Who says, 'Oh, Julius Caesar, you are still powerful. Your ghost walks the earth and turns our swords toward our own stomachs'?

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

Answer: (B)

This line centers on the supernatural motif that haunts the conspirators after Caesar’s death. In Julius Caesar, Brutus is the character most overwhelmed by guilt and the sense that Caesar’s power remains alive in the world, even after the murder. When Brutus speaks of Caesar’s ghost walking the earth and turning their swords onto their own stomachs, he’s expressing the belief that their act of killing Caesar has come back to harm them: the ghost’s presence magnifies their fear and makes their own weapons feel like instruments of self-destruction. It captures Brutus’s inner conflict and the idea that guilt and fate can weigh as heavily as any physical foe.

The other characters aren’t depicted in that moment as haunted by Caesar’s spectral influence. Cassius is driven by political calculation and pride, Antony is focused on public rhetoric and revenge, and Octavius is maneuvering for power—none of these lines reflect the ghostly visitation Brutus experiences. So the line is spoken by Brutus, highlighting his internal struggle and the play’s themes of guilt, fate, and the unseen consequences of noble but tragic choices.