Zack Smith Essay I am writing my essay on Brutus’s speech from an excerpt in JuliusCaesarby William Shakespeare. In this persuasive piece of writing Brutus mostly uses LOGOS to convince the Romans that Caesars death was for the better of Rome. In terms of persuasiveness I’ll give Brutus his credit where credit is due. The way he talks to them to sway them toward that the assassination of Caesar is for the greater good of Rome.
Throughout his speech Brutus asks the Romans to “believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor”. He then tells them to awaken their senses and censure him in their wisdom. By doing these things Brutus has their undivided attention, so that they do not interrupt him while he speaks during this very poignant time.
In the beginning of the speech Brutus sets a strong and solemn mood. Making sure that everyone is paying attention so that they might be the better judge of what is soon to be said. The words slave, free, fortunate, rejoice, valiant, honor, ambitious, slew, joy, fortune, honor, valor, ambition, death. These are all words used to describe the way Brutus felt towards Caesar. The tone of the speech gets more serious in a way. As he progresses through his speech more people get involved and more emotional the situation gets.
Brutus convinces to the audience to not kill or shun him for what he has done, because he believes it was for Rome. Though he had much love for Caesar, his love for Rome was greater. He states this, a number of times to form repetition in his speech, to hook the audience and reel them in. Overall I think that this speech was actually very persuading to the Romans and that he used some basic logic against them to his own advantage. Like when he said “Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.” Obviously all the people there are Romans and it would only be logical for no one to respond, but they also might not respond out of fear. Who knows? A new perspective I got from reading this is that if you are a persuasive son of a gun and know how to move the people with your words, which you may get out of being killed, or to cause them to riot. "Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."- Edward Thorndike
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I am writing my essay on Brutus’s speech from an excerpt in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. In this persuasive piece of writing Brutus mostly uses LOGOS to convince the Romans that Caesars death was for the better of Rome. In terms of persuasiveness I’ll give Brutus his credit where credit is due. The way he talks to them to sway them toward that the assassination of Caesar is for the greater good of Rome.
Throughout his speech Brutus asks the Romans to “believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor”. He then tells them to awaken their senses and censure him in their wisdom. By doing these things Brutus has their undivided attention, so that they do not interrupt him while he speaks during this very poignant time.
In the beginning of the speech Brutus sets a strong and solemn mood. Making sure that everyone is paying attention so that they might be the better judge of what is soon to be said. The words slave, free, fortunate, rejoice, valiant, honor, ambitious, slew, joy, fortune, honor, valor, ambition, death. These are all words used to describe the way Brutus felt towards Caesar. The tone of the speech gets more serious in a way. As he progresses through his speech more people get involved and more emotional the situation gets.
Brutus convinces to the audience to not kill or shun him for what he has done, because he believes it was for Rome. Though he had much love for Caesar, his love for Rome was greater. He states this, a number of times to form repetition in his speech, to hook the audience and reel them in.
Overall I think that this speech was actually very persuading to the Romans and that he used some basic logic against them to his own advantage. Like when he said “Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.” Obviously all the people there are Romans and it would only be logical for no one to respond, but they also might not respond out of fear. Who knows? A new perspective I got from reading this is that if you are a persuasive son of a gun and know how to move the people with your words, which you may get out of being killed, or to cause them to riot. "Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."- Edward Thorndike