Explain brutus and mark antony's speech

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Brutus justifies the assas sination of Julius Caesar by accu sing him of being over ambitious. However, after this, he does a fo olish thing of giving Antony the privilege of speaking at Caesar's funeral. He feels that Antony's speech would boost his image. The tables turn when Antony's speech undermines the conspirators even while it appears deferential to them. He manages to turn the mob against the conspirators. Antony uses many rhetorical questions to persuade the people to go against the conspirators and support him and Caesar's goals. He damns the murderers although it appears that he was paying respect. He proved his skill as a rhetorician as well as a politician. He points out various facts which quite clearly portray the fact that Caesar was wrongly accu sed of being over-ambitious. Caesar brought many captives home, wept at the sorrow of the poor and thrice declined the crown to the kingdom offered by Antony. This entire speech won over the crowd and turned them against the conspirators. When Antony delivered this speech, his words melted with those of Caesar's to rouse the masses against the injustice of the assass ination.

Brutus ascends to the pulpit and the crowd falls silent. He delivers an earnest, honest, and simple speech. Brutus tellS the people tO hear him for his cause. First, he says that the people should trust his honor, which they know to be true. He asks if anyone can say they loved Caesar more than he did. No one can. Brutus says he rose against Caesar not because he didn't love him, but because he loved Rome more n because Ceasar was ambitious. If Caesar were still living they would all be slaves therefore he says that he had to die for his ambition. To have let him live would be to submit to slavery. Brutus asks whether anyone doesn't love Rome and freedom, and of course the answer is no. So obviously Caesar had to die. And then, Antony shows up with Caesar's body. Brutus introduces Antony to the crowd and closes his speech by restating that he slew his best friend for Rome's sake and that he will turn the same dagger on himself if his country ever needs his death. Everyone is so happy with Brutus that there are some calls to give him a statue among his ancestors ,to take him to his house with shouts and clamors and to make him the new Caesar but tells the crowd to listen to the speck of Mark Antony who is going to talk about Ceasars glories and achievements with his and other conspirators permission and then Brutus departs politely himself.

NOW,Antony takes over, with the famous speech beginning: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones; so let it be with Caesar."The crowd is happy with THe speech delivered by brutus..The crowd is as good as sold there, but Antony manages 2 stealthily bring it around to the opinion that Caesar has been killed wrongfully. He begins by insisting that Brutus and the other murderers are honorable, but then proceeds to slowly undermine the statement by pointing out how their chief gripe against Caesar, his ambition, could not be true. Antony gives examples of how Caesar loved his people, bringing in money to the country, weeping with the poor, and even refusing the crown three times. Clearly, he suggests, Caesar wasn't ambitious at all, but was devoted and loving to his citizens.Antony is very diplomatic n a tactful person.He is getting them to clamor to hear Caesar's will by insisting that they shouldn't hear it because if thet hear it they will not be able to stop demselves from crying. He descends to read them the private document but gets sidetracked by mourning over Caesar's body. Again Antony insists Brutus is honorable, but then points out the wounds Brutus made in his friend's bloody body. Antony repeats this pattern over n over, until all are became violent and were in agreement to burn and slay Brutus and the other conspirators.They all become violent n ready to go n kill brutus n the other conspirators that they forget about Caesar's will. Antony has to remind them that they wanted to hear it. After the mob gets 2 know the news that Caesar left them some nice gardens and 75 drachmas each, they decide to burn them all in the holy place and burn down the murderers houses with the same fire.As the mob sets off to carry out the mutiny Antony delights that his plan has worked.

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