Betrayer or Patriot Chart

Using what you learned in this unit, record evidence from the play in the Traitor or Patriot chart that could be used to prove Brutus
is either a traitor or a patriot. Record your evidence, identify if it supports that Brutus is a traitor or patriot, and explain why you think
the way you do. An example showing Brutus as traitor and as a patriot is completed for you as an example.
Ask yourself the following questions about each piece of evidence you provide:

Is this line sincere, sarcasm, or something else? How can you tell?
Which words in this line suggest the characters true feelings?
Are there multiple ways to interpret this line? What are they?)

Evidence

Betrayer or
Patriot

Act and scene

(provide
citation)

Explanation

Our course will seem too bloody, Caius

Patriot

Act 2 - 1

Here Brutus explains that while they must kill Caesar to save

Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the

Rome from dictatorship, they must not kill Marc Antony as

well, or they will appear to be cold blooded killers in the eyes

limbs,
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;

of the people rather than defenders of the country.

For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:

Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers,
Caius.
Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.

Traitor

Act 3 - 1

Here Caesar looks at Brutus as Brutus stabs him and says,

You too, Brutus! Brutus was Caesars good friend. Brutus
betrays Caesar when he, like the others, stabs him in the
Senate.

Or else were this a savage spectacle!

Our reasons are so full of good regard

Patriot

Act 3 - 1

Traitor

Act 4 - 3

Brutus killed him believing that he would have become evil

and that anyone would have done it.

That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,

You should be satisfied.
How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes

This shows that Brutus may have has some second thoughts

here? I think it is the weakness of mine

eyes That shapes this monstrous

about killing him and maybe her regrets it or thinks there was
some other way. This may also be the sign of a guilty

apparition. It comes upon me. Art thou

any thing? Art thou some god, some

conscience

angel, or some devil, That makest my

blood cold and my hair to stare? Speak to
me what thou art.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune.

Patriot

Act 4 3

He feels that killing his friend was right at first and that he
went with it or he may have regretted his decision. But later in
this scene it shows him being torn both ways because of
second thoughts he was having.