Comparative Essay on the speeches of Mark Antony and Brutus Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. It is about a group of conspirators in Rome who kill their king‚ Julius Caesar. The play follows the life of Brutus (at the time) - a conspirator yet an honourable man. His rival throughout the novel is Mark Antony- Caesar’s good friend. The pair’s likeness and unlikeness becomes clear at Caesar’s funeral where both make a speech justifying what one another is doing. Brutus appeals to the
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Based on these two speeches‚ it’s quite obvious who won the crowd over. It was Antony‚ but him and Brutus had similar tactics in how to persuade the audience. Along with that‚ they also had many different ways they persuaded.Some of the similarities and differences will be listed. Altogether though‚ Antony and Brutus both had very persuading speeches. Antony and Brutus used quite a few of the same tactics to persuade the audience. They both used ethos to try to make the audience relate more to
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Marc Antony‚ Brutus‚ and Cassius are all critical characters in William Shakespeare’s famous play‚ The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Due to their distinctive personalities and values‚ there is no trait that all of these characters share‚ although they do share some traits with one another. Firstly‚ Marc Antony and Cassius are manipulative in nature‚ while Brutus is not. Secondly‚ the root of Brutus and Cassius’ failure is their personality flaw‚ while Marc Antony proves strong in all the ways they prove
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Brutus and Mark Antony both had relationships with caesar. Mark Antony was Caesar’s best friend and Brutus was just an acquaintance. Both men spoke at Caesar’s Funeral however‚ the speeches and the meaning behind them is very different. Brutus’s speech is based around him justifying why he killed Caesar and that it was for the good of rome. When he starts his speech Brutus addresses the crowd by saying “Rome‚ countrymen‚ lovers…” which shows that he puts the good of Rome before all else. He says
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in order to be "free." Antony‚ who found no logic in 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‚ leader of the conspiracy‚ gave a good address‚ but the Romans didn’t react to it as much as they did for Antony’s. A battle erupted‚ and most of the conspirators committed suicide. The styles of the two speeches were very different from each other. Brutus was first to speak. He
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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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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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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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After the murder of Caesar both Brutus and Antony gave speeches to the public. These speeches were used to convince the crowd of the justness of Caesar’s murder.The two men both used different methods of persuasion to convince the people what they thought was the truth. Antony had a more effective speech than Brutus did because he had physical evidence‚ stronger emotions‚ and better methods of persuasion which he used to turn the crowd against Brutus. When Brutus got up in front of the people he
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characters Brutus and Antony both make speeches at at Caesar’s funeral that display a great deal of meaning. Mark Antony‚ a dear friend of the recently-deceased Caesar‚ and Brutus – once a friend of Caesar‚ later his assassin – are diametrically opposed at the outset of these occurrences. Brutus gives Antony the opportunity to make a speech at the funeral‚ however‚ we find him under some rather serpentine conditions. Fearing rejection from the Roman population for his actions‚ Brutus intimidates
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