Julius Caesar: Solo Acting

BRUTUS:

Our course will seem 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.
We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar;
And in the spirit of men there is no blood:
O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,
And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,
Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,
Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds:
And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,
Stir up their servants to an act of rage,
And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make
Our purpose necessary and not envious:
Which so appearing to the common eyes,
We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.
And for Mark Antony, think not of him;

For he can do no more than Caesar's arm
When Caesar's head is off.

In act two scene 1 Brutus is in the garden of his house. Storm clouds pass across the sky when he is speaking to Cassius about how Brutus wants to kill Caesar. He desperately wants the assassination to be honorable. Brutus only wants to do what is best for Rome so he describes how he wishes the way the act will be. In this scene, you can really see that he wants it to appear honorable and not murderous. But he truly, from the heart, wants this to be a noble act.