a. Brutus says, "Let's be sacrifices, but nor butchers, Caius." Collect together the expressions used by Brutus which are appropriate to butchery.
bloody, cut the head off, hack the limbs, wrath in death, envy, blood, dismember Caesar, bleed for it, kill him boldly, carve him as a dish, hew him as a carcass, chide'em, purgers not murderers
b. Brutus says that ideally they should be killing Caesar's spirit, not his body. Look up the words of Caesar's ghost in Act IV Scene 3, lines 281, 282, and 284, and comment on the irony.
How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?
I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition.
It comes upon me. Art thou any thing?
Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,
That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare?
Speak to me what thou art.
This is ironic because he talks of killing Caesar's spirit and Caesar's spirit does not die and comes back to haunt him. He describes it as an angel and that it is a weakness of his eyes. This is ironic because it shows that Brutus wasn't viewing the situation correctly when Caesar was to be murdered.
c. Brutus turns harsh words and phrases into softer ones, to make a savage act seem like a civilized one. How does he choose his words to achieve this?
He says: for the general (for the good of the people), our performance, consiracy, sacrificers not burtchers, stand up against the spirit of Caesar, kill him boldly, carve him fit for the gods, purgers not murderers.
d. How is Brutus's dismissal of Antony consistent in expression with his earlier imagery?
Brutus dismissed Antony throughout act 2. This relates to his earlier imagery such as Antony being as a limb or Caesar so he wants to get rid of him.