Julius Caesar Speech

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kind light. He asks how is ambition filling Rome’s coffers and bringing wealth to its people, how he sympathized with the poor and wept with them, and how he refused to crown thrice. Antony also used the word “honorable”, a word we associate with respect, dignity, integrity- to describe Brutus and Cassius. Several times does Antony describe Brutus as “honorable” and that he will not speak badly against Brutus though each time he speaks of Brutus he becomes more of an insult than a compliment. That this honorable man stabbed Julius Caesar his friend, and Antony shows the corpse of Caesar- show the dead body and the many stab wounds that the Senators inflicted and how “honorable” Brutus was doing this deed. How honorable Brutus was by literally and figuratively stabbing Julius in the back and letting his blood run down the steps of the Senate. He poses this question if Brutus is really “honorable” and was Julius Caesar really “ambitious”.
Antony also manages to use tone or more ...

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