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Throughout, William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, the theme of friendship would prove to be a very delicate and manipulative element. This element would be the very entity that would seal Julius Caesar's fate.

Although most politicians are predominantly loyal to themselves, Antony exhibited faithfulness to Caesar even past death, vowing revenge against the conspirators. Nevertheless, he was shrewd enough to use his love for Caesar to manipulate them into believing his desire to help them.

The conspirators failed to see the irony in his words and Antony used them not only to revenge Caesar, but to benefit himself and gain more power.

As a foil to Brutus, Marc Antony shows his loyalty differently. While Brutus respects Caesar: ,he slays Caesar out of loyalty to the state and its welfare. He says: “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Antony weeps, "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man/That ever lived in the tide of times"). Because he is alone, his speech is evidence of Antony's genuine love and loyalty to Caesar. He wants Caesar alive, not dead for political reasons.
In order to avenge the death of Caesar, Antony employs irony in his oration--"So are they all, all honorable men" as well as emotional pauses to arouse the people to turn against the conspirators.
Later in the play, Antony again manipulates people. In his love for Caesar and loyal promise to avenge him
"A curse shall light upon the limbs of men:/Domestic fury and fierce civil strife/Shall cumber all the parts of Italy.

Like all current politicians, Antony doesn't waste a good crisis. One of the core themes in Julius Caesar is the ability of language to manipulate -- all the major (and many of the minor) characters use language to further their ends. After Brutus departs,

Antony eulogizes Caesar, and calls his assassins "honorable men," repeating that phrase multiple times. Antony cleverly recounts (or fabricates) all the good deeds Caesar did; he leaves the crowd to resolve the dilemma of how "honorable men" could have killed a beneficent leader. Having "turned the tide of public opinion," he uses their outrage to his own ends to discredit Brutus and take over.

Using his sly ways, he convinces the audience at Caesar's funeral that rebelling against the murderers is not only what they need to do but what they want to do as well. What's even better is that he manages to make them believe that this decision was made on their own part; however, it was a plot that he subliminally embedded into their brains. After Brutus spoke ,citizens cried that "Caesar was a tyrant" and felt loyal to him.

Accordingly, he cleverly juxtaposed "ambitious Caesar" with "the noble Brutus" (to convince the listeners of the arrogant Caesar while simultaneously stroking Brutus' ego.

Using persuasive rhetoric concerning the means of Caesar's will, he then clenches the hearts of the people and gains a guarantee of having them on his side. Yet, even though the general welfare of the people is his first priority, Antony never separates his private affairs from his public actions.
Mark Antony was a loyal, noble man who had respected Caesar. However as the conspirators killed Caesar for becoming too powerful and wishing to keep their statuses, Mark Antony’s noble, thoughtful and humble character had changed to a angry hate filled man seeking revenge.

Antony had been successful with achieving his goal, changing the minds of the people of Rome by staying loyal to Caesar then turning the people against the conspirators. Antony had not turned against Caesar but instead worked to fight for Caesar. Mark Antony was fueled by revenge to kill the conspirators; therefore the act was not noble. Nor was the act worthy as after Caesar was killed, there was no necessity to kill the conspirators who had wished to keep the republic of Rome. Although Antony had managed to achieve his goal of avenging Caesar’s death, the end result had not been a noble or worthy act.