Ethos, Logos and Pathos in Julius Caesar

Ethos, countersign and pathos are three impression tools employ by Shakespeare in Mark Antonys funeral oration over Caesars body. Ethos is appeal ground on the character of the speaker, Logos is appeal based on logical system or reason and Pathos is appeal based on emotion. Antony uses these elements to go the Roman crowd against the conspirators with a highly convincing dialect. These three persuasion tools and structure and diction are the primeval elements of the effectiveness of Mark Antonys famous speech.The most convincing use of ethos in Antonys speech is in the first line of the speech Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears This shows that Mark Antony is arduous to get in to the Roman crowds hearts with his condition as a trustworthy man. He uses rhetorical irony throughout the speech constantly questioning the ethos of Brutus. Brutus uses ethos heavily in his speech, he was considered very(prenominal) honourable a by the Romans, and basically anything tha t came out of his mouth had to be correct.Mark Antony targets the questionable character of Brutus several times saying And Brutus is an honourable man. Antony whence sums his speech up by using I speak non to disprove what Brutus spoke. This line once again outlines the irony used by Antony and this is where the trustworthy character of Mark Antony persuades the crowd to turn on the crowd, without Antony rattling saying that what the conspirators did was the wrong thing. Logos can be facts that are used to persuade someone.Mark Antony uses a lot of facts throughout the course of his speech. One of the key facts in his initial speech is When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. To use this is very logical by Mark Antony since most of the people that he is nerve-racking to persuade arent the richest bunch of folk in Rome. So when he uses poor as the type of people that Caesar cried for, the crowd thinks that it is wrong to savagely murder someone who cared so much for them that