Brutus shows that he is killing Caesar as a patriot and a defender for Rome by saying to Caius, “…Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius. / …Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; / Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods, / Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds: / …We shall be call’d purgers, not murderers (2.1.23). Brutus tries to justify his reason for wanting to kill Caesar by saying, “…And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg / Which hatch’d would as his kind grow mischievous, / and kill him in the shell,” showing Caesar should be killed before he gains too much power (2.1.19). Although Caesar may be Brutus’s friend, Brutus still had concerns about him, and says, “What means this shouting? I do fear, the people / Choose Caesar for their king,” which makes Brutus a little uneasy because he doesn’t want Caesar to rule even though he is his friend