Trusting your friends is a big part in friendship, but what if you don't trust them? Brutus didn't trust Caesar, or was he manipulated? The real question is would you kill your friend if you didn't trust them?
In Mark Antony's speech he addresses the audience as, "Friends, Romans, Countrymen"[3.2.72]. The reason Mark Antony does this is to express to the audience that addresses them as his friends."Lend me your ears"[3.2.72] Mark Antony asks them to lend him their ears implying that he wants them to listen to him, but he does not demand them to listen to his speech. In Brutus's speech he addresses the audience as, "Romans, countrymen, and lovers"[3.2.12-13]. Brutus addresses the audience as Romans because he wants them to listen to his speech as Romans. "Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear."[3.2.13-14] Brutus is more demanding when asking the audience to listen to him.…show more content… "Had you rather Caesar were living and all die as slaves"[3.2.18] Brutus tells the audience that Caesar would have made them all slaves if he had not slain him. In Antony's speech he replies to Brutus saying that Caesar was ambitious, "Hath told you Caesar was ambitious...it was a grievous fault"[3.2.77-78] Antony tells the audience that the reason Brutus said that Caesar was ambitious was because he is grieving and feels guilty about killing his friend. "When the poor had cried Caesar had wept"[3.2.90] Antony is telling the audience that Caesar thought of all his people as equals and this also proves that Caesar was not
