Show through the movement of verse Brutus’ thought process at 2.1 lines 10-34

This is a soliloquy, designed to get word Brutus thinking and feelings, and also to give the audience a chance to sample his motives. By delaying the action of the play, it increases suspense as the audience enter the mind of a killer and his plotting. Throughout his speech, rhythm, rhyme, repetition and imagery are used to reveal Brutus need to excuse himself. The whole speech is in iambic pentameter. Iambs occur when, of ii syllables, only the second is stressed. Here, death is most stressed, followed by must.moldiness and death contain hard-hitting consonants (t and d) and the combination, along with must, sounds threatening, intent and violent. This rhythmic effect in the first clause sounds determined and terminal so why does Brutus run on? The colon before and, for my part suggests that he feels he needs an explanation for this decision, one that he can justify in general terms (meaning for the general good of the people), if non on a personal level, why he is, quite def initely, going to kill Caesar.The iambic rhythm set up so far is interrupted by lines 2 and 3, with personal and general going from one stressed followed by two unstressed, creating a trickling sound, and supporting a very thoughtful tone. One can feel that Brutus is just trying to persuade himself that killing Caesar will look wish the right thing to do, once he can find a story to justify it. Its not a vicious tone of a murderer and that makes it all the more chilling, as we feel that Caesars life is being weighed in this mans hands. The repeated last syllable is situated in the same place in both lines, creating rhyme.At first, it seems that Brutus values the personal friendship with, and k outrightledge of, Caesar above the general but as he continues, the echo of these two rhyming words is in conflict. The bulk of this speech is spent dialogueing in general terms, never really directing his speech at Caesar at all except to talk of his being crowned and killing him. This explaining of Caesars life would create sympathy for him in the audience, and without this justification Brutus would be simply a base murderer. The poetry of line 5 is typical of Brutus.He mixes beauty with an business line for murder and for a short time, the extraordinary truth about adders in the summer, hidden dangers becoming clear when the plenty is mown and the sun is high, might make the audience believe that Caesar is like an adder. This is the longest line so far, free of pauses, reasoning and worry. But the poetry whips up Brutus own fears. The words bright and brings and the interruption of the iambic skip, with bright day and bring forth both being stressed, creates the effect almost of a drum-roll, erasing whatsoever doubt in Brutus mind that the adder, in the shape of an Imperial Caesar, is not far away.Through lines 6 12 Brutus is again trying to justify killing Caesar. He dehumanises Caesar firstly as an adder and then later as a serpents egg which isnt so dif ferent from the disjoining of remorse from power that Brutus suspects Caesar to be potentially capable of. Although Brutus is trying to persuade himself that this is a political assassination for the good of Rome and the Republic, its easy to notice Brutus is slightly jealous that his old friend, once an equal, is now a god among men. Therefore this is an insight into the possibility that the murder was also personal.These lines are also a period where he is deciding whether or not to kill Caesar. In line 6 he says Crown him that hitting an emotional peak after which he calms himself down speaking in a much lower, less erratic tone. The word But on line 12 is a major turning point in the text. This is where the whole of Brutuss argument lies on common belief not proof. Once again to persuade himself killing Caesar is the right thing to do, he uses a weak argument that says Caesar is employ people to get to the top of the political ladder and when he reaches the top will turn his back on everyone who helped him get at that place.The weakness of this argument is that there are no signs of him ever being evil to his friends before. Brutus describes it as a general model of the common proof that all men grow close with power, which if true would justify killing Caesar while he was in his shell before he could hatch Throughout the soliloquy Brutus appears to be contradicting himself and making remarks that he isnt entirely confident about. To me this shows that Brutus had quite a weak personality and was probably a man under great pressure.