Julius Caesar Essay In Julius Caesar there was a character named Caesar. My thesis is that Caesar was loved by many but he needed to die, in fear of becoming too powerful. In this essay I will prove my thesis statement. To make you better understand I will talk about it. His wife Calpurnia had a bad dream, doesn’t think nothing of the weird stuff that is going on in the Roman streets, danger should fear Caesar, he enjoys Decius’ flattery swayed, and compares himself to the North Star. When Caesar was talking to Calpurnia about her dream, Calpurnia was talking about how scared she was. Then Caesar comes up and says, “That Caesar is more dangerous than he,” (2.2.45). Then he also says, “Caesar should be a beast without a heart, if he should stay at home today for fear,” (2.2.42-43). What Caesar means in those two quotes is that he is not afraid and he shouldn't be afraid for Calpurnia’s sake. Calpurnia says that he should stay home today because she is scared. She then says that we can send Anthony to tell the Senate that you are sick. Then when Caesar gave it Calpurnia there was a knock at the door. …show more content…
When Caesar opens the door, he sees that it is only Decius, one of the conspirators'.
Caesar says he is right on time because he needed him to go to the Senate and tell him that Caesar will not be coming. Calpurnia says that he is sick and should stay home today, then Decius says that you don’t look sickly. Caesar then explains that Calpurnia had a bad dream and she is scared. Decius is trying to make Caesar go to the Senate, so the conspirators can kill him. Then Decius says, “To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar, if you shall send them word you will not come, their minds might change,” (2.2.94-96). Caesar says “How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia! I am ashamed I did yield to them, give me my robe, for I will go,”
(2.105-107). Then Caesar shows up at the Senate. Then Artemidorus tries to save his life by writing the conspirators names down and tries to make Caesar read it but Caesar wouldn’t it. He said he wouldn’t read it if it had something to do with him to Rome is more important. Caesar walks into the Senate house and sees all the conspirators in the same room and he didn’t know they were going to kill him. Caesar then says “I am constant as the north star, of whose true-fix'd and resting quality, there is no fellow in the firmament,” (3.1.60). Then Cassius strikes him first, then all the other conspirators start striking. The last person to strike and talk to him was Brutus. Before Caesar took his last breath, he said, “Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar,” (3.1.77). Then Caesar dies and the conspirators talk to the people and Antony will also speak at his funeral. I hope this explains my thesis for Caesar, Caesar was loved by many, but he needed to die, in fear of becoming too powerful. What I think my thesis means that he made a decision that led people to feel they had no choice to kill him. I have went over Calpurnia’s dream, he doesn’t think much about the weird stuff that is happening, danger should fear Caesar, how he enjoys Decius’ flattery swayed, and lastly he he compares himself to the north star.
The rhetorical question is used to make Caesar feel as if he is being immature and difficult for not wanting to take the chance of meeting his end. He addresses Caesar by saying, “If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper/’Lo Caesar is afraid.” (2.2.105-106). The rhetorical question intentionally draws to light the matter of what the people will believe if the mighty Caesar chooses not to arrive. Resurfacing on his policy of inflating Caesar’s ego, he contradicts his earlier claims of how mighty he is. Caesar has been told frequently and for a long period of time just how great he is by nearly every soul he comes across. The sudden declaration of his frailties shocks Caesar to the reality of his predicament, that being that it is only a matter of time before his power will run out. Caesar feels that if he waits too long or makes the wrong moves he will never receive the opportunity to fulfill his one wish in life, to become king. The ultimate goal of Decius’s sermon was to unknowingly lead Caesar to his death. This goal is reached due to Caesar’s unwavering desire for power. The use of repetition, inversion, and rhetorical questions helped push Caesar towards his dismal
In the following scene, Caesar is set to receive his crown. The night before, Calpurnia sees bad omens, and hopes that Caesar will stay home. On the other hand, the conspirators are planning the assassination of Caesar at the Capitol, and they need him there to receive his fate. Knowing Caesar well, Decius urges Caesar to go to the Capitol and receive his crown. Using various rhetorical devices, Calpurnia attempts to urge Caesar to stay home, while Decius tries to get Caesar to the Capitol.
Caesar is all about conquering power and he is afraid of nothing. Before he is murdered, he says “The things that threatened me ne’er looked but on my back. When they shall see the face of Caesar, they shall vanish” (II, ii, 575). This shows how his mind is only set on killing others to get rid of a problem.
Would an honorable man murder his best friend? In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar started as an innocent citizen of Rome, but soon made his way to the throne. Caesar started bettering Rome, but certain men accused him of becoming too ambitious. The conspirators, the men against Caesar, brutally murdered him because of his “ambition”. Marcus Brutus was Caesar’s supposed best friend but led the revolt against him. Brutus is characterized in the play as being gullible, noble, and naïve.
