Read the excerpt below from act 2.1 of the tragedy of julius caesar and answer the question that follows.

brutus:
we all stand up against the spirit of caesar,
and in the spirit of men there is no blood.
oh, that we then could come by caesar’s spirit
and not dismember caesar.

which reason explains the irony in brutus’ speech best?

1/the conspirators’ plot involves killing caesar’s body, but not his spirit.

2/the conspirator’s plot involves killing caesar’s spirit, but not his body.

3/caesar’s spirit will save caesar’s body from the conspirators’ plot.

4/caesar’s spirit is not killed with his body.