Question

comment on Anthony's ironical praising of the conspirators why did Antony repeatedly call the conspirator horrible people in his speech

Answer 1

The funeral oration of Marc Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a stellar piece of rhetoric.  One rhetorical technique that Antony uses is repetition; however, his repeated phrase is contradictory to what Brutus in his previous address has claimed.  For, Brutus has sworn that he loved Caesar, and it was because he loved Rome more that he felt it necessary for Caesar to be removed from power.

Marc Antony takes this very thesis of Brutus's speech, the very reason that makes the Roman people accept Brutus's reasoning, and skewers it, creating doubt in the minds of the crowd as he repeats three times [always a significant number!] with verbal irony,