The Funeral Speeches

Brutus or Antony? Convincing the mere plebeians to listen beyond their mere words.

Brutus speaks in the common people for he does not use iambic pentameter.  He emphasizes his honorable nature for he put Rome first and foremost.  Brutus explains his love for Caesar, but he recognized the ambitions of Caesar to be troublesome to Roman people. He attempts to use logic as his rhetorical device to say he is consistent in his everlasting love for Rome. Rather, Antony actually puts himself amongst the people by putting himself on the ground of the people.  He triumphs in his oratory skills of speaking by playing on the pathos of the crowd.   Antony still uses reason against Brutus's argument by providing the evidence of how Caesar three times denied the crown!  This is an instance of Antony using ethos to get the crowd to trust in what he is saying.

 Still I think an argument could be made that Antony successfully used all three devices as a plebeian responds with, "Methinks there is much reason in his saying".   Since Antony successfully gains the backing and trust of the crowd, he is able to reveal the true occurrences of Caesar's death by traitors.  Antony  incites the crowd in to a vicious, fiery rage to mutiny against the bad souls of Rome.  Brutus played upon reason verses Antony uses the raw emotion.

I still believe both of these characters are power hungry political figures vying for their chance to control the great Roma.