Brutus has listened to Cassius and has been given evidence that Caesar is an ambitious man who craves power--he denies the crown, but it is made obvious to the crowd and to Brutus that Caesar does crave the position and the power. It will only be a matter of time before Caesar is Rome's Emperor when Rome had always been ruled by a group of men in order to prevent power from overwhelming and tempting a single man into dictatorship.
Brutus is at war with himself since he has no ill will toward Caesar. However, with the best interests of Rome at heart, Brutus agrees that Caesar is dangerous with the following quote: “And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg, / Which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, / And kill him in the shell.” Therefore, he deserves to die, and he agrees to join the conspiracy to rid Rome of its poisonous serpent.
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