Speeches are known throughout time to have a great influence on humanity and its actions. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. was known for his great and famous speech bringing hope and a new beginning for people of different skin colors to live in harmony. Then there is the other side of the spectrum, where the world hears some of Adolf Hitler's speeches: speeches that caused the man to do unspeakable things to other members of humanity. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, two speeches are given by two very influential characters. The speeches of Brutus and Mark Antony resemble the examples given above. The two men and their speeches can be considered similar, but they are very different overall. The two men come from different backgrounds and both have different ambitions and motivations. Only two important things link them by the thread of similarity. One is Julius Caesar while the other is the people of Rome. The people admire and trust Brutus and Antony, as can be seen in two different quotes from Act III, scene two. “The noble Brutus has ascended: silence! (Act III, scene 2 - line 1544) » A third citizen shouts in the crowd, and in the same scene the same third citizen declares: "There is no nobler man in Rome than Antony. (Act III, scene 2 - line 1661). )” These quotes show that Brutus and Antony had the trust of the public, who they considered noble, and because of this, they both had two different speeches which led to two different speeches. Yet in Antony's speech he takes a different approach than Brutus. Pathos, otherwise known as emotional appeal, is something that Antony uses all the time in his speech, in which Brutus hardly used it at all. Antony opens his speech by addressing everyone as his friends, explaining how Caesar was an honorable man, an honest man, everything he had done was for the good of Rome. He said in his speech: “You all saw that on Lupercal I presented him three times with a royal crown, which he refused three times: was this an ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; and he is certainly an honorable man. (Act III, scene 2 - line 1639-1643) » Mark Antony shows people how great Caesar was and that he was not ambitious. He keeps repeating the words “Brutus is an honorable man,” almost as a mockery or challenge. He tries to make the people understand that Brutus is not honorable, that he killed their leader whom they loved, which is not an act that one would say of an honorable man. Mark Antony also continues to slowly convince the people that the conspirators were nothing more than murderers. Then he declares this: "good friends, sweet friends, allow me not to incite you to such a sudden flood of mutiny... (Act III, scene 2 - line 1754-1755) Now, Antoine put to them the idea of mutiny in the head, use the word "mutiny" in all the right places to get people to do just that: