Question

Gag Shakespeare bubble question anyone wan to help?
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Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar and answer the question that follows.

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 crowned.
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.
Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
Remorse from power. And, to speak truth of Caesar

Answer 1

I have not known when his affections swayed
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 color 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, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous—
And kill him in the shell.

Which of these lines from the play indicates that Brutus fears power will change Caesar? (5 points)


"And, to speak truth of Caesar/I have not known when his affections swayed/More than his reason."
"But when he once attains the upmost round,/He then unto the ladder turns his back"
"It must be by his death, and for my part/I know no personal cause to spurn at him"
"But 'tis a common proof/That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,"

Answer 2

Maybe A?

Answer 3

you are correct again! i'm pretty sure the first one is A, since C just says that ambitious men use humility to advance themselves. A shows that he is dangerous if he is hatched (gets power).

Answer 4

haha thx i just hate how the wording is so complictaed in Shakespeare

Answer 5

no problem.