How Does Antony Use Body Language In Julius Caesar

After Brutus finishes his speech, Antony speaks about his opinion on the issue; unlike Brutus, Antony acts slyly and communicates a very manipulative tone to persuade the Romans to rebel. Because of Antony's use of parallelism, he creates vivid reasoning for his speech. He states, “ I come here to bury Caesar, not to praise him” (III.ii.44). By using this device, he shows the people of Rome that he isn't praising Caesar, he is putting the leader to rest. This particular line creates a very manipulative tone, because his speech is all about what great this Caesar has done and how he wants to rebel against the conspirators. Further more, Antony uses a lot of irony to slyly get his point across. One example that he uses throughout the speech is “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is a honorable man” (III.ii.44). Because of the repitition of this ironic statement, the meaning of it changes and intensifies. At first, his tone was sincere, but as the speech progresses, you can see his sarcastic tone increases. Antony does this because he has to use this device to surpass the regulations of Brutus, as well as make the romans listen. Lastly, he uses personification to give life and further meaning to a word. Early in the speech, Antony says, “The evil

　　By keeping his listeners thoroughly engaged, Antony is able to further develop on his purpose by utilizing diverse rhetorical devices. Near the beginning, he makes effective use of parallelism to list Caesar’s selfless deeds, like “when that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept”, which gives the effect that the list is so long that Antony cannot describe it in unique detail. Additionally, his parallel repetition of “Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man” serves as sarcasm. By repeating each good action with these two lines, Antony is getting the audience to contrast Caesar’s endless good deeds with Brutus’s repetitive and conflicting argument. Further on in the speech, Antony uses proslepsis somewhat obviously to reveal Caesar’s will to the people. He tells them that he found “a parchment with the seal of Caesar...tis his will”, yet quickly stops himself from telling anymore. Therefore, the audience is intrigued by the will and its mention reengages any listeners who

Brutus first states, “[Would you rather Caesar] living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead to live a freemen” Then Antony came back with “You all did love him once, not without cause. What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?” After Brutus’ speech, Antony was able to evoke the feeling of the audience and bring them back, before his death and see what they had loved within Caesar before his death. All of his accomplishments were able to evoke the emotions they had before his death and then wanted to actually kill Brutus. In the next Scene, it mentioned a major consequence of the words that Antony had spoken. The famous poet Cinna was killed. However, he wasn’t even involved in the assassination of Caesar. That was how much emotion he was able to evoke in the people in Rome. Although ethos could establish the cold, hard truth, pathos can get under peoples skin and effect them and draw them into your cause. In which case it is Antony's'

By contrast Antony from Julius caesar heavily relies upon the power of language and its ability to exploit the human flaw that is emotion, and by doing so manipulate ones perception through a emotionally (pathos) driven argument. Antony has a greater understanding of the people and knows that they are passionate people who will be swayed by such talk. Also Antony unlike Brutus uses iambic pentameter this shows that he has a higher authority which would make the audience listen more carefully. After each argument Antony produces in Caesar’s defense, he uses irony through the lines “But Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man”. This line is repeated a number of times creating an anaphora. As well as slowly dismantling Brutus’

First, he carries out Caesar’s body triggering an emotional response in the crowd. Then he goes on to state to the crowd that “when the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious…” (Shakespear 56). This causes another emotional response from the crowd to Caesar, making them sympathize with him and feeling loved by their deceased leader. It also is logo for he explains that Brutus did say Caesar was ambitious even though he cried for the poor. To furthermore disprove Brutus’s claim that Caesar was ambition he declares, “I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?” (56). Here he uses rhetorical questioning, directed toward the crowd, to show the obvious answer as well disprove Brutus’s claim. Antony goes on to repeat “yet Brutus says he was ambitious” (Shakespear 56) and “and Brutus is an honorable man” (Shakespear 56) throughout his speech, using repetition to mock as well as retaliate against him.

