ethos, pathos, and logos) to make his funeral orientation a success. Ethos is a key point in making Antony an influential speaker towards his audience. Antony’s use of ethos helps convince the commoners to take his side and influences the commoners. When Antony explains how much of a friend he was to Caesar, he convinces the audience of how qualified he is to speak at Caesar’s funeral. Antony states, “Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. / He was my friend, faithful and just to me;” (III.ii.85-86). Antony explains to the commoners that he has in fact been one of Caesar’s noblest men, an honorable friend....
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...There are many themes shown in Julius Caesar, but the ones that are most frequently known are suicide and psychological manipulation they were both tools heavily used by Cassius and Antony. Their close friends also manipulate lots of people in the play. It starts with Brutus being mislead by Cassius to think that killing Julius Caesar will be the best for Rome (1, 2, 32-321). Cassius is able to influence Brutus into thinking that Caesar is the same as Brutus. He says, “Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that Caesar/ Why should that name be sounded more than yours?” (1, 2, 142-143) Cassius also uses many other examples to manipulate Brutus. Later, when the conspirators gather at Brutus’ home, Brutus thinks the other conspirators are...
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...play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (JC) as Brutus persuades the citizens of Rome to understand the righteousness of his delusional actions in his eulogy at Caesar’s funeral. The way Brutus charismatically urges the approval of the Romans is similar to the way Hitler brainwashed the citizens in Germany to exile Jews with his hypnotic way with words. Brutus’s intelligence does not diminish in the slightest as his choice of words cause the citizens’ change of heart towards his sinful actions and intentions, proving the theme that words can be powerful weapons. Brutus is very convincing when he argues that he assassinated his friend for the good of Rome, simply because “[he loved] Rome more” (JC 3.2.20) than his best friend. Brutus participates in killing Caesar, and he stands before the citizens saying that his death is a good thing because Rome will stay a Republic and not go back to an empire. He explains that while he loves his friend, his heart was always set on what was best for Rome. Brutus cleverly questions the citizens with, “who here is so vile that will not love his country” (JC 3.2.28-9). Brutus tests the citizens’ integrity and how civilized they are with this rhetorical device. He questions whether or not they would put their country first because he wants the citizens to put themselves in his shoes, so to speak. Brutus thoughtfully structures his speech with conscious decisions on the diction he uses so that he can use his words to better appeal to the citizens and...
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...5 Rhetorical Devices in Speeches of Brutus and Antony 1. As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. This line from Brutus’s speech is an example of paralellism because Brutus says I ___ for him, as he was ______. These repeated phrases then form paralleism in the sentence. 2. Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. This line from Brutus’s speech is an example of anaphora because the same groups of words “who is here” and “if any speak, for him I have offended” are repeated at the beginnings of successive clauses 3. For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men— This line from Antony’s speech is an example of antimetabole because the words honourable men are repeated in succcessive lines, in reverse grammatical order. 4. Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more This sentence from Brutus’s speech is an example of antithesis because there is a contrast between loving Caesar less and loving Rome more. 5. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition. This line from Brutus’s speech is an example of isocolon because each successful clause is...
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...5 Rhetorical Devices in Speeches of Brutus and Antony 1. As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. This line from Brutus’s speech is an example of paralellism because Brutus says I ___ for him, as he was ______. These repeated phrases then form paralleism in the sentence. 2. Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. This line from Brutus’s speech is an example of anaphora because the same groups of words “who is here” and “if any speak, for him I have offended” are repeated at the beginnings of successive clauses 3. For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men— This line from Antony’s speech is an example of antimetabole because the words honourable men are repeated in succcessive lines, in reverse grammatical order. 4. Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more This sentence from Brutus’s speech is an example of antithesis because there is a contrast between loving Caesar less and loving Rome more. 5. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition. This line from Brutus’s speech is an example of isocolon because each successful clause is...
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