Brutus Use Of Manipulation In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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Every day as time goes on we communicate with each other and influence their thoughts in general. There’s certain techniques in psychology such as manipulation that some people take advantage of. So… What is manipulation? Manipulation is using the art of using words to convince someone of doing something that you want. This technique was used a long time ago back in Caesar’s era. There're a lot of techniques in the art of languages such as ethos, pathos, and logos. In Caesar’s time, they took advantage of this type of persuasion and used it against the crowds. They use manipulation in several ways and this was an important lesson on how manipulation was used for awful intentions. Brutus was one of the wise men that learned how to efficiently use the art of manipulation. He appeals to the crowds in two techniques known as ethos and logos. He was basically trying to persuade using logical reasoning. “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” (Julius Caesar) He uses logos in this certain case to give logical reasoning of why he killed Caesar. Caesar was a great person, but Brutus loves Rome more than anything else. “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” (Julius Caesar) This was a rhetorical question which Brutus used to convince the crowd that his …show more content…
He appeals to the crowd using pathos. “And I must pause till it comes back to me.” (Julius Caesar) Antony used emotions to compose this impression of sympathy. He generates this atmosphere of sympathy when he uses his emotion. “Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it.” (Julius Caesar) In this case, he also used reverse psychology in order to get the audience's curiosity. The power of manipulation could be used incorrectly, which it was. No doubt the results were efficient, but this gives us a lesson of how incorrectly manipulation can be
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