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Tragedy and Comedy
Julius Caesar ACT II
Answer in complete sentences providing evidence from text.
1. Why is Brutus speech at the beginning of Act II considered sincere?
Brutus speech is a soliloquy where he reveals his inner thought. Brutus makes a choice and
does what he feels is best for Rome.
I have not known when his affections swayed
More than his reason. But tis a common proof
That lowliness is young ambitions 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
Brutus is thinking to himself and is being sincere because he has no personal problems with
Caesar and wants to do things openly and honestly
2. What is Brutus attitude toward the conspirators?
Brutus thinks that what they are doing to Caesar is fine but doesnt agree with their morals.
They are the faction. O conspiracy,
Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night
When evils are most free? O, then by day
Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy.
Hide it in smiles and affability.
Brutus says that Antony seems harmless, however Caesar also seemed harmless to Brutus.
Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards,
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.
Let us be sacrificers but not butchers, Caius.
We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar,
And in the spirit of men there is no blood.
Oh, that we then could come by Caesars spirit
Welcome, Publius.
What, Brutus, are you stirred so early too?
Good morrow, Casca.Caius Ligarius,
Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy
As that same ague which hath made you lean.
What is t o'clock?
The conspirators have come to get rid of Caesar