Julius Caesar:What is now amiss ... Scene 2 - Rhetoric and politics (workshop) The two funeral speeches are compared, each set against the structures of rhetoric. Act 3, Scene 2 - Brutus reasons ...

In his 1599 play Julius Caesar, a host of Roman senators conspired ... but repeats in his famous funeral speech that "Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man." ...

He reminds the crowd of all the good Caesar has done and encourages them to mourn for him. Julius Caesar's popularity soars when he returns to Rome victorious after defeating the sons of Pompey.