Comparing Mark Antony And Brutus Speeches

In the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar after Caesar is murdered by Brutus and the other conspirators he and Mark Antony give speeches. Brutus’s speech is over the reasons that he and the others murdered Caesar. Mark Antony’s speech the surface telling the citizens of Rome to not go against Brutus but is actually designed to stir up the people of Rome so that they will go into rebellion against Brutus and that so Mark Antony can Rome. Both these speeches give a huge amount of insight into not only the characters of Brutus and Mark Antony but also goes into the central message of Julius Caesar. The outcome of both speeches is that the crowd of people gathered around to hear the speech sides with the speaker and since Brutus speaks first and Mark Antony speaks second the crowd ultimately sides with Mark Antony and rebel against Brutus and all of the other conspirators. The crowd is so stirred up that they beat an innocent poet just because his name was Cinna which was the name of one of the conspirators that killed Caesar.
In Brutus he actually uses many rhetorical devices such as restatement, parallelism, repetition ,rhetorical question and antitheses. Not only that he also uses ethos, pathos and logos which further helps him establish his argument to the citizens of Rome. He uses restatement by saying “hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear” . His use of ethos is when he says “believe me for mine honor”. This is ethos because he is using is honor as a way to have the people to listen and to have them consider is