mark antony

• “friends, Romans, countrymen”


  skilled orator - seditious rhetoric
• “your vile daggers hack’d one other in the sides of Caesar”


  metaphor - assassination has caused tragic downfall of not just Caesar, but Rome as well
• “pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers”


  loyalty to Caesar - addresses his dead body
• “but Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man” 


  iterative lexis - crowd doubt Brutus’ honour
• “I thrice presented a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse”


  refutes Caesar’s supposed ambition
• “when the poor hath cried, Caesar hath wept“


  elevates Caesar’s ethos, glorifies his legacy
• “my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar”


  evokes pathos - uses caesar’s body as a rhetorical prop for sedition