Syllogistic Reasoning in Critical Literacy

Based on the Critical Literacy's, Syllogism means a logical appeal or a logical argument which is the conclusion is concluded from two premises.

As we can see, the language that being use will be twist until the real meanings shown. This is indirect way to expressing feeling especially towards the person or things that might cause dangerous to someone life.

If you still remember, the last word that came out from Julius Caesar mouth are; "Et tu Brute?"
That means "You too my son?"

Now, let me show you the syllogistic language in the real speech by Mark Antony.

Mark Antony:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar ... The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was grievous fault,
And grievously halt Caesar answered it ...
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
(For Brutus is an honorable man,
So are they all; all honorable men)
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral ...
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man ...
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambitious?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove that Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beast,
And men have lost their reason ... Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

Here some sample of syllogistic sentences that have been made by me based on the Mark Antony's Speech.

According to Brutus is an honorable man;
Caesar was an ambitious,
No ambitious man shares their wealth with others.
Caesar share his spoil of wars with the Roman citizen;
Therefore, Caesar is not an ambitious,
Thus, Brutus is not an honorable man.

In my personal opinion, Syllogistic reasoning is good to be use as they can cover up what is actually what we are trying to say. This may help to safe one life from being discriminate or live in a dangerous situation.

URL for more interesting way on understanding this speech by Mark Antony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUMvBL3gnY&feature=player_embedded