Antony began his speech by explaining his purpose for speaking at Caesar's funeral. Antony tells the crowd, "I come to bury Caesar not to praise him" (3.2.83). Antony says this meaning another because he knows that the Roman people at the moment think of Caesar as a bad man who deserved his misfortune of being murdered by the conspirators. In that case, Antony has to make himself look as if he is on the conspirator’s side otherwise the crowd would refuse to listen to him any further and most likely would of killing him.
In addition, Antony uses repetition to emphasize the words ambitious and honorable make their meaning more sarcastic the more they are being said. Antony told the crowd, "For Brutus is an honorable man; so are they all, all honorable men" (3.2.91). Antony said this to catch the crowds attention toward him. He knows that at the moment that the Roman people are on the conspirators side; therefore, he has to be careful in what he says and tells the people what they want to hear such as, the conspirators being honorable men and Caesar being ambitious. When Antony had the people listening to him he starts to bring up good deeds about Caesar which, makes causes doubt to rise about the conspirator’s action of murdering Caesar being the right thing. While Antony is doing this he repeats the words ambitious and honorable men in his speech making it sound sarcastic the more time it is said. This causes the crowd to become angry and at the conspirators and their action.
Besides using repletion in his speech, Antony uses Caesar’s will as way to show the people that Caesar was a good man and lead their full attention towards him. Antony says to the crowd, "I must not read it. It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you” (3.2.153). He tells this to the crowd so that they give him their full attention. Also he tells them this to lead them into thinking that the conspirators were wrong of thinking of Caesar as ambitious and show the people that the conspirators were nut as honorable men as they had presented themselves to be. This helps Antony gain the Roman people's support.
By the time Anthony finishes his speech, the Roman people are moved and are on Antony’s side. The crowd leaves Anthony in search for the conspirators, but they had already left. Anthony achieves his goal of having the people go against the conspirators and gains their trust and support. In this speech, Anthony used many forms of irony like saying things he doesn’t really mean, repeating words to prove a certain point, and uses Caesar’s will as a tool to buy the people’s attention. Because of the use of these irony technique, Brutus ruined the conspirators plan and regained the people’s support for Caesar.
