Marc Antony successfully sets out to defend Caesar against the accusation of ambition and to turn the crowd against Brutus and the conspirators by a very skillfully constructed and manipulative speech.

Marc Antony immediately captures the hostile crowd's attention, using tone and visual effects. He walks in carrying Caesar's body, making a very dramatic entrance. Then he starts to speak, using words that can only be uttered in a soft tone:

and the result is that it is not he but the citizens who are telling each other to be quiet so they can hear what he has to say. He addresses them as friends (l. 65), careful not to antagonise them.

Throughout his speech Marc Antony uses irony to convey to the crowds the complete opposite to the ac

He asks the people if they consider this ambitious, obviously implying it was not, because Caesar's deeds were for the good of Rome, not for Caesar himself.

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me." (ll. 97-99)

"He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

when Marc Antony calls them back and reveals how generous Caesar has been to the public in his will.

"He hath brought many captives home to Rome,

And Brutus is an honourable man." (ll. 76-78)

Marc Antony tells the crowd, that if he and Brutus traded places, Brutus would speak so skillfully that it

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