4/15/2023 0 Comments Nature knows no color lines![]() ![]() At this moment, Portia, his wife, enters, disturbed and concerned by her husband's strange behavior. ![]() When the conspirators have departed, Brutus notices that his servant, Lucius, has fallen asleep. Cassius then argues that Mark Antony should be killed along with Caesar Brutus opposes this too as being too bloody a course, and he urges that they be "sacrificers, but not butchers." It is the spirit of Caesar, he asserts, to which they stand opposed, and "in the spirit of men there is no blood." When Cassius raises the question of inviting Cicero into the conspiracy, Brutus persuades the conspirators to exclude Cicero from the conspiracy. Cassius proposes that they all seal their compact with an oath, but Brutus objects on the ground that honorable men acting in a just cause need no such bond. The various conspirators - Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus Cimber, and Trebonius - now arrive. Lucius re-enters and gives Brutus a letter that has been thrown into his window. He therefore decides to agree to Caesar's assassination: to "think him as a serpent's egg, / Which, hatched, would as his kind, grow mischievous, / And kill him in the shell." Thus far, Caesar has seemingly been as virtuous as any other man, but Brutus fears that after he is "augmented" (crowned), his character will change, for it is in the nature of things that power produces tyranny. He says that he has "no personal cause to spurn at" Caesar, except "for the general," meaning that there are general reasons for the public good. When Lucius has gone, Brutus speaks one of the most important and controversial soliloquies in the play. It is night and he calls impatiently for his servant, Lucius, and sends him to light a candle in his study. ![]()
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