CAESAR: He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass.” (1.2.28-29) Othsayer appears to be the fortuneteller who tries to warn Caesar of an unknown danger in this situation but Caesar quickly dismisses the idea. Caesar demonstrates his control of his own life, that the predictions are merely dreams that can never turn into reality. Under such conditions, it cannot be the fate but rather the free will of Caesar himself to blame for his death for taking risks and facing life in his own way. Another instance of fate is Casca's observations of a dreadful night. He describes the setting as if there are burning slaves, crawling lion, and ghostly women on the street of the Capitol. (1.3.25-32) These omens are usually associated with fate, as that supernatural sights hints the happening of a tragedy soon, but they don't necessarily define the tragedy itself. They can refer to a series of other events and not the assassination of Caesar. Lastly, the night before the assassination, Calphurnia convinces her husband to stay home due to a nightmare, but Caesar responds with as if it is no big matter in "CAESAR: Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight. Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out "Help, ho, they murder Caesar!" (2.2.1-3) In her dream, Calpurnia claims to see the death of her husband whose blood flows all over Rome. Her fear toward
Cassius believes that he should not be ruler of Rome for a few very specific reasons, so to combat this he convinces Marcus Brutus to join his conspiracy by forging fake letters. Brutus is very honorable and is loved by many people in Rome, so he would bring the people to their side. On the 15th of March Caesar went to the capital despite the multiple warnings he was given. Calpurnia ,Caesar’s wife, dreamt of his statue running with blood and begged him to stay home. Although Caesar ignored it when Decius convinced him that it represented the good and richness that he would bring to Rome.
Caesar's death was a most tragic event indeed, for he would have made a great Roman monarch. However, there were many unheeded warnings. caveats which might have averted his death. In the first act itself we see that Caesar comes across a soothsayer. who fore tells that the future holds terrible things for Caesar.
Decius uses flattery and persuasion when speaking to Brutus. Decius is an active member of the Conspirators so he is very motivated into getting Caesar to go to the Senate House. The first thing that Decius says when he walks into Caesar's house is "Caesar, all hail! Good morrow, worthy Caesar" (II, ii, 30). Decius also goes on and calls Caesar "most mighty". Decius is already on Caesar's good side. After catching up on Calpurnia's dream, he uses his quick wit to distort Calpurnia's foreshadowing dream by saying it is "misinterpreted". He explains that the dream "Signifies that from (Caesar) Rome shall suck/Reviving blood, and that great men shall press/for tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance" (II, ii, 31). Caesar seems to be amazed by this version of the interpretation; in fact, he likes this version a lot better mainly because Decius uses so much flattery.
For instance, although Caesar received many signs of his impending death, he was quick to accept Decius’ explanation for the signs. This is because Caesar believes himself to be beloved by Rome, so when Decius shared this view Caesar agreed immediately. In spite of the fact that Calpurnia interpreted her dream alternatively, even saying, “How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!/I am ashamed I did yield to them./Give me my robe, for I will go” (2.3.105-107). Furthermore, Caesar disregarded the premonition of the Soothsayer, who warned Caesar of the Ides of March. Caesar did not believe that he was disliked, so therefore could not believe that he was to be assassinated, “He is a dreamer, let us leave him.
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is an intimate portrayal of the famed assassination of Julius Caesar and the complex inner workings of the men who committed the crime. In one particularly revealing scene, two of the men closest to Caesar, one a conspirator in his murder and one his second-in command, give orations for the deceased. Despite being simple in appearance, these two speeches do much of the work in developing and exposing the two characters in question. Though both have a love for Caesar, Mark Antony's is mixed with a selfish desire for power, while Brutus' is pure in nature, brought to a screeching halt by his overpowering stoicism. These starkly-contrasted personalities influence the whole of the play, leading to its tragic-but-inevitable end.
...ed a vital role in the novel was when the fearfully voiced her opinion on whether Caesar should go to the Senate and when she was reported to have had a dream in which she, “…in her sleep cried out, ‘Help, ho! They murder Caesar!’ Who’s within?” (Act 2, ii, 3-4). Foreshadowing the murder of her husband, and begging him to not go out, Calpurnia essentially controlled the fate of Caesar. It is remarkable to think that if Caesar had only listened to his wife, the entire course of the story would have been dramatically different.
Imagine living in a city ruled by the greatest dictator. The city is called Rome. Your city’s general or dictator, Julius Caesar, gets killed by his friends after he had a relationship with Cleopatra. After his death, she moved on to having a relationship with Marc Antony. Marc Antony was told that Cleopatra was dead, so he attempted to kill himself. When she knew he was really dead, she committed suicide as well.
Calphurnia in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, based on Plutarch’s account of her having a nightmare where “Caesar was slain, and that she had him in her arms (“Sources” 107),” fears for her husband’s life on account of these superstitious happenings and states “O Caesar, these things are beyond all use, / And I do fear them (2.2.25-26).” Rather than being in support of these superstitions and therefore believing that fate is determined by the Gods, Calphurnia’s fear and several mentions of her physical weakness (1.2.9-11) and foolishness (2.2.110) within the play discredits the validity of such portents and omens. With these signs devalued, Shakespeare argues that it is the decisions of men alone that determines their fate and the faults of these decisions that lead to an imminent
The main thing Caesar’s wife, Calpurnia does in the play is tell Caesar to stay at home on the day of his murder because of many unnatural events that have taken place the night before and because she has had nightmares about his assassination. On the morning of the ides of march is the first time we meet Calpurnia, her entrance is act 2 scene one when she tells Caesar “You shall not stir out of your house today.” Caesar decides he shall “forth” until Calpurnia tells him why he shouldn’t go to the capitol today. Some of the reasons she included were:
Calpurnia’s dream predicted Caesar’s death well, after being stabbed by all of his friends and bleeding to death, the men that killed him bathed in his blood happily thinking Rome will be safe. The omen of Caesar’s ghost visiting Brutus represented Brutus’s death. Caesar said “I will see you in Philippi,” meaning he will see Brutus at the place of the battle and watch him die, which he did. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar had the ongoing theme of Fate versus Free Will, but it seemed that fate was mostly shown.