Brutus Speech VS Antoney Speech

Two great men who carved their way into the history books, Marcus Brutus and Mark Antoney. These two men had love for Julius Caesar and for the country, Rome. Brutus had enormous love for the country, while Antoney had immense love for the mighty Julius Caesar. After Caesar’s death which was plotted by the conspirators, the final speech said by these two men had a great impact on how life would be viewed by Romans as well as the rest of the world.

Brutus’ speech was appealing because he had a direction in which he wanted to follow, and that direction was that of killing Julius Caesar for the battement of Rome. His utmost demise was that of speaking to the people using high language and that he left the crowd to reason for them selves. The commoners were not that much of intellectual people and this was to his disadvantage. His greatest blunder and greatest tactical slip-up was that he allowed Mark Antony to speak at Caesar’s ceremony. Mark Anthony was a wise man and used reasoning towards the people. Before opening his speech, he had drawn the people’s attention by caring out the corps of Caesar and placing it before the crowd. He started his speech as if he was addressing his peers e.g. “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” This to me is a tactical maneuver which brought people together as a united family.

Antony was a populist. He touched the hearts of the crowd. Antony stirred their emotions and quickened their hearts. He conveys Caesar's eulogy in poetic and heavily nuanced language.
Brutus, on the other hand, appeals to their intellects, to the cool and tempered view of the matter. He does not appeal to the popularity of the assassination, but to its justification. If killing Caesar was right, then it had to be done. Brutus was plain-spoken and prosaic. They are both well-respected men in their community, but they appeal to very different aspects of Roman culture.

With regards to the two speeches, I consider Brutus' speech weaker and Antony's stronger, because...
1)"Believe me for mine honor..."(3.2.16) He's basically saying, "You people should believe me for I am honorable." He is telling the people what they should do and that for me is a bad idea.
2) Brutus is politically naive, because he left before Antony spoke, and in the first place, Brutus should not have allowed Antoney to speak.
3) Antony uses logic and rhetoric to lead the crowd to the way he wants them to think. To those who haven't studied logic, it's basically premise + premise = conclusion. For example, (lines 88-90-paraphrased), If Caesar was ambitious, then he should be killed
(Premise 1)
(Line 99-use of rhetorical question-paraphrased), Caesar was not ambitious
(Premise 2)
Conclusion -> People put two and two together and if you add the two premises, you arrive at the conclusion of "He shouldn't have been killed."
4) Antony's used sarcasm: He calls Brutus and the conspirators honest, but observe the frequency and syntax.
-Line 86-"The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
-91- "(For Brutus is a honorable man, so they are all honorable men)"
-93- "And Brutus is an honorable man"
-103- "And Brutus is a honorable man"
-108- "And sure he is a honorable man"
-136- "Who (you all know) are honorable men"
-163- "I fear I wrong the honorable men."
5) He also works emotions by praising Caesar's image. In Act 1, Cassius calls Caesar, a man with a "colossus" reputation. By praising Caesar's "idol-status" image, he works up the crowd.
6) Finally he appeals to emotions of the crowd.