on and goals will have been attained. He is already king. Therefore Brutus thinks that his ambition will cause him to make bad decisions and inevitably cause him to become a bad ruler. Brutus even goes so far as to compare Caesar to a serpent's egg. "And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell"(II, i, 32-34). A serpent's egg is harmless, but it is the contents inside
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