Read the excerpt from act 2, scene 1, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.BRUTUS. Let 'em enter.[Exit LUCIUS]They are the faction. O conspiracy, Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,When evils are most free? O then by dayWhere wilt thou find a cavern dark enoughTo mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy.Hide it in smiles and affability; For if thou path, thy native semblance on,Not Erebus itself were dim enoughTo hide thee from prevention.[Enter the conspirators: CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CINNA, METELLUS CIMBER, and TREBONIUS]CASSIUS. I think we are too bold upon your rest.Good morrow, Brutus. Do we trouble you?BRUTUS. I have been up this hour, awake all night.Know I these men that come along with you?CASSIUS. Yes, every man of them; and no man hereBut honours you; and every one doth wishYou had but that opinion of yourself Which every noble Roman bears of you.
Read the passage from act 5, scene 5, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.BRUTUS. Come hither, good Volumnius. List a word.VOLUMNIUS. What says my lord?BRUTUS. Why this, Volumnius.The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to meTwo several times by night—at Sardis once, And this last night, here in Philippi fields. I know my hour is come.VOLUMNIUS. Not so, my lord.BRUTUS. Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes. Our enemies have beat us to the pit;[Low alarums]It is more worthy to leap in ourselvesThan tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,Thou know’st that we two went to school together.Even for that, our love of old, I prithee, Hold thou my sword hilts, whilst I run on it.VOLUMNIUS. That’s not an office for a friend, my lord.
What evidence from this passage supports the theme that there can be honor in defeat? Select three options.
Read the passage from act 2, scene 1, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.[BRUTUS.] And to speak truth of Caesar,I have not known when his affections swayed More than his reason. But 'tis a common proofThat 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 degreesBy which he did ascend. So Caesar may.Then lest he may, prevent. And since the quarrelWill bear no colour 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 eggWhich, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous,And kill him in the shell.
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