shows a lot about the art of persuasion. This is due to many things that are said in both Brutus’ and Antony’s speeches at Caesar’s funeral. Despite this similarity‚ both of the speeches are very different from one another. While Brutus is trying to sympathize with Caesar’s fan while still trying to reason with them‚ Antony is very aggressive and mentions how Caesar didn’t deserve to be betrayed. In Brutus’ speech‚ he tries to reason with Caesar’s fans without trying to offend them. He said‚ “it’s
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Antony’s Funeral Speech: A Close Reading The following are rhetorical appeals used to persuade or prove an argument. ¬ Ethos is an appeal to the audience that the speaker is a credible authority on the matter that is being presented. It is how the speaker convinces the audience that he or she is qualified to speak on the particular subject. ¬ Pathos is an appeal to the audience’s emotions. It can be in the form of figurative langauge‚ a passionate delivery‚ or even a simple claim
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Shakespeare’s Rendition of Julius Caesar death‚ the character Brutus must persuade the audience into believing his murder of Caesar was justified. To be sure that he is imprinted as a “heroine” for saving the roman empire he makes Mark Anthony go‚ knowing that the audience will believe him for he was Caesars best friend. Brutus makes sure that he implies him as a good guy by giving him restrictions on what he could and could not say‚ but ultimately Brutus fails with his plan for he did not listen to Anthony’s
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The Effects of the Speeches of Brutus and Antony Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. It’s about a group of conspirators who kill their king‚ Julius‚ in order to be free. Antony‚ opposed to the assassination‚ felt that he should avenge Julius’s death. He delivered a speech that convinced the Romans that the murder was unjust‚ invoking their rebellion. Brutus‚ head of the conspiracy‚ also gave a good speech‚ but the Romans didn’t react to it. A battle erupted‚ and most
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There are differences and similarities between Brutus and Mark Anthony that are pronounced‚ and they deserve thorough investigation over there speeches that were made during there era of time and need further examination to help compare and contrast these speeches to obtain the point of views of many. Brutus was very loyal and had a mindset to sacrificed himself for Rome. He was a good leader who put Rome before himself always doing what he thought would be better for Rome‚ and before he was loyal
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Brutus and Mark Antony both give meaningful speeches after Julius Caesar’s death‚ while Mark Antony made his speech more dramatic with more shown emotion to give off his message Brutus relied on his crowd to believe that what he did was for the good of Rome and not for his own personal gain. Brutus’ speech was meant to ease the crowd out of their hatred for him and the other conspirators for Brutus didn’t want the Roman people to break up into an uproar due to Caesar’s death and he did this by
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assassinated‚ there were speeches to the citizens by Brutus and Antony. The speeches were contrary to each other. Brutus speech was to calm them down and explain why Julius was killed (he used logos and ethos). One of Brutus’s friends‚ Antony‚ also made a speech to the people. His whole purpose in the speech was to get everyone angry and go against the conspirators. He wasn’t allowed to talk bad about the conspirators‚ so he tried to get everyone angry through their feelings (pathos). Brutus first addresses
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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
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in his Harfleur speeches with the effectiveness of the language in Anthony and Brutus’ speeches In Henry V‚ Henry uses rhetoric very effectively as he persuades the Governor at Harfleur to surrender and encourages his troops onward with his ‘Once more unto the breach’ speech. This is very similar to Anthony and Brutus of Julius Caesar as they use rhetoric to influence the ‘mob’; firstly Brutus wins the crowd over and they believe the death of Caesar is a good thing and then Anthony turns them around
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Compare and contrast the funeral speeches of Brutus and Mark Antony. Which is more effective and why? When Brutus goes up to speak to the crowd he appeals to them as “Romans” before all else. As this keeps with his reason for joining the conspiracy the audience can see that he is honourable and trustworthy. The roman public may also know this because they hail him as “noble” Brutus and Brutus also asks them at the start of his speech to “Believe me for mine honour”. Brutus repeatedly uses “honour”
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