Brutus Rhetorical Strategy of Appealing Essay I want you to focus on Brutus’ rhetorical strategy of Appealing to Style. Begin with an Intro-Paragraph that

Brutus Rhetorical Strategy of Appealing Essay I want you to focus on Brutus’ rhetorical strategy of Appealing to Style. Begin with an Intro-Paragraph that fully establishes the rhetorical situation Brutus is confronting. In other words, tell me WHAT he’s trying to get his audience to believe and WHY he needs this audience to believe it. Focus on introducing the audience to WHOM Brutus is speaking on this occasion, and explain why they might be reluctant to accept Brutus’ position on the matter of Caesar’s death. And THEN suggest that Brutus’ rhetorical strategy for convincing the people of Rome to accept his position is to make a strong appeal to style. That, basically, is the broad statement of your thesis. After that, you’ll want to wrap up your Intro-Paragraph with a thesis statement that focuses specifically on Brutus’ appeals to figures of speech (or “tropes,” as the Greeks called them). The style that Brutus will appeal to in his rhetorical project is a style that is heavily based on the persuasive power of tropes. And Brutus will appeal to 4 or 5 of them in this speech. That, is your more focused and narrowed-down thesis: Brutus appeals to the persuasive force of a few tropes in order to win his audience over.PDF attached below has conversation with brutus and caesar.300 words Essay 1: The Assassin’s Style
Contextual Note: Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar takes place just after Brutus
and his fellow conspirators have murdered Caesar on the steps of the Roman Forum. Brutus truly
believes that he was doing Rome a favor by killing Caesar. He feels that because of Caesar’s
current popularity – garnered from a long series of military triumphs – he would have been
offered the crown of an Emperor. And given Caesar’s notoriously huge ego, Brutus is pretty sure
that Caesar would have accepted that crown. If Rome does indeed crown an Emperor, that will
spell the end of the somewhat democratic form of government that Rome has long enjoyed.
Brutus, in murdering Caesar, believes he has acted in advance to defend the principles of
democracy, even before they were directly threatened. (Sort of reminds me of that Tom Cruise
movie, Minority Report.)
Most readers of this play tend to focus on Antony’s funeral oration that follows Brutus’s speech
on the necessity for Caesar’s assassination. But in focusing on Antony, readers often neglect the
virtuoso performance that Brutus delivers here. What makes Brutus’s speech so amazing is the
way he uses so many brilliant figures of speech to make his case. Antony will later uncover
many of the logical fallacies that Brutus commits in demonstrating the justification for Caesar’s
murder, but what’s interesting is how boldly Brutus uses his figures to hide those fallacies in the
first place. Brutus truly shows himself to be heir to the rhetorical tradition of Gorgias, the first
great champion of the art of rhetoric. Print out and keep our Glossary of Figures of Speech (see
Unit 1) handy as you read through Brutus’s speech.
For this essay, I want you to focus on Brutus’ rhetorical strategy of Appealing to Style. Begin
with an Intro-Paragraph that fully establishes the rhetorical situation Brutus is confronting. In
other words, tell me WHAT he’s trying to get his audience to believe and WHY he needs this
audience to believe it. Focus on introducing the audience to WHOM Brutus is speaking on this
occasion, and explain why they might be reluctant to accept Brutus’ position on the matter of
Caesar’s death. And THEN suggest that Brutus’ rhetorical strategy for convincing the people of
Rome to accept his position is to make a strong appeal to style. That, basically, is the broad
statement of your thesis. After that, you’ll want to wrap up your Intro-Paragraph with a thesis
statement that focuses specifically on Brutus’ appeals to figures of speech (or “tropes,” as the
Greeks called them). The style that Brutus will appeal to in his rhetorical project is a style that is
heavily based on the persuasive power of tropes. And Brutus will appeal to 4 or 5 of them in
this speech. That, is your more focused and narrowed-down thesis: Brutus appeals to the
persuasive force of a few tropes in order to win his audience over.
How you organize the rest of your essay is up to you. You can, if you like, break down Brutus’
speech into sections, and analyze it section by section, dedicating a body-paragraph to the
persuasive use of the figures in each section. OR you can dedicate each body-paragraph to a
specific trope within Brutus’ rhetorical arsenal. Within each paragraph, you’d jump around in
Brutus’s speech, discussing all the times Brutus uses “antithesis” (for example) in his speech.
That discussion would fill out your body-paragraph dedicated to the trope of antithesis.
However you choose to organize the body of your essay, you need to keep in mind that I’m most
interested in reading your take on how each instance of each figure is working to convince
Brutus’ audience to adopt his point of view. What we’re analyzing here is the way in which
tropes (ie, figures of speech) are being used to persuade an audience. It’s not enough to point out
a metaphor here, a chiasmus there. You need to explain how these particular metaphors and
chiasma are working to persuade Brutus’s audience crowd on this occasion.
You’ll need to quote several phrases, label the tropes contained in each phrase that you
quote, and explain how each phrase relies on a specific trope in order to be more
persuasive.
(Assignment Length: approximately 1,000 words)
Note: For this essay, I am not requiring you to document your quotations of Shakespeare’s play
or any references you make to the Lecture Notes which I’ve published on our course Canvas site.
If I were to require MLA citations, you’d need to include parenthetical in-text citations AND a
Works Cited page at the end of your essay. What would the full citations on your Works Cited
page look like (I hear someone asking)? Like this:
Works Cited
Aristolte. Rhetoric. Translated by W. Rhys Roberts. The Internet Classics Archive. MIT. 1994 –
2009. Accessed 15 Sept. 2019.
Netto, Jeffrey. “Unit One Lecture Note: The Rhetorical Appeal to Style.” English 103 Online,
Modesto Jr. College, Fall 2019.
Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar 3.2. English 103 Online, Modesto Jr. College, Fall 2019.
You WILL need to document your sources in Essays 2 – 4 in this course.
From Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2
BRUTUS
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 bondman? 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.
ALL
None, Brutus, none.
BRUTUS
Then none have I offended. I have done no more to 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.
[Enter ANTONY and others, with CAESAR’s body]
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.
ALL
Live, Brutus! live, live!
First Citizen
Bring him with triumph home unto his house.
Second Citizen
Give him a statue with his ancestors.
Third Citizen
Let him be Caesar.
Fourth Citizen
Caesar’s better parts Shall be crown’d in Brutus.
Essay 1: The Assassin’s Style
Contextual Note: Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar takes place just after Brutus
and his fellow conspirators have murdered Caesar on the steps of the Roman Forum. Brutus truly
believes that he was doing Rome a favor by killing Caesar. He feels that because of Caesar’s
current popularity – garnered from a long series of military triumphs – he would have been
offered the crown of an Emperor. And given Caesar’s notoriously huge ego, Brutus is pretty sure
that Caesar would have accepted that crown. If Rome does indeed crown an Emperor, that will
spell the end of the somewhat democratic form of government that Rome has long enjoyed.
Brutus, in murdering Caesar, believes he has acted in advance to defend the principles of
democracy, even before they were directly threatened. (Sort of reminds me of that Tom Cruise
movie, Minority Report.)
Most readers of this play tend to focus on Antony’s funeral oration that follows Brutus’s speech
on the necessity for Caesar’s assassination. But in focusing on Antony, readers often neglect the
virtuoso performance that Brutus delivers here. What makes Brutus’s speech so amazing is the
way he uses so many brilliant figures of speech to make his case. Antony will later uncover
many of the logical fallacies that Brutus commits in demonstrating the justification for Caesar’s
murder, but what’s interesting is how boldly Brutus uses his figures to hide those fallacies in the
first place. Brutus truly shows himself to be heir to the rhetorical tradition of Gorgias, the first
great champion of the art of rhetoric. Print out and keep our Glossary of Figures of Speech (see
Unit 1) handy as you read through Brutus’s speech.
For this essay, I want you to focus on Brutus’ rhetorical strategy of Appealing to Style. Begin
with an Intro-Paragraph that fully establishes the rhetorical situation Brutus is confronting. In
other words, tell me WHAT he’s trying to get his audience to believe and WHY he needs this
audience to believe it. Focus on introducing the audience to WHOM Brutus is speaking on this
occasion, and explain why they might be reluctant to accept Brutus’ position on the matter of
Caesar’s death. And THEN suggest that Brutus’ rhetorical strategy for convincing the people of
Rome to accept his position is to make a strong appeal to style. That, basically, is the broad
statement of your thesis. After that, you’ll want to wrap up your Intro-Paragraph with a thesis
statement that focuses specifically on Brutus’ appeals to figures of speech (or “tropes,” as the
Greeks called them). The style that Brutus will appeal to in his rhetorical project is a style that is
heavily based on the persuasive power of tropes. And Brutus will appeal to 4 or 5 of them in
this speech. That, is your more focused and narrowed-down thesis: Brutus appeals to the
persuasive force of a few tropes in order to win his audience over.
How you organize the rest of your essay is up to you. You can, if you like, break down Brutus’
speech into sections, and analyze it section by section, dedicating a body-paragraph to the
persuasive use of the figures in each section. OR you can dedicate each body-paragraph to a
specific trope within Brutus’ rhetorical arsenal. Within each paragraph, you’d jump around in
Brutus’s speech, discussing all the times Brutus uses “antithesis” (for example) in his speech.
That discussion would fill out your body-paragraph dedicated to the trope of antithesis.
However you choose to organize the body of your essay, you need to keep in mind that I’m most
interested in reading your take on how each instance of each figure is working to convince
Brutus’ audience to adopt his point of view. What we’re analyzing here is the way in which
tropes (ie, figures of speech) are being used to persuade an audience. It’s not enough to point out
a metaphor here, a chiasmus there. You need to explain how these particular metaphors and
chiasma are working to persuade Brutus’s audience crowd on this occasion.
You’ll need to quote several phrases, label the tropes contained in each phrase that you
quote, and explain how each phrase relies on a specific trope in order to be more
persuasive.
(Assignment Length: approximately 1,000 words)
Note: For this essay, I am not requiring you to document your quotations of Shakespeare’s play
or any references you make to the Lecture Notes which I’ve published on our course Canvas site.
If I were to require MLA citations, you’d need to include parenthetical in-text citations AND a
Works Cited page at the end of your essay. What would the full citations on your Works Cited
page look like (I hear someone asking)? Like this:
Works Cited
Aristolte. Rhetoric. Translated by W. Rhys Roberts. The Internet Classics Archive. MIT. 1994 –
2009. Accessed 15 Sept. 2019.
Netto, Jeffrey. “Unit One Lecture Note: The Rhetorical Appeal to Style.” English 103 Online,
Modesto Jr. College, Fall 2019.
Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar 3.2. English 103 Online, Modesto Jr. College, Fall 2019.
You WILL need to document your sources in Essays 2 – 4 in this course.
From Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2
BRUTUS
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 bondman? 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.
ALL
None, Brutus, none.
BRUTUS
Then none have I offended. I have done no more to 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.
[Enter ANTONY and others, with CAESAR’s body]
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.
ALL
Live, Brutus! live, live!
First Citizen
Bring him with triumph home unto his house.
Second Citizen
Give him a statue with his ancestors.
Third Citizen
Let him be Caesar.
Fourth Citizen
Caesar’s better parts Shall be crown’d in Brutus.

Purchase answer to see full
attachment