Hurry and answer my other question as well you i am being timed 4 read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2, of julius caesar. brutus. what means this shouting? i do fear the people choose caesar for their king. cassius. ay, do you fear it? then must i think you would not have it so. brutus. i would not, cassius; yet i love him well. but wherefore do you hold me here so long? what is it that you would impart to me? if it be aught toward the general good, set honour in one eye and death i’th’ other, and i will look on both indifferently; for let the gods so speed me as i love the name of honour more than i fear death. what is the effect of cassius's question to brutus? brutus begins to distrust cassius's opinion of caesar. brutus tells cassius that caesar should not be king. brutus supports caesar's crowning as king of rome. brutus supports cassius's rise to power in rome.