In the line 'I killed not thee with half so good a will,' who is the speaker?

• A. Caesar
• B. Antony
• C. Brutus
• D. Cassius

Answer: (C)

The line centers on a speaker who sees Caesar as a victim and justifies the act as something done with sincere, noble motive. That kind of measured, high-minded justification is how Brutus tends to speak in Julius Caesar. Brutus believes he killed Caesar not out of envy or vengeance, but for the good of Rome, and he addresses Caesar’s corpse in a formal, moral tone that mirrors his philosophy. The other characters don’t fit that voice: Caesar is dead and cannot speak to his killer; Antony’s rhetoric after the assassination is driven by rhetoric and crowd manipulation, not calm self-justification; Cassius’s style is more calculating and ambitious. So this line’s tone and motive point to Brutus as the speaker.