Calpurnia In Julius Caesar

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In the Shakespeare written play, Julius Caesar, the main character Caesar has a wife named Calpurnia. She is one of the two small women roles that are in the play. It is almost a noticeable theme in this play that women are portrayed somewhat inferior to men not because of the way roman times were, but because of the attitude towards women during the time that Shakespeare wrote the play; The Elizabethan Era. Calpurnia may have had no interactions with any characters besides Caesar but the interactions her and Caesar do have are important parts to the plot development. The role of Calpurnia shows the contrast between Caesar’s private life to his public political life (enotes.com, par 5) and foreshadows the climax of the play. Calpurnia appears …show more content…

It is only imaginable how this make Calpurnia feel. This inferiority of women to men and how men thought less of women back then relates back to my mention of the Elizabethan Era. The Elizabethan Era was 1558-1603; Shakespeare wrote the play, Julius Caesar, in 1599. The Elizabethan Era was an era when Queen Elizabeth was in reign. “Elizabethan Women were subservient to men.” (Elizab. Women., par 1). It shows that the time period that this was written has an effect on why Calpurnia was treated the way she was treated. Calpurnia’s character had an important role in the plot development. When we see Calpurnia, a worrisome wife who just wants her husband to stay safe, pleading to Caesar to stay home, we then see Caesar in a more domestic state willing to please his wife. We see a more private side to Caesar besides the political life he leads (enotes.com, par 6). The one and only scene with Calpurnia was also the biggest foreshadowing technique that Shakespeare used. The dream Calpurnia had was basically representing that Caesar was going to die because there were people who wanted him dead. No one wanted to believe Calpurnia though and her “foolish” beliefs. At last, when Caesar does decide to go to the Senate, he is assassinated due to repeatedly being stabbed (reference to Calpurnia’s dream of Caesar’s statue with a hundred spouts spouting blood) by Cassius and Brutus; two conspirators against Caesar. Calpurnia’s dream foreshadowed the assassination of

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