Analysis on Brutuss Speech (Brutuss Speech from the play Julius Ceaser) Brutuss speech has an extremely hard

objective to complete. All of his audience is against any solution or reasoning he offers from the very beginning of his speech. In other words, Brutus faces the challenge to face a biased audience that strongly disagrees with him at the very beginning of the speech. However, Brutus manages to overcome and persuade the audience in his position even turning them from merciless to merciful when it comes to the issue of his own life. In order to achieve such remarkable success, Brutus uses some tricks that make his speech sound and convincing. First, we have to take a look at Brutuss introduction. It is not an innovative one but rather a required introduction. Brutus begs for attention because parallel to his speech, he is trying to save his own life. He begs the crowd to listen to him in the name of the last thing that still might mean something to them. This thing is his honor. His major argument with which he attracts the mobs attention at the beginning of his speech is, Believe me for mine honor. Obviously Brutus knows that his honor is his only shield at that moment. Nevertheless, the crowd remains persistent in its anger. Brutuss speech at that moment starts to represent Monroes motivated sequence type of organization. He has caught the attention even before speaking to the audience because of the murder he had done. Therefore, what he strives for after the brief, at first sight unsuccessful introduction, he starts to justify his action. In other words, Brutus presents the need for the murder that he is a part of. In order to justify his actions, he presents to arguments. First, he if we consider Caesar for a great good for the Romans, he presents himself as the firmest defender and believer in this great good, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. Having proved that he is the greatest supporter of Caesar, Brutus turns the audiences attention to his second, major, argument. He points at the greater good, Rome, and states that in order to survive the greater good, the lesser good had to be eliminated, not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. This justifies his actions. In order to explain what he means, Brutus asks a rhetorical question which invokes an answer that is logical for the republic ideas of the Romans at that time. Through presenting the need of Caesars murder, Brutus also presents the satisfaction, which in this case is the murder. He presents the murder as the only solution for Caesars ambition. Brutus states that this ambition prevails over all other virtues that Caesar possessed and had to be eliminated. Having presented the problem, he justifies the solution once again in the climax of his speech. He asks a sequence of rhetorical questions each of which addresses the audience, stating that only a Roman who does no love his country would have left Caesar live to carry on his ambitious plans. Finally, Brutus makes a proposal. In order to even the loss he proposes his own death. By that time he relies on his statements that Caesars murder was rather a necessity and not and atrocity. His expectations seem correct because the crowd begs him to live on. The proposal to end his life to a certain extent enforces the plausibility of his arguments. It proves his love for Caesar. At that point the crowd becomes fully convinced in the necessity of Caesars murder. Through his speech Brutus manages to overcome a strongly negative feedback from his audience by presenting himself as one of them and as a defender as a defender rather than a

murderer. Through turning his position in this way he changes the audiences attitude from offensive to supportive. Thus he changes both the audiences disposition towards the occasion and the speaker, namely himself.