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Jiang extends the same paradox to hell's three great betrayers, arguing that Judas, Brutus, and Cassius were crucial to the Christian imperial story and therefore seem both necessary and damned.
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Jiang reframes Brutus and Cassius as the betrayers of a host, since they gained access to Caesar as friends, allies, and guests inside his circle.
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Jiang argues that the placement of Brutus and Cassius implies that Virgil, not Lucifer, is the real power organizing hell in the poem's deeper logic.
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At the center of hell, Jiang says Lucifer chews Judas, Brutus, and Cassius; Judas makes sense as betrayer of Jesus, while Brutus and Cassius create a paradox Jiang will explain.
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The placement of Brutus and Cassius beside Judas creates a paradox because it would imply Julius Caesar is divine, yet Caesar remains in limbo.
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In Jiang's Roman-status model, mercy can be received as contempt: Caesar's clemency toward Cassius may have humiliated rather than reconciled him.
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"Yes? Sometimes I think this is a little bit funny that it's almost like a father whose son is really good at table tennis,..."
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"...human history. And they are Judas Iscariot. They are Brutus and Cassius. Brutus and Cassius, of course, are the two who assassinated Julius Caesar...."
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"So I think Julius Caesar was about to give a big speech, and in the forum, before they beckoned him in and said, let's..."
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"Yeah. To Brutus, okay? So you guys don't know this, but there's speculation that Brutus was his son. All right. So remember, this is,..."
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"Yeah. But then the question then is, who is really master of hell? And who put these guys there?"
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"...was Virgil all along. Okay? Because why else are Brutus and Cassius suffering like that? Okay? Does that make sense? This is the shock..."
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"...sense. The other people don't actually make any sense. They are Cassius and Brutus. And I'll explain to you why it doesn't really make..."
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"But basically, the king of God, sorry, the king of hell is before us."
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"...And again, this makes perfect sense. But you have Brutus and Cassius."
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"And Brutus and Cassius are the ones who betrayed Julius Caesar. Okay? So if you just accept the logic, you would think, okay. Well,..."
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"...that he was better than Julius Caesar. So that's Decimus Brutus. Cassius is a different story. Cassius fought for Pompey the Great. And because..."
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"...not say a word. That other who seems so robust is Cassius. But night has come again, and it is time for us to..."
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