If your friend was murdered, do you think that you would have more passion in your speech rather than the murder? In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus, a Roman citizen, is convinced that killing the potential king of Rome would cause nothing but good to the Roman citizens and city itself. What he didn’t know was what would actually happen. Him and a handful of others murder Julius Caesar so that he wouldn’t become a tyrant. After Caesar's best friend Antony finds out about the murder, he sets out to get revenge for his friend. Before he goes on an escapade to defend his friend’s honor, he wishes to say a speech to the Roman people at his funeral, in which he effectively uses pathos, logos, and ethos to convince them to despise the murders of his friend.
Antony executes using pathos in his funeral speech for Caesar. He appeals to the common people's emotions by referring to them as his friends rather than Brutus who did not. Notice he adds 'friends' into his speech in this quote, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." He also uses pathos when he says he loved Caesar because he knows that they did as well. This
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He uses this type of writing when he says that him and Caesar were friends. This is providing information that makes Antony more credible. "He was my friend, faithful and just to me." One other time he uses ethos is when he says he offered him the crown three times. This provides information that makes them lead to believe that Caesar was a very honorable man because he was offered the crown to become king and denied it. This quote is where you will find this type of ethos. "I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse." Even though he did not use ethos very much, it still made an impact on his speech so that the people would be convinced to follow him, rather than
Antony does exactly that when he shows the audiences each stab wound each conspirator made in Caesar making the audience or the citizens for Rome feel sad for Caesar and generate anger towards the conspirators such as Brutus, Cassius, and etc. Antony uses it again when he reads Caesars will and after he reads that he gave land and money to every Roman it makes the audience feel guilty for calling Caesar a tyrant and such. And then he uses pathos when he says “Caesar was my friend, faithful and just to me.” This makes the audience sad for Antony that he lost his best friend. Brutus also pleads the people's feelings when he says “did love Caesar, but I loved Rome more.” This makes the audience proud to be a Roman or feel patriotism and it shows that he puts Rome before his friendships. Antony uses the people's emotions against Brutus and Brutus does the
Mark Antony uses Pathos, or the emotional appeal, to help show that it was not right to kill Caesar by explaining that
Antony uses an abundance of pathos in his speech. One example is: “Caesar was my friend and just to me” (III, ii, 86). Using pathos helps the audience make connections with him. He also reads Caesar’s will which makes the people feel guilty about turning against Caesar during Brutus’ speech. He shows them the stabs wounds on Caesar’s coat and names which conspirator stabbed him. The Roman people now feel pity and anger towards the conspirators. Overall, Antony was smart with his words and won over the Roman people better than
In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the dictator of Rome is assassinated by his senators. Among which was one of his closest advisors, Brutus. Another friend of Caesar, named Marc Antony, hears of this assassination and is grief-stricken. Together the two men speak to the citizens of Rome about their views of what is right. Firstly Brutus speaks, soon after Antony recites his side of the story. Although the crowd is swayed by both men, Antony is able to maintain the support of the people with his ideas and values. Antony was the better speech for a varying amount of rhetoric he used, among which are pathos and juxtaposition. Brutus uses these as well, but not as adequately.
Using the rhetorical strategy of Pathos, Antony says, “You did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?” By saying this, Antony reminds the commoners of their love for Caesar, and uses not just Pathos, but also inductive reasoning to help stir their emotions. Brutus’s use of Pathos was good, but not as effective. Brutus says, “ . . . Brutus’ love to Caesar was no less than his.” It may have appealed to their emotion of love, but Brutus didn’t stir the Commoners’ love for Caesar as well as Antony did.
