Brutus's purpose was to control the crowd as was Anthony's. Brutus began his speech with a hostile crowd against him as a murderer of the popular Julius Caesar.
During Caesar's funeral, Antony refers to Brutus as an honorable man. This is said sarcastically as Brutus was a traitor to Caesar.
Brutus and Antony.
Brutus fears antony
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The crowd did react to Brutus and Anthony funeral speeches because they had much intellectual appeal.
Brutus appeals to reason, Antony to emotion.
Brutus was not at the funeral (it would be kind of inappropriate for the killer to show-up). It was Mark Anthony who gave the funeral speech.
At the funeral. And he does deliver them at the funeral, but does not realize that the people are not in the mood for rationality at that point.
Antony, in his funeral oration for Caesar, repeated the phrase, "Brutus said he (meaning Caesar) was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man," in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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You can find the words of the famous speech given by Brutus at Caesar's funeral online at Word Info. You can also find the speech in the book Julius Caesar.