Julius Caesar - Brutus

Julius Caesar - Brutus

1. Oration

   • Personal and Political
     • Anaphora: "As he was valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him."
     • Parallelism: "Honour for his valour; and death for his ambition."
   • Ethos
     • Explicitly: I love Caesar, I love Rome more...
     • Structured language from anaphora and parallelism reflects his character
   • Pathos
     • Implicates them through repeated questioning appealing to their sense of personal pride
   • Logos
     • Reason and argument with premises and conclusions

2. Dianoia

   • Aristotle
     • "Reasoning… is that with which people demonstrate that something is or is not, or make some universal statement."
   • Act 2 Scene 1
     • Conjunctive tense of verbs: what would happen if we were to make him king? - using possible negative outcome to justify action
       • Not about who Caesar is, but about what he would do = preventative measure
     • "Lowliness is young ambition's ladder... By which he did ascend."
       • Brutus does not hate Caesar, not envious, not calling him irrational - principal fear for the general issues facing Rome with one general of State