Julius Caesar - Act III - Rhetoric

Question 1

main concept

Answer 1

• the speeches of Brutus and Antony are good examples of rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Question 2

rhetoric

Answer 2

• appeal to emotion, logic, patriotism, ethics
• repetition: words, phrases, form
• parallelism: similar structure
• analogy: comparison of similarities between two dissimilar things
• juxtaposition: placing of dissimilar things in close proximity for comparison

Question 3

note

Answer 3

• Antony bends the crowd to his aims with an emotional appeal, telling them they will be “inflamed”
• Antony baits the crowd (emotional appeal), suggesting they shouldn’t hear what he wants to tell them
• Brutus uses parallel structure and juxtaposition – “Not that I loved” and “but that I loved”
• Brutus makes an emotional, patriotic appeal that Caesar’s death is good for the Roman Commonwealth
• Brutus uses parallel structure with opposites – glory not diminished; offenses not exaggerated
• Antony twists words to make it as if Brutus were enciting the people to avenge Caesar, to mutiny
• Antony uses repetition of “fell/fall” – “Caesar fell,” “what a fall was there,” “all of us fell”
• Antony makes an emotional appeal - if people heard his will, the would “kiss dead Caesar’s wounds”
• Brutus makes a logical appeal – If I behave as Caesar did, you do to me as I did to him
• Brutus uses repetition - “Do grace