In the first few scenes of the play, Anthony is portrayed as a man who is taken to sports. Antony is a reveller, a lover of masques, a man leading a loose and dissasipated life. He is a lover of beauty and has a wide outlook.
Antony is also supremely self-confident; he is a fluent orator and a clever actor. When Brutus concludes that Antony is not dangerous and is only a lover of sports and pleasure, he has made a miscalculation. Antony is wise, tactful, clever and shrewd and Cassius who called him "shrewd contriver" had estimated him better.
Antony's poetic nature and his dramatic sense make him appreciate the spectacle of the slayers standing with bloody swords in their bloodstained hands. The sight moves him to the metaphor of the " royal hart slain by hunters". He is very wary and alert from anything to help his design and uses his own emotions so as to render the conspirators unsuspicious. However, he has not faltered in deceiving Brutus completely, although not directly or not by reason, but by emotion. .
At Caesar's funeral Brutus speaks in prose while Antony uses dramatic and imaginative verse. Brutus uses correct sentences, and fails in his appeal to reason because the citizens are not reasonable. A citizen immediately suggests that Brutus be made king - the very reason why Caesar had died. This shows that the citizens didn't understand that Brutus killed Caesar to make them happy. .
Antony showed better knowledge of human nature of mob psychology. While Brutus was to give sufficient proofs of Caesar's ambition, he didn't. Brutus could have reminded the people of the event that chanced on the Lupercal's day. Caesar put the crown that was offered to him by Antony back thrice, " every time gentler that the other". Brutus didn't say this and Antony cleverly picked on it saying that Caesar's refusal of the crown showed that he was not ambitious.
Although Antony had a lot of proofs to support his cause, he wisely appealed to emotions because he knew that the citizens were not reasonable.
