Read the excerpt from act 2, scene 1, of Julius Caesar.BRUTUS. Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, / To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, / 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. / 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, / 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; / 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.Which statement best explains Brutus's motivation in this scene?

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