Read the passage. Then answer the question that
What are the
central ideas about the conspirators in
follows.
this speech by Brutus? Check all that apply.
BRUTUS. O Antony, beg
not your death of us!
Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,
O They are sad about their bloody deed
As by our hands and this our present act
O They are joyful about their bloody deed.
You see we
do, yet see you but our hands,
O They threaten to harm Antony.
And this the bleeding business they have done.
0 They had to kill Caesar to save Rome.
Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;
O Antony does not understand the reasons for
the
And pity to the general wrong of Rome-
assassination.
As fire drives out fire, so pity pity-
Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,
To you our swords have leaden points, Mark
Antony.
-The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,
William Shakespeare
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