Examples Of Betrayal In Julius Caesar

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Betrayal can be viewed as different aspects in the book Julius Caesar. Being that Cassius and Brutus were once friends with Caesar makes the murdering and the whole outlook of the manipulative plan of Cassius' heart breaking to know how awful both Brutus and Cassius are. In the part of the book where it is put upon Antony and Brutus to get the citizens of Rome to believe one of them, it is clear that Antony gives a better speech with the use of ethos, logos, and pathos, and he puts his situation into their point of view so they could have empathy and also sympathy for him.
Brutus starts out his speech by saying, "Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe.” (III;iii:14-15) He wants to be able to have everyone's attention
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He wants everyone to remember that he is a honorable leader of Rome by saying, "not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." He wants to give off the idea that he is a very patriotic person and he loves his country so much, that he would betray his best friend just to make Rome happy. Antony goes on to say, "He was my friend, faithful and just to me. But Brutus say he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man." Antony never once disrespected Brutus, because he always told the crowd how much of an honorable man he was. "You all did love him once, not without cause. What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason. Bear with me, my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me." This is the most powerful part of Antony's speech that shows pathos, because of the use of words showing his emotional state, and it just all around makes the audience give him more sympathy and empathy than

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