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JuliusCaesarEssayLogosPathosEthos
Vicktoria Phanthavong
Ms. Miner
English Honors, Period 2
October 27, 2014
Julius Caesar Logos, Pathos and Ethos Rough Draft William Shakespeare, a well known writer of plays, created several known plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Julius Caesar. In the tragic play of “Julius Caesar” , Julius Caesar was about to be crowned the King of Rome. However, Caesar’s conspirators, including his best friend Brutus, feared that Caesar would take advantage of his power and turn into a tyrant. Leading the conspirators to plan Caesar’s assassination before he was crowned king. Caesar was stabbed to death twenty-three times in the Roman Senate by the conspirators, including Brutus. Soon after, Caesar’s general and ally, Mark Antony, saw Caesar’s dead body and begged the conspirators to be able to die next to Caesar. Brutus denied his request. Antony shook Brutus’s hand with Caesar’s blood in order to join the conspirators and plan Caesar’s revenge. Both Brutus and Antony gave a speech in front of the plebeians of Rome in order to explain Caesar’s death. Both speeches impacted the audience of plebeians using logos, pathos, and ethos. However, between Brutus and Antony's speech, Antony gave a more effective speech because he proved that Caesar was not ambitious by rejecting the crown three times,had a greater emotional connection with his audience and he convinced the audience of plebeians that Brutus was no longer an honorable man. Mark Antony speech was more effective because he reminded the plebeians that Julius Caesar was not ambitious due to that fact he rejected the crown three times. Brutus tells the plebeians the reasoning behind why he were to kill Caesar - that if he were not to kill Caesar, then everyone would die as slaves. Then he said “But, as he was ambitious, I slew him. “(III,ii, 28). In other words, Brutus says the reasoning behind why he killed Caesar was due to the fact that Caesar was ambitious. However, when Mark Antony

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