Brutus must read it first.
In Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," Mark Antony repeatedly refers to Brutus as an "honorable man" during his famous speech, but his tone is increasingly sarcastic. While he acknowledges Brutus's reputation, Antony uses the phrase to undermine Brutus's actions in assassinating Caesar and to sway public opinion against him. Ultimately, Antony's rhetoric suggests that he does not genuinely believe Brutus is honorable, but rather seeks to highlight the contradictions in Brutus's motives.
Before Brutus agrees to Antony's request to speak at Caesar's funeral, he places the condition that Antony must not blame the conspirators for Caesar's assassination. Brutus wants to ensure that the speech does not incite the crowd against them. Additionally, he insists that Antony must speak after him, allowing Brutus to present the conspirators' rationale first.
In his speech against Brutus, Antony highlights the contradiction in Brutus's claim that he killed Caesar for the good of Rome, arguing instead that Brutus's actions stemmed from envy and ambition. He repeatedly refers to Brutus as an "honorable man," using irony to undermine Brutus's character and intentions. Through his emotional appeals and the presentation of Caesar's will, Antony seeks to sway public opinion against the conspirators, ultimately igniting the crowd's anger and turning them against Brutus and the other assassins.
1. Antony will speak only after the speech of Brutus completes. 2. He will speak from the same pulpit from where Brutus speaks. 3. He will speak good and praise Caesar but he will not blame the conspirators for the death of Caesar. and Antony agrees these conditions imposed on him.
Although both Brutus and Antony offered eulogies, Antony offered one tempered with sarcasm and disrepute, while Brutus's was sincere with praise and good will.
Brutus is the one that is more democratic. After Caesar gets killed, when Brutus and Antony give the speech to the plebians or villagers, Antony want to make sure Brutus and Cassius get what they deserved for what they did. For Brutus, he wants the govt. to change, and to change Rome into a republic.
Brutus must read it first.
Mark Antony uses a subtle and eloquent tone in his speech. This is in contrast to the rational tone of Brutus's speech.
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.
It turned the mob against Brutus, which was his objective.
After Julius Caesar was assassinated, Antony gave a eulogy purporting to praise Brutus. He kept repeating that Brutus was an honorable man while making it obvious that the opposite was true. The crowd turned against Brutus.
Brutus spares Antony because he doesn't want to further inflame the populace, and thinks that Antony, as Caesar's friend, can make the citizens understand why Caesar was killed. However, he has underestimated Antony, who turns his speech from one of support for the assassins to one that sets Rome against them. Antony reinforces his position of power in Rome and Brutus must flee.
He says, yet they're "Noble Men" like in a sarcastically voice.
Anthony tricks Brutus into letting him give a soliloquy at Caesar's funeral. He uses the opportunity to sarcastically implicate Brutus and Cassius in Caesar's murder. He says that Brutus considered Caesar "ambitious" using his speech to use Brutus' own words against him.
Antony handled his emotions better than Brutus. Antony was able to channel his grief and anger into a powerful and strategic speech at Caesar's funeral, rallying the Roman citizens against the conspirators. In contrast, Brutus struggled to manage his emotions and made decisions based on honor and duty rather than practicality, which ultimately led to his downfall.
He keeps on saying that Brutus is an honourable man when the message he is trying to convey is that Brutus is not an honourable man at all.