Cicero's Speech Rhetorical Analysis

“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force” according to Adolf Hitler, a master in rhetoric, who was able to sway the people of Germany into electing him as chancellor, and who was able to brain wash an army into creating the biggest mass genocide on the planet. This type of strategy is mimicked by Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Mark Antony’s extensive knowledge of rhetorical strategies, such as appeal to the emotions of the commoners, knowledge of topic and reputation, and syntactical devices eclipse Brutus’ reasoning for killing Julius Caesar and wins over the Roman commoners.

It's actually simple to explain how it works, for a long time long before it had been given the name special philosophers worn it; it works by using philosophy and rhetoric as did Socrates for his teachings. To use this combination take effort examining and wonder, if you were someone trying to explain why you disagree with someone else and you want to get your point across very clearly, then knowing the correct ethics is important for this method. It takes some time for this to complete, there is more than one step to making perfection; which is so interesting to know that Socrates took a bunch of steps to create his wonderful writing. Generally the end of the line comes to a lot of help for the reader and as well for the one writing. Information

Good morning to you. My name is Jholar. I am a pre-dental student that came to Pittsburgh because University of Pittsburgh had the number one dental school in America. Spring of 2015, I was taking two classes which got challenging, so I made a smart move to drop the two classes. I tried seeking help over the phone from the Community College of Allegheny County, and my previous college in Atlanta, but I had no luck.

Based on Homer’s word choice in The Odyssey, he seems to be disgusted with Odysseus’s tone in Book 9. This is clear because in the text Odysseus tells Alcinous the king of Phaecians about his journey up to that time. He explained how his home in Ithaca was the loftiest of them all and goes on to state with no remark that he was detained by the goddesses for seven years. He states, “Loveliest among goddesses, who held me in her smooth caves, to be her heart’s delight, as Circe of Aeaea, the enchantress, desired me…But in my heart I never gave consent.” (Line 20). This means that Odysseus sees himself as a lady’s man, he explains how the goddesses desired him and wanted him to be their “hearts delight”. Homer seems disgusted with Odysseus at

Throughout the Pro Archia Poeta Oratio, Cicero employs many elements in his speech to convince the jurors in the trial of Archias’ innocence in regard to his citizenship and his contributions to Roman society. He achieves this not through brash accusations or bragging of his own character, but by through epideixis, or praising speech, as he praises the ability of the jurors, Archias’ tale of glory, his character, and his contributions to the Roman empire. Throughout his speech, Cicero uses epideictic rhetoric to interweave elements of pathos, ethos, and logos to convince the jurors of Archias’ legal, and expected, status of citizenship.

Many people know that Julius Caesar was betrayed and killed by many people who he had thought to be his friends. Some less common knowledge is that he did still have friends and others who stayed loyal to him. One man named Mark Antony was the most loyal of them all, even after Caesar’s death. When he found out Caesar had been killed, he began plotting to get on the traitor’s good sides and make it seem as if he had joined them so that he could convince the citizens to fight against them with him. He deceived the traitors and convinced them to let him speak at Caesar’s funeral, and in this speech he turned the citizens against them using very powerful rhetorical skills. After he had drove the traitors from the city, he took control of the city and led them to victory in a war against the conspirator’s armies. These are three telling examples that prove Antony’s skill and potential as a leader.

Julius Caesar Funeral Speech Analysis There are many different ways to appeal to an audience or any group of people. One very clever way of doing this would be to use logos, pathos and ethos. Logos uses inductive or deductive reasoning by citing facts as evidence, therefore proving their point using logical evidence. Another technique that an author can use is Pathos, when using pathos the author tries to appeal to the emotions of the audience by describing the effect of a situation, essentially trying to affect the audience’s emotions. When using Ethos it is important for the author to establish themselves as a trustworthy, respectful, and knowledgeable person.

    In Brutus’s speech, he uses ethos to get people to trust him. Brutus tells the crowd to believe him because of his honour and to keep his honour in mind during the speech. Brutus also mentions Caesar being ambitious but doesn’t explain how or what Caesar did that was ambitious, he just wants you to believe him beause he is honourable.

Throughout the entirety of his speech to people, Anthony snuck in many devices to sway the people of Rome onto his side. Anthony would always get around to telling a story about Caesar and at the end of that, he would add a question, which he does not want the crowd to answer, thus making it a rhetorical question. The purpose for asking a rhetorical question is to make people rethink themselves or their views and motives; as is the same for Anthony, who is trying to provide insight to Brutus’s reasoning in the killing Caesar and depict it as misconstrued. Brutus says to the people that he had slain Caesar due to his “ambitions” but, Anthony wants the people to rethink that opinion by listing examples of Caesar being a heroic leader of the people,

Aristophanes exposes the dangers of Socratic philosophy and provides a direct solution in restoring customs and belief in Zeus. He does not directly critique Socratic philosophy on the grounds of truth, in fact he may even agree with some of the views of human nature, morality, and customs he attributes to Socrates. However, this does not stop him from portraying Socrates as a character who instead of being overwhelmingly concerned with objective truth is rather worried about winning arguments with the use of manipulative rhetoric. Aristophanes depicts Socrates as a sophist in this text and discredits him for his philosophy towards objective truth and the philosopher kings’ ability to identify it. Relativism is the view that truth and falsity

Plato’s attempt in Phaedrus to establish a basis for a true art of rhetoric is seen through his characterizations and plot developments conveying themes throughout. What is true art of rhetoric? True art of rhetoric is the art of influencing soul and mind. Adapting to audience’s soul is the art of rhetoric, soul of love, soul of lust, and soul of honor. It is a means of persuasion regardless of content or a means of dialectic between two people or more who want the truth regardless of who wins. “Rhetoric is the art of directing the soul by means of speech” (Plato). Plato centers on what happens in the soul when persuasion occurs. The art of rhetoric is a soul-moving power of discourse. Discourse prompted by the love of wisdom and philosophy,

The most predominate and important aspect In the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare are the speeches given to the Roman citizens by Brutus and Antony, the two main charaters, following the death of Caesar. Brutus and Antony both spoke to the crowd,using the same rhetorical devices to express their thoughts. Both speakers used the three classical appeals employed in the speeches: ethos, which is an appeal to credibility; pathos, which is an appeal to the emotion of the audience; and logos, which is an appeal to the content and arrangement of the argument itself. Even though both speeches have the same structure Antony’s speech is significantly more effective than Brutus’s.

Antony gave the most effective funeral speech to thoroughly convince the Roman people to side with him and rebel against the conspirators. In order to accomplish this, Antony uses the persuasive techniques logos, ethos, and pathos.

Brutus’s main goal in his speech was to justify his action of killing Caesar in hope that the citizens would be in agreement with him and understand that he had Rome’s best interests at heart. Brutus attempts to persuade the people through ethos, pathos, and logos. He mainly uses ethos. He continuously says that he is an honorable man who loved Caesar but loved his country more. He uses an example of ethos when he says, “Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have respect for mine honour, that you may believe.” In this quote, he uses restatement to show his credibility as an honorable man. Because he approached the people in this way, they think, “Why would an honorable man, such

Brutus’s speech uses ethos to persuade the citizens of Rome that killing Caesar was a the right thing to do.In Act 3, Scene 2, 35-36, he says “ Then none have I offended. I have done no more to Caesar than you shall do to Brutus.” Here Brutus used ethos. He uses his credibility as an honorable man to persuade the citizens that he did the correct thing.