Read the passage from act 2. scene 1, of The Tragedy Which piece of evidence best supports the theme that
of Julius Caesar.
power can corrupt people?
[BRUTUS.] And to speak truth of Caesar,
have not known when his affections swayed
"lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / Whereto the
climber-upward turns his face"
More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
"scorning the pase degrees . By which he did
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
ascendr
But when he once attains the upmost round,
have not known when his affections swayed More
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
than his reason"
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
0 'the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing ne iS'
By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.
Then lest he may, prevent. And since the quarrel
Will 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 egg
Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous,
And kill him in the shell.