Rhetorical Analysis Of Caesar's Funeral '

Friend of Caesar, Marc Antony, in the speech “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”, implies that Caesar's death was in fact wrongdoing and undeserved. As he gives his oration in front of the crowd that gathers for Caesar's funeral, the purpose of Antony’s speech is to persuade the audience by utilizing their emotions in order to gain followers in the struggle to find Caesar's assassins. He does this by contradicting the general negative views Brutus has fed to the audience, “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;” The contrast between the two statements has the audience wondering who is telling the truth and who is lying, he wonders how they could