act 2, scene 1, of the tragedy of
which piece of evidence best supports the theme that power
can corrupt people?
"lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / whereto the
climber-upward turns his face"
"scorning the base degrees / by which he did ascend"
"i have not known when his affections swayed / more
than his reason"
"the quarrel / will bear no colour for the thing he is"
rak truth of caesar,
n his affections swayed
but 'tis a common proof
ig ambition's ladder,
upward turns his face;
ains the upmost round,
er turns his back,
corning the base degrees
nd. so caesar may.
vent. and since the quarrel
the thing he is,
that he is, augmented,
d these extremities;
mas a serpent's egg
das his kind grow mischievous,