Using your annotations and rhetorical appeals charts, write a paragraph stating the true purpose of Shakespeare's funeral speeches. Defend your claim with evidence from both Brutus and Antony.

Question

Using your annotations and rhetorical appeals charts, write a paragraph stating the true purpose of Shakespeare's funeral speeches. Defend your claim with evidence from both Brutus and Antony.

Answer 1

To get you started on your essay notice that Brutus gave a purely logical argument saying I loved Caesar but still I loved more. Marc Antony uses more emotionaly charged language. He also questions Brutus's moral authority with his rhetorical questions to the audience. Caesar's so called "ambition" was to provide for Rome.