Rhetorical Appeals By Savannah Newell, Sergio Caraveo, Kira Roth_1

Annotations:

• Kira Roth 

1. Logos
   1. "Men at some time are masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings" (I. ii.139-147).
      1. This is logos because Cassius uses logic to explain how fate has nothing to do with how their life happens; what happens in their life is what they make of it.
   2. "Those that with haste will make a mighty fire begin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome, what rubbish and what offal, when it serves for the base matter to illuminate so vile a thing as Caesar" (I. ii.107-111).
      1. Cassius is using his logic to get Casca on his side about Caesar. He says that Caesar is a kind of person to make a big problem out of something little.
   3. "for Romans now have thews and limbs like to their ancestors; but, woe the while! Our fathers' minds are dead, and we are governed with our mothers' spirits; our yoke and sufferance show us womanish" (I. ii. 80-84).
      1. This is logos because it is an example of an informed opinion. It is shared that the men are almost "womanish" because they are taking after their mothers.
2. Ethos
   1. "He had a fever when he was in Spain, and when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake; 'tis true, this god did shake. His coward lips did from their color fly, and that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his luster; I did hear him groan; aye, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans mark him and write his speeches in their books, alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,' as a sick girl. Ye gods! It doth amaze me, a man of such a feeble temper should so get the start of the majestic world, and bear the palm alone"(I.ii.119-131).
      1. Cassius uses credibility here - for he states that the might ruler Caesar threw a fit because of a fever, that Caesar is not so high and mighty as many people believe him to be.
   2. "But if you would consider the true cause why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts, why bird and beasts from quality and kind, why old men, fools, and children calculate, why all these things change from their ordinance [continued] their natures and preformed faculties, to monstrous quality, why, you shall find that heaven hath infused them with these spirits to make them instruments of fear and warning unto some monstrous state" (I.iii.62-71)
      1. Again, Cassius gives credibility to Caesar for all the strange happenings occurring within the city - for Caesar has supposedly angered the gods and sent all of this upon the nation.
   3. "But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did fromthe flames of Troy upon his shoulder the old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tibel did I the tired Caesar. And this man is now become a god, and Cassius is a wretched creature, and must bend his body" (I..II.110-117)
      1. This is an example of Ethos because Cassius uses a memory of his as an example to convince Brutus that Caesar is too feeble to be a good ruler.
3. Pathos
   1. "I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it: it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown..." (I. ii. 234-236).
      1. This is an example of pathos because it has an emotional tone and also Casca is trying to persuade Brutus against Caesar.
   2. "I was born free as Caesar; so were you: We both have fed as well, and we can both endure the winter's cold as well as he..." (I. ii. 97-99).
      1. This is an example of pathos because Cassius is using vivid descriptions with an emotional tone to persuade Brutus over to his side.
   3. "Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous" (I. ii.192-195).
      1. This is an example of Pathos because Caesar wants an emotional response from Antony. Also it uses figurative language