Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 2, scene 1. decius. shall no man else be touched, but only caesar? cassius. decius, well urged. i think it is not meet mark antony, so well beloved of caesar, should outlive caesar. we shall find of him a shrewd contriver. and you know his means,35 if he improve them, may well stretch so far as to annoy us all; which to prevent, let antony and caesar fall together. brutus. our course will seem too bloody, caius cassius, to cut the head off and then hack the limbs,40 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.45 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,50 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,55 which so appearing to the common eyes, we shall be called 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.60 which conclusion does this excerpt best support?
a)mark antony’s life will be spared because he will be useless without caesar. b)mark antony should also be assassinated because he and caesar are so close. c)all of caesar’s followers should be put to death, not just mark antony.
d)no matter whom brutus and the others kill, they must do so without anger.

2nd option

explanation:

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the metamorphosis is based on an evident father-son problem. this story shows, as a result of the unthinkable transformation of the son in an insect, the deformation and destruction of the individual caused by the authoritarian and hierarchical structures of the family. the narrative begins with the transformation into an insect of enormous proportions of the traveling salesman gregor samsa, a lonely, introverted and submissive, who keeps his family with his work. when he worked, he was appreciated by everyone, but, now that he can not work, he is despised, especially by his father, but this is going to be joined, painfully for the protagonist, first his mother and, finally, his own sister, grete, with whom he had held a special relationship of complicity and affection for many years.

condemned by a deep sense of responsibility, gregor fears the reaction that his frightful aspect will incite in his family. he feels guilty for not being able to continue being useful to the beings he maintained. his own family, however, is ashamed and runs away from him, and even tyrannizes and resists him. the father, of a severe and despotic character, humiliates him and treats him with great cruelty. all his attempts to escape from the confinement to which he is subjected in his own room fail before the hostile rejection of the beings that surround him. prisoner in his lair and unable to continue playing the only function of making money he had, finally chooses, with the consent of his parents and sister, to die of starvation. with this, he is freed from a servile and unhappy existence. the family appreciates gregor while he fulfills the interests. but when he is unable to continue earning money, it becomes a problem, a shame, and family relationships begin to become tense, until coexistence becomes impossible.