Brutus states that he did not chose to kill Caesar because he loved him less, it is the fact that he loved Rome more. Another example where Brutus shows sentiment in his speech is when he says, “There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune, honour for his valour; and death for his ambition” (3.1.25-27). Brutus explains the different ways the Plebeians and himself feel after Caesar's death. They are upset because of his strong love for Rome, happy because he is out of misery, and honored because of his great strength. These are both instances where pathos is being used because Brutus opens up and shows his true emotion on how him and the Plebeians feel after Caesar’s
Brutus also uses pathos in scene 2 of act 3. He tries to persuade the crowd by using emotions. He says "There are tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honor for his
In the story Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, Caesar gets killed and both Antony, his friend, and Brutus, his main killer speak at his funeral. Brutus, the killer, was the first to speak. His claim was that Caesar was too ambitious and was going to end up being a dictator. He used pathos in his speech when he stated "There is tears, for his love; joy, for his fortune; honor..." This made the crowd think that he didnt hate Caesar, but loved him.
Antony uses it when he talks about how Brutus" was Caesar's angel" (III, ii, 182). This is pathos because he is making the plebeians feel a sense of pity, sympathy. It is effective in that he is showing that he can't fathom why Brutus who was loved and trusted, by Caesar, would partake in the assassination of Caesar, allowing the crowd to have a sense of anger towards Brutus. Antony also uses pathos in his speech when he says "How dearly Caesar loved him!" (III, ii, 183). This also appeals to pathos because he is talking about how much Caesar loved Brutus, and he cannot understand why Brutus would do such a thing. It is effective because it makes the plebeians angered with Brutus somewhat if not fully angered. Antony uses these details to gain a sense of pity and sympathy from the plebeians. Antony used pathos to make the plebeians start to change their mind by the use of pity and
In Mark Antony's funeral speech for Caesar he uses pathos to convince the plebeians that the death of Caesar is a tragedy for the people of Rome. By using Brutus’s betrayal of Caesar, “And as he plucked his cursèd steel away,Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it, As rushing out of doors, to be resolved If Brutus so unkindly knocked, or no….” emits sympathy from the Romans that “Caesar’s angel.”,Brutus, helped kill him. To convince the Romans more Antony
Ethos logos and pathos was a big part of these speeches. Antony and Brutus used different ones to appeal to the crowed at the funeral. Brutus used more logos. He appealed the audiences with reasoning and logic. He told them why he did it and all the reasons he did. On the other hand, Antony used pathos. He used the crowds emotion to overcome what they were feeling feeling inside. He used the sadness that the Romans had to overcome what he did.
For example, Brutus uses pathos when he says, “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more” (III.ii.22-23). This shows that Caesar used pathos because he’s trying to appeal to the people’s emotion by saying he loves Rome. He’s telling the people of Rome that he had to kill Caesar because he loves them and was trying to protect them. Also, Brutus demonstrates ethos when he says, “Believe me for mine honour” (III.ii.14-15). This shows that Brutus uses ethos because he’s trying to prove his credibility. He’s trying to tell the people that he has honor, so they should trust him for killing Caesar. This is how Brutus uses rhetorical devices to get his purpose out to the
Mark Antony successfully uses pathos in his speech to persuade the audience. He repeatedly uses emotion to connect to the people of Rome. The following quote is an example of pathos, ”My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar.” In this case,the deep sorrow Mark Antony has for Julius Caesar’s passing is displayed,and helps him connect with the audience. Mark Antony is very effective when he uses pathos in his speech. Consequently, when Mark Antony connects with his audience on a emotional level he can easily persuade them.
William Shakespeare’s use of Pathos in Mark Antony’s speech is clearly evident. In order to understand the concept and idea of Pathos, and for it to be effective, one must know what it is. The appeal of Pathos uses words or passages to activate emotions, and strike some sort of feeling in the audience’s body. If written effectively, the appeal of Pathos emits an emotional response from the audience. “My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me” (3.2.106-107). Antony elicits both sadness and sympathy from his audience. The death of Julius Caesar, and the use of Pathos is very important in winning over the audience’s appeal. Antony is obviously very angry with what had happened to Julius Caesar, due to the fact that Antony was a good friend with him. “And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would
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