The Assassination Of Brutus In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Would you kill your good friend for a title of power? In the play “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, which takes place in Rome, Italy in 44 BC, Julius Caesar is murdered by his friend Brutus, with the help of Cassius and a group of men who completely despise Caesar. After Caesar is assassinated Mark Antony, Caesar’s close friend, asks Brutus to have a proper burial and to speak at Caesar’s funeral. Cassius disagrees to let him speak but Brutus agrees to let him speak under certain criterias and rules: Mark Antony may not blame Brutus and his men for the death, Antony has to say he may speak because permission was granted for him to do so by Brutus, and Antony must speak after Brutus finishes giving his own speech about the assassination
This reasoning is not wrong, but what makes Mark Antony’s speech more effective is that Antony’s is based off evidence and Brutus’ is reasoned with possibility. Brutus asks the people, “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?”(I 12). Brutus killed Caesar to protect Rome, but he wasn’t king yet. How could he have known what kind of king Julius Caesar would be without giving him the chance to be crowned first? He only accused and assumed he would be a king of disgrace to the people of Rome. In Mark Antony’s speech he says, “He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the coffers fill”(II 16). By Caesar not only winning the war, he brought home the Romans, which shows that he didn’t do that for himself, he did it for the people and Rome! This proves that Antony’s speech was most effective because, Mark Antony’s reasonings made more sense in the people’s mindsets over Brutus trying to express the possibility of Caesar being a bad king to the people of
Mark Antony persuaded the Romans more effectively by using evidence and wording his speech in a very important manner. Brutus’ love for Rome was expressed incorrectly by killing Julius