Which central idea is reflected in this passage?
a. the impact of fate
b. the extent of loyalty
c. the ruthless of power
d. the importance of compromise

Passage: [BRUTUS.] Messala, I have here receivèd letters,

That young Octavius and Mark Antony

Come down upon us. . . .

MESSALA. Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor.

BRUTUS. With what addition?

MESSALA. That by proscription and bills of outlawry,

Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus

Have put to death an hundred senators.

BRUTUS. Therein our letters do not well agree.

Mine speak of seventy senators that died

By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.

CASSIUS. Cicero one!

MESSALA. Ay, Cicero is dead,

And by that order of proscription.

The ruthlessness of power

Explanation:

This passage is from The tragedy of Julius Caesar.

In this passage we can see that Messala and Brutus received the letters and in those letter there is an information that Antony and Octavius are approaching and that they are condemned many of senators and one of the senators is Cicero. Octavius was Caesar's appointed successor as we know and Cicero is considered as Antony's enemy after Caesar died.

All of this people are people of political and intellectual accomplishments, as they are considered like this in history later too. In spite of all accomplishments and their power they were having enemies and they were killed in many ways.

where is the

boccaccio employs the voice of his narrator dioneo to represent his ideas on the tension between masculinity and femininity.  while dioneo excites the members of the brigata and recognizes women for their unique skills and independent ideas, he concludes the decameron with a story reminiscent of the society from which these young aristocrats escaped, revealing misogynistic overtones.  dioneo boccaccio is able to explore the gender disparity which is inherent in 14th century florentine society.