mark antonybrutus caesar’s

death: the funeral monologues

&

why should you care?

these two speeches

are really famous

for amazing rhetoric

rhetoric: rĕt'ər-ĭkn.

1.The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.

2.Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.

so they teach you rhetorical

skills

that’s right…skills

speech one

“for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that/you may believe:…” (III.ii).

logos

not that kind

Rhetorical question

“Have you rather Caesar were living and/ die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live

/all free men?” (III.ii). 

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved/Rome more.”

“If any, speak; for him have I offended./ Who is here so rude that would

not be a Roman?”

“I have the same dagger for myself,/when it shall please my country to need my death.”

utilitarianism

speech two

antony is grieving

but he has a job to do…

“Friends, Romans,

countrymen, lend me your ears;/I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”

concessio

"My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar" "Oh judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts"

a)pathosb)logosc)ethos

For Brutus is an honourable man;So are they all, all honourable men--

How many times? “honorable”

parallelism

“thrice refused…”

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

It will inflame you, it will make you

mad:

‘Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;For, if you should, O, what would come of it!

For, if you should, O, what would come

of it!

did it work?

“All Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire…We’ll burn the house of Brutus!”