Julius Caesar Ethos Pathos Logos

Ethos, Logos, and Pathos are the three tools that have been used to persuade any individual, and throughout Julius Caesar you tend to see towards the end Brutus and Antony using these tools to pursued the crowd of people. While Brutus used ethos, logos, and pathos to try and justify his reasoning for killing Caesar, Antony used them to get the citizens in an uproar and avenge Caesar’s death. Logos is used to persuade by using logic, Ethos’s appeal is based on the character of whoever is speaking or being spoken of, and Pathos is used by appealing to your emotions. At the end of the play you see Brutus and Antony become very good at persuasive speaking by making the citizens believe them and in turn making them choose who’s side they would be
In Julius Caesar Marc Antony’s speech used many rhetorical devices but the one he mainly used was logos. He appealed to logic and reasoning to persuade the citizens that the fall of Caesar was not just. During Antony’s speech he starts by building up Caesars character by saying “I come to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me.” (3, 2, #85-86) right here Antony is showing what a great friend that Caesar was to him and is trying to show his admiration for his friend to try and get the citizens feel the same way about him. Antony always points out another flaw in Brutus’s statement when he said that Caesar was ambitious by saying “You all did see on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he thrice refuse. Was this ambition? yet Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man.” Antony once again contradicts Brutus, he does this in an innocent way but it’s still very effective in a way to where it takes away Brutus’s credibility, not only that but its once again showing Caesar’s true character that the conspirators were trying to besmudge. Brutus in his speech says “Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men.” (3, 2, #23-24) this part of his speech was very powerful because it left the citizens to ponder if this would have really happened leaving the citizens to sway
While each of them used the same rhetorical devices such as logos which is used to persuade by using logic, Ethos’s appeal is based on the character of whoever is speaking or being spoken of, and Pathos is used by appealing to your emotions. Even though Brutus and Antony each used these devices to persuade the people of Rome overall Antony’s speech was better because of the way he captured the heart and minds of the