3.2 Speech Soose
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- Brutus' Speech - Ethos
- "Judge me with appropriate wisdom, and awake your senses so that you can judge me more accurately."
- Brutus' Speech - Pathos
- "Who here is so lowly that he would willingly be a slave? Who here is so barbaric he doesn't want to be a Roman?"
- Brutus' Speech - Logos
- "I say to him that my love for Caesar is not less than his own. It is not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
- In lines 13 to 17, Brutus applies ethos to his speech to present himself as a credible speaker. He tells the citizens of Rome that they should judge him more accurately, not just as a bloody-handed murderer. He asks them to do that so that they will not judge him before he even speaks, but rather to wait and judge him by the words he puts together. This allows Brutus to establish himself as a credible and knowledgeable speaker to his audience so he can continue and explain his reasons for killing Caesar and grasp a hold of the crowd's opinions to change them in his favor. 
- Antony's Speech - Ethos
- "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man." 
- Brutus uses pathos in the form of rhetorical questions in his speech to the distressed mob in order to become in touch with their emotions. Brutus says that under Caesar, the people would be slaves, and to follow Caesar, the people would be barbaric and not Roman. He says these things because they would tap into their emotions and anger the citizens, resulting in them shifting their viewpoints on Caesar and his death. This powerful use of pathos allowed Brutus to have the people not thinking with logic, but rather their emotions.
- Antony's Speech - Pathos
- "When the poor would cry, Caesar would weep - ambition should be made of sterner stuff than that."
- Brutus enhances his speech by using logos in lines 18 to 20. He states a fact that he loved Caesar very much and he was a dear friend, but he was thinking of the greater good of the citizens and Rome itself to show that he is indeed speaking factually. Brutus uses it show the crowd that he is factual and that he just killed one of his good friends, but that it was all for the better of Rome. This assures the people that Caesar was an ambitious ruler and they should be thanking and bowing to Brutus and his other conspirators for ending his ambitions early.
- Antony's Speech - Logos
- "You all saw that during the feast of Lupercal I presented him with a kingly crown three times, which he refused three times."
- Mark Antony uses ethos by the repetition of a phrase during his speech to establish trust among him and the conspirators and him and the crowd and to prove that he is a credible person speaking. He repeats something around the phrase, "Brutus is an honorable man", many times throughout his speech. Antony needed to utilize this phrase many times because when he first started, the crowd was swayed to believe and follow the conspirators and to not believe Antony and forget about Caesar. By crediting Brutus and Cassius as being honorable men, he is able to credit Caesar for once being the perfect ruler because he established trust.
- By speaking about the many things Caesar did for the people and how he put the people's interests before his own, Antony is able to connect with the feelings and emotions of the crowd using pathos. For example, Antony remarks that he would weep with the poor even when he was not the one struggling. He makes the decision to utilize this piece of pathos to show that he was not ambitious, but rather emotional. Caesar ruled for the benefit of Rome and Antony wants the people to know that Caesar loved every single person. This then captures the idea of pathos in his speech because he taps into the emotions of the people and makes them think with their emotions. 
- Antony incorporates logos into his speech in lines 93 to 95. In these lines, he recalls the feast of Lupercal when Caesar refused the crown he was presented with all three times. He does this in order to gain the trust of the people and to help them obtain an understanding of what Antony is arguing. This fact, in which all of them can remember, assists the switch of their mindset and allows the people to see that Antony was being honest, truthful, and factual with his statements about Caesar because of this effectively used event.
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