Drama | 2024
Brutus begins to fear that Caesar’s lust for power has made him a threat to the Republic of Rome. The thought conflicts him, but the man Brutus admires seems to be more and more untrustworthy, a dormant serpent lurking in the state. Driven to the brink by his fears, Brutus decides to take a stand.
The designs and narrative are based off a monologue from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, wherein Brutus compares Caesar to a snake's egg that could hatch and prey upon the Republic of Rome:
"Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented,
Would run to these and these extremities.
And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg—
Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous—
And kill him in the shell."
Music: Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene by Hozier