ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS IN BRUTUS’ SPEECH, Summaries of Educational Psychology

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PRE-WRITING WORKSHEET: ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS IN BRUTUS’ SPEECH

In each column write the lines of Brutus’ speech that show Ethos, Pathos or Logos. Since you will be using this for your paper, you will want to also note the line number. You might also want to include some notes as to why this is Logos, Pathos or Ethos.

BRUTUS’ SPEECH: Brutus persuades his audience (common people) that he had good and noble reasons to kill Caesar. His message is that he had to kill Caesar because Caesar was too ambitious and he would enslave the Romans if he lived.

Ethos (Credibility/Believability) Logos (Logic, Facts) Pathos (appeal to emotion)

1. Brutus spoke in prose not blank verse. This is the everyday language that the common people spoke in. By speaking this way Brutus is saying “Hey, I’m one of you”
2. “Believe me for mine honor”. By saying this, Brutus is saying that the people should listen to him and believe him because of his reputation as an honorable person

Brutus uses Ethos in his speech to say to his audience “Believe me…I’m a good guy, I’m one of you”

1. Would you rather that Caesar be alive and you be slaves? Brutus says this to give proof to the audience that he was right to kill Caesar. If Caesar had lived, he would have enslaved every Roman citizen by taking over power and becoming a dictator

Pathos is about how what the speaker says makes the audience feel.

1. I did love Caesar, but I loved Rome more. When Brutus says this, it makes the audience feel patriotism and that Brutus puts his loyalty for his country above his friendship.
2. Brutus said he was willng to kill himself for the sake of Rome, if that’s what the people want. When he says this, it makes the audience feel loved, grateful, that Brutus cares about them

ACT III: Brutus Speech (pg 126-128 in book)

Be patient till the last.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause,

and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine

honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you

may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake

your senses, that you may the better judge. If there

be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to

him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than

his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose

against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved

Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you

rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that

Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved

me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice

at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was

ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy

for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his

ambition. Who is here so base that would be a bond-

man? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who

is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any,

speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so vile

that will not love his country? If any, speak, for him

have I offended. I pause for a reply.

Then none have I offended. I have done no more to Caesar

Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of

his death is enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not

extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences

enforced, for which he suffered death.

Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony, who,

though he had no hand in his death, shall receive

the benefit of his dying, a place in the

commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this

I depart, that, as I slew my best lover for the

good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself,

when it shall please my country to need my death

PRE-WRITING WORKSHEET: ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS IN ANTONY’S SPEECH

In each column write the lines of Antony’s speech that show Ethos, Pathos or Logos. Since you will be using this for your paper, you will want to also note the line number. You might also want to include some notes as to why this is Logos, Pathos or Ethos.

ANTONY’S SPEECH: Antony persuades his audience (common people) that Caesar was not ambitious and therefore Brutus and the conspirators were not noble men. His purpose was to turn the common people against the conspirators and start a civil war.

Ethos (Credibility/Believability) Logos (Logic, Facts) Pathos (appeal to emotion)

1. Antony speaks in blank verse instead of prose (like Brutus). Blank verse was the way the nobility spoke. By speaking like nobility, Antony shows the audience that he has authority.
2. “Friends, Romans and countrymen…” By starting his speech this way, he shows that he is “one of them” (common person)

Brutus said Caesar was ambitious and that was why he had to die. In his speech Antony gives several logical arguments and proof that Caesar was not ambitious.

1. Caesar was a war hero who brought back captives for ransom that benefitted Rome
2. Caesar cried for the poor (also Pathos)
3. Caesar refused the crown 3 times
4. Caesar wrote a will that left money and land to the common people of Rome

These actions proved that Caesar was not ambitious and also that the conspirators were not noble in killing him.

1. Caesar was my friend, faithful and just to me. This makes the audience feel sympathy for Antony
2. By reading Caesar’s will to the people saying that Caesar has given money and land to every person, Antony makes the audience feel guilty
3. When Antony shows the people Caesar’s wounds (stab marks) and says “this wound was made by Casca, this one by Brutus, etc.) he makes the audience feel pity for Ceasar and anger towards the conspirators

ACT III: Antony Speech (pg 132-134, you can also look at other later parts of his speech)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest - For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men - Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.

(the rest of Antony’s speech continues and you can use any part of his speech for your paper/pre-writing)