#its CASSIUS' ends and what he does to brutus justifies the means even though brutus will later eclipse him and bite back | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mjvnivsbrvtvs · 3 years ago

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it's the insatiable hunger of 'yond cassius has a lean and hungry look,' and the incurable starvation of 'my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; I cannot drink too much of brutus' love,' it's about eating someone that you’re supposed to--

#this is! a queued post!#gabriel draws julius caesar #shakespeare's julius caesar #do you have enough love in your heart to convince a man to commit an act outside of his nature and make him believe #it was within him this entire time?#do you have enough VIOLENCE IN YOUR HEART TO CALL SOMETHING LIKE THAT LOVE----#anyway brutus/cassius isn't my playing field but grandson's d/irty is a brutus/cassius song actually #(like listen. i give cassius a lot of grief. but in this play? i can get SO MUCH mileage out of him. who else in this play #is giving me the symbolic cannibalism? the corruption of desire? the violence to remake a man into something useful for YOU #its CASSIUS' ends and what he does to brutus justifies the means even though brutus will later eclipse him and bite back #its a snake eating itself baby!)#the insatiable hunger in violence and desire

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