"Julius Caesar" is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1599. Despite the title of the play is "Julius Caesar," the story revolves around the people surrounding Caesar before and after Caesar's death. When the conspirators kill Caesar in the middle of March; Brutus decides to give a speech in the name of all the conspirators and he also allows Antony to join him during Caesar's funeral in front of a huge crowd. However Brutus and Antony have completely different intentions to accomplish by delivering a speech. Brutus' purpose is to use this opportunity to end all the question marks related to why Caesar has been killed and prove people how much they love Rome and its people, whereas Antony's is to provoke the citizens against the conspirators for Caesar's murder without them knowing. In the end, things turn out to be happening as Antony has planned due to his better-prepared speech regarding the examples and the more affective usage of rhetorical devices, which are mainly ethos, pathos and logos he uses compared to Brutus' speech.
Firstly, Brutus begins his speech courageously with "Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe." (Shakespeare III ii 13-16) Basically Brutus uses ethos to set himself apart from the crowd as some superior because he addresses the listeners so formally and requests the people to rely on his honor. Then, Brutus continues his speech with an antithesis; " not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more" (III ii 22) to create a pathos to prove that he has committed the crime for the good of Rome and its people. However, he fails to explain what danger Caesar has been capable of doing to the citizens and the city by only pointing out Caesar's "ambition" during the time when he earned many glorious victories over the enemies.
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