Answer: Brutus has to decide between loyalty to Caesar and his own honor.
Explanation:
This excerpt expresses the main dilemma of the whole play - that is, the conflict between being a loyal friend and one's own honor.
In Shakespeare's <em>Julius Caesar</em>, a group of conspirators decides to murder the roman general, Caesar, because he has assumed too much power. They do not want him to become a king. In <em>Act I, Scene II</em>, Brutus, a friend of Caesar's, confesses his true feelings. As he hears that people want Caesar to assume this position, he makes a confession to Cassius, one of the conspirators, that he would not like this to happen. As he puts it, he does love Caesar, but loves his honor more. He is not even afraid of death, if that is the price he has to pay.
How do those lines apply to your life? This isn't a question that has one correct answer, but it could be figured that you eat bread right? If you're trying to be philosophical about it, you could talk about how the thunder accompanies the rain and plants are fed by rain, you are fed by plants therefore you shouldn't fear the thunder. This question is entirely up for interpretation.
Explanation:
Emerson means that he sees everything; the metaphor suggests the poet is like a single, huge eye. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
