...night : — " It must be by his death." He disavows, however, any personal hatred to Caesar : — " And for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him." He then adds, — " But for the general — he would be crowned : How that might change his nature,...

...the night: — " It must be by his death." He disavows, however, any personal hatred to Caesar: — " And for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him." He then adds, — "But for the general — ho would be crowned : How that might change his nature,...

...thoughts in the space of one beat, introducing it with the question that most disturbs Brutus - "[Caesar] would be crown'd: / How that might change his nature, there's the question" - and concluding it with the resolution Brutus arrives at, that Caesar is best viewed as a serpent's...

...can assent to killing Caesar, as opposed to the individual self whom Caesar has loved and favored: "I know no personal cause to spurn at him, / But for the general" (2.1.11-12) — that is, the public good. Antony harps on this violation of the personal tie in his...

...concentrating on a selection of the facts in the interest of an abstract view of "the general good": It must be by his death; and for my part, I know no...personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. (II.i.10-12) In this way Brutus gets caught up in a web of specious argument, and he constructs his...

...world, "This was a man!" (5.5.68-75) The speech echoes Brutus's own admission, "And for my part, / 1 know no personal cause to spurn at him, / But for the general" (2.1.10-12). By contrast, the announcement of Antony's approach in the preceding scene, "Here comes...

...arguing himself into a frame of mind in which he decides to do something that he knows to be wrong: It must be by his death. And for my part I know no...to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crowned. How that might change his nature, there's the question. (2.1.10-13) Caesar is to be executed...

...sc. iI, when he reflects on Caesar's ambition and its consequences: I know no personal cause to sporn at him. But for the general. He would be crown'd:...It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, . . . But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back. Looks in the...

...fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (COOKIE exits to steal the formula.) It must be by his death, and for my part I know no personal cause to spurn him But for the general. He has the drug: How that might change his nature, There's the question. It...

...the sense of hesitancy, of erratic thought. However, much of this punctuation is normally omitted: It must be by his death : and for my part, I know no personal! cause, to spurne at him, But for the generull. (JC ll. fi2fi-28, Hinman p. 722I All editions omit the comma after...