Julius Caesar Rhetorical Devices

This immediantly catches the ear’s of the audience as they hear about how much Mark Antony loved Ceasar. Antony repeats to the people that Brutus was an honorable man. He is being almost sarcastic when he says this though. Antony doesn’t actually think that Brutus is an honorable man. He is mocking Brutus.

The phrase “Honorable Men” throughout Antony’s speech. Before each time he says it, he gives examples of Cassius and Brutus being non-honorable men and then calling them honorable men. This then gets the crowd rethinking their interpretation of Cassius and Brutus to be non-honorable men. 3. (Act III, Scene 2, Lines 88-89) Antony gives concrete evidence the Caesar was good and valuable to Rome since his smart thinking of capturing enemies and having them pay for their freedom payed for the public funds of the city that the people didn’t have to pay anymore.

Through the use of ethos throughout his speech, Marc Antony told the audience that he was a genuine friend of Caesar. In his own words, "He was my friend, faithful, and just to me." This serves to remind the crowd that he is a devoted friend of Caesar. By demonstrating his friendship with Caesar and expressing affection for him, he seeks a similar response from the people of Rome. He shown his regard for everyone and gained their trust by using ethos.

In Mark Antony’s speech, he uses sarcasm to get his point across that Brutus is not an honourable man without directly stating it. “But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man…” (Shakespeare Act 3, Scene 2: 86-87). By Antony saying that Brutus is honourable he is conveying his point that Brutus is in fact not a honourable man as he killed an innocent man; Caesar. It is made apparent that he uses sarcasm as it contrasts with what he is saying about Brutus and Antony repeats

In the excerpt of Mark Antony’s Oration, in Act III and Scene II from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony is trying to make the point that the conspirators are to blame without actually making the point obvious. He does this using multiple methods, such as, repetition, sarcasm, rhetorical questions, and logos. For example, Antony uses repetition in the speech when ambitious is repeated multiple times and honorable is repeated with the phrase “Brutus is an honorable man” (line 10). This creates a sarcastic tone and makes it seem as if Caesar was really not ambitious, and Brutus was really not honorable. Antony uses rhetorical questions, such as, “Did this in Caesar seem ambitious,” to hint to the audience that he does not agree

In our world, there has always been power struggles between people, and egos and personal opinions and motives will always play a role in how we choose to view a person and/or their choices. What happened to Caesar is a reminder to people that power can have different effects on different people, and Antony chose to handle Caesar’s rise to power through violence and used a speech to convince to people of Rome. Perhaps Antony did see something in Caesar that that the rest of the people truely didn’t see, or perhaps he used other people’s visions as a way to get rid of Caesar so he had a chance at power. Perhaps we will never

Antony starts off his speech

Antony was trying to show Caesar was a man who cared about the people of Rome and his murder was unjust. All of these

Antony uses rhetorical appeals and techniques in his speech to turn the people of Rome against those conspiring against Caesar. As a result, the people see Antony as a persuasive and strong leader of Rome. Antony opens his speech at Caesar’s funeral by using ethos to present himself as a credible source and a friend of Caesar. Antony states his purpose in the beginning of his speech by starting with “I come to bury

Similar to Brutus' speech, Antony starts out by expressing his relatability, beginning with, "Friends, Romans, countrymen . . . " signifying that he speaks to everyone equally (Shakespeare). Concurrently, he addresses his authority by speaking in blank verse, the way in which noble people speak. To contest Brutus' logic, Antony makes multiple conjectures. For instance, "He hath brought many captives home to Rome / Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill," describing how Caesar, too, cared deeply for Rome (Shakespeare).

By refusing to read the will several times and admitting that what it contains will cause the people to have such a great love for Caesar that knowing he is now dead will be unbearable, Antony ignites curiosity in the people and furthermore, a subconscious feeling of respect and graciousness toward Caesar. Basically, Antony uses Caesar’s will to convince the people that Caesar was a selfless, kind-hearted man and those who killed him should be ashamed and punished for killing an innocent man. Through Antony’s use of paralipsis, he is able to plant a seed of admiration for Caesar and one of hate for the conspirators in the hearts of the plebeians. In his speech to the citizens, Antony also asks many rhetorical questions to cause his audience to pause and reflect on how they really feel, or how Antony wants them to feel, about certain people and events that have recently become important. In one instance.

“Bear with me, my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me. III.ii.105–6.” Antony uses this line in his speech to show his love for his friend Caesar, that because of his friends death, he’s feeling such deep sorrow, and he misses his friend. He does this to strike compassion in the hearts of the citizens. He wants them to feel saddened by Caesar’s death to get them against the conspirators and on his side; also Antony uses pathos when he says, “when the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.

Antony was determined to discredit the conspirators without

Antony’s claim that Brutus is not an honorable man is supported by Brutus’s lying and backstabbing acts, his biggest one being him killing his “friend” Caesar and trying to claim that he did it for the good of the people. In short, Marc Antony stays true in his argument while Brutus lies as an attempt to get the roman citizens on his side. Along with the other superiorities, Marc Antony also brings to the table more rhetorical variety. He uses verbal irony, personal anecdotes, counterarguments and many other rhetorical devices. An example of personal anecdotes used by Antony would be, “I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?”

First, Antony tries to earn trust in the audience at the obsequy as he states," Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.(Shakespeare 82), which is a signal of