Brutus's soliloquy

Raul

Brutus’s soliloquy is when he makes the decision to assassinate Caesar before he gets the crown. This is an important passage because it shows Brutus’s thinking of the situation his in. He will the conspirators because he believes it’s the right thing for his country. He will join the conspirators and they will assassinate Caesar before Rome comes back to a monarchy government. Brutus says that Caesar’s nature might change when he becomes king, and he will not let that happen. Then he is certain that he is doing the right thing when he talks to himself. Brutus also thinks of other ways for him not o be king then he says it must be by Caesar’s death. This passage was important to the play because it showed Brutus’s point of view in Caesar’s death.

Act 2
Scene 1
Lines 10-34
BRUTUS It must be by his death: and for my part,
I know no personal cause to spurn at him,
But for the general. He would be crown'd:
How that might change his nature, there's the question.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,
And that craves wary walking. Crown him?-that?
And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,
That at his will he may do danger with.
The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins
Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,
I have not known when his affections sway'd
More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend. So Caesar may,
Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel
Will bear no colour for the thing he is,
Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented,
Would run to these and these extremities;
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg
Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,
And kill him in the shell.

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