Betrayer or Patriot chart

Evidence

Betrayer or Patriot

Act and scene
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Explanation

Our course will seem Patriot too bloody, Caius
Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers,
Caius

Act 2, Scene 1, Page Here Brutus explains
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that while they must kill Caesar to save
Rome from dictatorship, they must not kill Marc
Antony as well, or they will appear to be cold blooded killers in the eyes of the people rather than defenders of the country.

Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.

Traitor

Act 3, Scene 1, Page Here Caesar looks at
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Brutus as Brutus stabs him and says,
“You too, Brutus!”
Brutus was Caesar’s good friend. Brutus betrays Caesar when he, like the others, stabs him in the Senate.

How I’ll this taper
Traitor
burns! Ha! Who comes here? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes that shapes this monstrous apparition. It comes upon me. Art thou anything? Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil.
That make my blood cold and my hair to stare? Speak to me what thou art.

Act 4, Scene 3, Page This shows that
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Brutus had guilty conscience about betraying his friend.
We don’t know whether Brutus was imagining the ghost or really saw it, either way we could tell that Brutus had a guilty mind

Or else were this a

Act 3, Scene 1, Page We can see from this

Patriot

savage spectacle!
Our reasons are so full of good regard.
That were you.
Anthony, the son of
Caesar. You should be satisfied

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There is a tide in the Patriot affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune

Act 4, Scene 3, Page We can see from this
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that Brutus is explaining that when you feel that something is right, you should do what you feel is right, or you will regret it.