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While this motif does not always include the plebeians, one salient example of this duality and contradiction occurs in Act V, Scene 1 as Cassius goes against his words to Brutus in Act I, Scene 2 when he solicits him as a conspirator in the assassination of Caesar. For, when Brutus seems reluctant to join in the conspiracy because the "eye sees not itself," Cassius urges him to create his own destiny,
Another example of duality of perspective occurs with Marc Antony, who is Act III portrays the loving Roman who is loyal to the Caesars and mocks Brutus for his dishonor. Yet, after he has been in the triumvirate with Octavius Caesar and M. Aemilius Lepidus after the death of Caesar, Antony displays shamelessly a disloyalty to the Roman people and to Lepidus in Act IV when he sends Lepidus on an errand to fetch the will of Caesar so that Antony can lessen some of the legacies promised to the plebians. After Lepidus departs, Antony feels no guilt about his treachery as he tells Octavius,
This is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands. Is it fit,
The three-fold world divided, he should stand
One of the three to share it
Later, then, Antony contradicts himself as he accuses Brutus and Cassius of the same expediency of which he himself is guilty in ridding himself of Lepidus:
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