Brutus Speeches At Caesar's Funeral

These excerpts from act 3 of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 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 not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” He is trying to persuade Caesar’s fans that he truly loved Caesar but he did what he did for the better of Rome and it’s