Julius Caesar When He Sees The Crowd

In the play, Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar is killed a most brutal death. After his death, Brutus and Markus Antonius give speeches about Caesar. Both compel the crowd in their beliefs, but Brutus held the crowd for a good while and then Antony came in and stole the crowd’s hearts. This is a problem for Brutus, because if he held the crowd’s hearts he would live, if he lost the crowd he died. Antony knew this and he used a very blunt way of speaking to make the crowd turn on Brutus and the other conspirators. When Brutus saw the crowd turning, he and the other conspirators fled the city.

In Brutus’s speech he convinces the crowd by using logos, pathos, and ethos. He convinces the crowd that what he did was the good and honorable thing.
He uses ethos when he says “Respect mine honor” this tells the crowd that he is credible. Brutus uses logos when he says he “It’s not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more.” He uses ethos by reminding the crowd that he is an honorable man. Brutus as an Orator was very adept at using words to convince people, he used his adept ability to convince crowd.
Antony was granted the right to speak as long as he didn’t try to get the crowd to mutiny against the conspirators. Antony was smart, because he used a very blunt way of speaking to when over the crowd. He eventually convinced the crowd to mutiny against the conspirators. All the while Antony never said anything bad about them. He like Brutus used pathos, logos, and ethos to convince the crowd against the conspirators, but he also had the will of Caesar, this gave him almost unbeatable advantage, he used this when crowd between him and Brutus. He used logos when he said “ The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: if it were so, it was a grievous fault, and Caesar hath answered it grievously.” He uses pathos when he says “He was my friend, faithful and just to me”. He uses ethos when he constantly repeats how honorable Brutus is. Antony once getting the crowd on the tipping point reads them the will which throws the crowd into a bloodlust.
Hower persuasive Brutus was Antony was more convincing than the traitorous, base, cur Brutus.
The fact that Antony sent the crowd into a bloodlust means that he was more persuasive. The crowd wanted to burn the conspirators houses, and they killed Cinna the Poet. These actions show how persuasive Antony is. All he did was tell them the truth, but when Antony turned around you could see a smirk on his face, he made the crowd do what he wanted them to.
However persuasive, Brutus had completely convinced the crowd that he did the right thing. The crowd wanted Brutus alive. They also wanted to name him king of Rome.Brutus’s biggest arguments were that he did it for the good of Rome, and that he would rather live free with Caesar dead, than live as a slave with Caesar alive. However, at the end of the story Brutus sees his wrong and understands there is no redemption for him, save hell, with this knowledge and knowing if captured he would paraded through the streets of Rome as a slave and later killed.
In the end Antony’s speech had more of an effect than the speech Brutus gave. The actions of the crowd show’d my point is valid. Brutus’s speech was just convincing enough for him to have time to escape. Antony’s speech sent the crowd into a bloodlust. Going of this any logical person can see that Antony had the most persuasive speech out of the two. I rest my
case.