Read the two excerpts from act 2, scene 1, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.Excerpt 1:[BRUTUS.] Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar / I have not slept. / Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. / The genius and the mortal instruments / Are then in council, and the state of man, / Like to a little kingdom, suffers then / The nature of an insurrection.Excerpt 2:BRUTUS. Kneel not, gentle Portia. / You are my true and honourable wife, / As dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That visit my sad heart.PORTIA. If this were true, then should I know this secret. / Tell me your counsels; I will not disclose 'em. / I have made strong proof of my constancy, / Giving myself a voluntary wound / Here in the thigh. Can I bear that with patience, / And not my husband's secrets?How do Brutus's moral dilemmas in each excerpt compare?

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