Antonys speech
...bitious.... For Brutus is an honorable man"(III.ii.83). By saying this phrase, he is setting the crowd up for mutiny to Brutus cause he says it, each time, with growing sarcasm. He uses repetition for emphasis and ironic effect. He repeats, "The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious.... For Brutus is an honorable man”(III.ii.83) three more times becoming increasingly sarcastic, finally he says, "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and sure he was an honorable man"(III.ii.101). Repetition can also be found in lines 126-128 saying “I will not do them wrong… than I will wrong such honorable men”(III.ii.126-128) Since the people responded positively to Brutus' speech, Antony could not insult Brutus' honesty in a direct manner. Yet, Antony disproves Caesar's ambition with three examples. One is when he gave the ransom of captives to the public treasury and not his own, another when he cried with the poor people, and finally when he refused the kingship that Antony offered him three times. Anyone who was ambitious would never have done such things. Antony says, "I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke.”(III.ii.101), but that is exactly what he does. Antony unconsciously forgets what Casca said in act I scene 2 lines 38-41 by telling the Romans all the good things that Caesar did and leave out the bad things. By doing this he is using the persuasive technique omitting information and emphasizing on the good. Antony is using a dramatic effect on the people, by entering the stage with the body of Caesar. He goes to tell them who all stabbed him and he picks the biggest stab wound from his mantle and says that this stab wound was made by Brutus (III.ii.177). In conclusion, Antony gets the crowd to go after Brutus and the conspirators for what they did to Caesar. At the end of his speech he starts weeping (III.ii.102) to show his...