During most areas of Brutus’ speech he wanted to be portrayed as an authority figure and more noble than Caesar was. When Brutus attempts to justify how ambitious Caesar was and why he had to be killed he questions the citizens by asking “Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than Caesar were dead, to live all freemen”(45)? By saying this Brutus tried to prove Caesar's ambition, but this quote was based purely on the observations that Brutus had noticed about Caesar. He had no way of being absolutely sure Caesar would have done something this malicious. Antony began with a different approach and addressed the citizen as “Friends, romans, countrymen”(46). By starting out addressing them as “Friends” it confirms that Antony is trying to show them that he is one of them and cares for them as well as that he is trustworthy. Then in his speech he begins to challenge Brutus’ argument

Antony's purpose is to get the crowd to turn against Brutus and the conspirators and rebel. Antony, unlike Brutus, adresses the crowd as friends and uses pathos to appeal to the crowd's emotions because people tend to be moved more by emotions than by

When addressing the crowd, Antony displays physical emotions to show his audience and the readers how he feels about the death of Caesar. In order to clarify his perception about Caesar’s death, he expresses his emotions by announcing,

It is important when making a speech that one considers all sides of a case. Brutus does not know how Antony truly feels. He also depends on his own integrity and honor as his way to justify his actions. While Brutus asks the audience questions, the way he asks them does not allow the crowd to truly think and reflect. When Antony asks questions, he asks them in a manner that provokes deeper thinking in the audience. When Brutus is making his case, he does not give any room for the crowd to consider that if Caesar had been made king, good could have come out of it instead of all of the bad possibilities mentioned. Antony knows why Brutus and the Senates kill Caesar and plays that to his advantage when he mocks them in his speech. While he continuously states as promised that Brutus and the others are all honorable men, he manipulates the situation by throwing in examples of acts that Caesar has done that were enriching and compassionate. He then continues to ask the crowd if what Caesar did was ambitious. One of the examples that he states asking about Caesar is, “You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?”

Antony indicates he is upset about Caesar’s murder when he says, “Bear with me. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me”(III.ii.102-104). He says this to show the citizens listening how much he truly carried about Caesar and to also to make the crowd be on his side and not Brutus’s. Antony uses appeal to emotion often in his speech to make the citizens feel saddened about the death of Caesar, another example is “when that the poor have cried, Caesar hath

To keep the people from becoming too hostile during his eulogy, Antony refrained from speaking ill of Brutus and repeated multiple times "And Brutus is an honorable man," (). This repeated sarcastic remark proves how Antony did have the speaking skills he needed to slowly guide the townspeople towards his side. He used sarcasm to falsely portray that he has respect for Brutus when in reality, he knows just how to handle the crowd.

His manner in the way he manipulated the crowd was much cunning than Brutus’s speech. The way he is able to read the crowd and state information that will connect with the audiences emotions. His speech is also much longer than Brutus’, and more effective. Initially, Antony says, “I have to come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” (III.ii.33) which is not true; he basically came to fault the conspirators and tell the crowd to do something about it. Antony also says that he came not to counteract any of Brutus’s words…. but thats exactly what he does. Antony uses reason in his speech when saying that Brutus is ambitious: “I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition” (III.ii.105-106). This ultimately shows Antony’s use of words in his speech are full of irony, acting like he is supporting Brutus by saying, “Brutus is an honorable man” (III.ii.108) which is actually not what he means. His speech is filled with notions and suggestions that is meant to undermine the audiences belief in Brutus. By the time Antony mentions the fourth “honorable man”- the audiences catches on and Brutus and the conspirators are traitors in their eyes. Antony’s use of sarcasm allows for the crowd to fill in the blank of what Antony’s trying to say without breaking the agreement with the conspirators. Antony’s able to manipulate the crowd in such a way that he is able to tell

Antony repeats the word “honorable” several times in his speech. He is doing this in order to emphasize Brutus’ honorability, and make the citizens question it. Antony also repeats the word “ambitious” a signifacant amount of times. Through the repition of “ambitious”, Antony mocks Brutus trying to justify his actions by saying that Caesar was too ambitious. Every time he was that word, he describes an honorable trait of Caesar that contradicts Brutus’ accusation. For example, he mentions that Caesar refused the crown three times , and asks the citizens whether if that would be considered ambitious. “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me,”[He weeps](Shakspeare, III,ii 116-117). Antony uses pathos to draw emotions out of the citizens. This quote emphasizes how many Antony loved Caesar, and the sadness he is feeling now that he is dead. Antony’s grief makes the people of Rome sympathetic to him, which leads to them

The audience is privy to a private conversation in Caesar’s home between Caesar and Lepidus, who were the other two thirds of the “triple pillar of the world” – the triumvirate. The triumvirate were a powerful political and military force; they ruled the Roman Empire after the murder of Julius Caesar. During this conversation, they discuss Antony’s debauched life and his former greatness in Caesar’s home where Caesar feels free to express his opinions honestly and he declares that Antony is “a man who is abstract of all faults” and someone who would “give a kingdom for mirth.” This shows us how far he has fallen in Caesar’s eyes as his tone would be scathing and I imagine he would be pacing as he ranted about Antony