nclusion that Caesar will become immoral and that he must kill on an assumption without basis.His error in assuming that he is acting for the Roman people is proved by later events.2Whitaker is right, Brutus makes a bad judgment based on a very outrageous assumption. Adrien Bonjur idea of the first passage is very different from Virgil Whitaker's. He goes on to say.This opening is at the same time a conclusion and thusdelicately suggests the longer inner conflict which has beensurging in Brutus's soul: it lends the whole monologue itsreal perspective and depth.3Here Adrien Bonjur says that the opening suggests a longer inner conflict that has been building up inside and waiting to come out. Robert Ornstein writes about the same passage,It may be a common proof that power corrupts, but there is no evidence , by Brutus' own candid admission, that Ceasar, who has already risen to the heights of power-who dominates Rome-has been corrupted. Thus despite thegeneral truth of Brutus' observations, his actual decision to kill Caesar is based upon an almost incredible assumption: that the act of coronation will change the nature of a man long accustomed to great power, whose past( in Brutus' eyes) has been blameless and whosetemper is rational.4A brief summary of the passage is Brutus is not jealous of Ceasar, but Cassius convinces Brutus that once Caesar is in power, he will become a tyrant and enslave the people of Rome. Figurative language as related to the thesis is foreshadowing, and a soliloquy occurs in (II, i , 10-34). Foreshadowing is used when Brutus said "he would rather be a village than to repute himself a son of Rome". This is an example of foreshadowing because Brutus says he would do anything to not be Caesar's slave even kill him. This is implying that he would probably be apart of the assassination attempt on Ceasar. Shakespeare's choice of words in the passage are nothing jealous, not at all d...
