I, ii, 18) where the soothsayer tells Ceasar to watch out for the eyes of March. This is a clue to an upcoming event in the story.Caesar was warned many times during the play about the conspiracy. Ceasar was sent a letter warning him of the conspiracy. A portion of the letter as follows:To speak and strike? O Rome, I make theepromise, If the redress will follow, thou receivestThy full petition at the hand of Brutus!( II,i , 55-58)Here Cassius has said that there is a plan to strike? I make the promise, if this happens, that the entire conspiracy rest in the hand of Brutus. I think that Lucius says in not too many words, that the entire conspiracy rests on Brutus. A few passages after the soliloquy. Brutus and the conspirators are discussing how they should kill Caesar.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; ForAntony is but a limb of Caesar.Lets be sacrificers,but not butchers, Caius.( II, i, 162-166)In the passage the conspirators have decided that the best way to kill Caesar is by cutting off his head. They also say that they will be sacrificers not butchers. To me, when the conspirators say," lets be sacrificers , but not butchers".( II, i,166) , that's just a cop out to say that they are killing Caesar in the name of the Gods, instead of the truth. Which is, they are killing Ceasar because they are jealous of him.Recalling the first line of Brutus' soliloquy,"It must be by his death" .(II, i, 10) Virgil K. Whitaker says,"two assumptions are implicit in this remark. Caesar can be prevented from being king only by killing him, and killing a ruler is justified only if he is a tyrant".1Also in that same passage," I know no cause to spurn at him".(II, i , 11) Virgil K. Whitaker goes on to say:Shakespeare has done his best to make thefallacies in the reasoning obvious. Brutus saysexplicity that he has no evidence to support the co...
