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Julius Caesar Rhetorical Analysis
The most imporant in persusive spects so ofcourse. pers**=dence and in The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare. Brutus and Antony both spoke to the crowd after Juluis Caesar was assassinated Both speakers used three rhetorical devices: ethos, which is an appeal to credibility: pathos, which is an appeal to the emotions and logos, which is an appeal to logic. In the play. Anthony delivers astronger and more persuasive funeral oration due to his effective use of ethos, pathos and logos.
Both speakers used an ethical appeal to the crowd and established their credibility first Brutus begins by saying he was Caesar's friend but because he was ambitious he had to kill him. Brutus also said “believe for my honor and have respect to mine
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He saw that Caesar “was ambitious, [so hel slew him” and only wanted to for the good of Rome. Brutus then asked rhetorical questions to the crowd asking if he offended anyone by making Rome better and fighting for their rights. Anthony also used logos in a cause and effect sort of manner, but he focused a lot on Brutus's weak points. He makes the crowd recall how he “thrice presented him with a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse” and so he asks how can Caesar been ambitious. He seems to prove that Caesar didn’t want to be king and and that he cared for the good of Rome and not himself by asking rhetorical questions, like Brutus did in his speech. Anthony took apart Brutus's speech and used it’s weak points for his gain and in doing so he developed a lot more effective logos and and proved his point to the …show more content…
Antony did a more sufficient job of getting his point across. He used ethos, pathos and pathos more effectively and got his point across better to the Roman people,
And because of this Brutus dies at the end. Sorry,

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