The Omen: Forces of Nature Play a Very Important Role in Julius Caesar

Calpurnia dreams that Caesar will be murdered and thinks it is foolish. It is a mistake by Caesar to think it is foolish because it foreshadowed his death that eventually happened. His personality got in his own way and ended up costing his life. Caesar ignoring the signs and foreshadows throughout the play ended up costing his own life as his personality got in his own way.

Calpurnia’s second argument begins with a metaphor, “[w]hen beggars die, there are no comets seen” With this device, she emphasizes the intensity of the events happening, she compares the importance of royalty to the powerless, to play to Caesar’s ego. Her next device is hyperbole as she argues against her husband. She claims that the “heavens themselves blaze forth the deaths of princes” to exaggerate how much the people and their gods care about Caesar and to compare her husband to a prince. She then equips herself with influential word choice to flatter Caesar and to place herself as less than him, so he feels that he still holds the power in their relationship. She addresses Caesar as “my lord” while begging him to stay home. Her following device is personification. She accuses his “wisdom [of being] consumed in confidence” to emphasize his clouded judgment to show the realism of what Calpurnia is saying. She next uses an understatement to ask him to “not go forth today.” She is desperate for him to stay, but the understatement highlights the urgency by making it seem negligible. She wants Caesar to “call it [her] fear”, as to why he is staying at home. This selection of detail is her using logos, a logical escape that avoids him seeming weak. With juxtaposition and the connotation of the word choice in each phrase, Calpurnia makes their own home appear safer than the Senate House Caesar wants to go to, telling him to blame her fear for keeping him “in the house and not [his] own. [They’ll] send Mark Antony to the Senate House.” Ending her argument with rich word choice, she tries to implement pathos to convince him that the omens are dangerous because of her own fear. She wants to “prevail” in trying to convince Caesar to

Julius Caesar was a very arrogant man. He thought very highly of himself. Although, everyone in Rome respected him. They didn 't care what he did. I ii 273 He claimed he was not scared of anything. Calpurnia had nightmares, they were thought as representations of signs of Caesar´s death. Caesar wanted to go to the capitol, Calpurnia told him it was not safe because of her nightmares. In her dreams, there were dead men walking, a statue running with blood like a fountain, while many smiling Romans bathed their hands in the blood. She also had a dream of ghosts wandering the city, a lioness giving

     Of the three men, Caesar’s fate seemed most obvious to him and to the reader. However, Caesar used his free will in many instances to in large

Caesar says that cowards die many times before their death and death will come when it will come. Then Caesar asked a servant what the augurers say about the subject and they say they found no heart within the beast. This is a simple act of showing how superstitious Caesar is sends him in to a rage and he decides he will go to the capitol. Then Calpurnia (the voice of reason) says “your wisdom is consumed in confidence” and tells him to tell them it is her fear and not his own that keeps him from the capitol. And Caesar grudgingly agrees. Then Decius Brutus comes in and ruins the whole thing by telling Caesar that her dream was telling how great he is and Decius manages to flatter Caesar enough that he decides to go to the capitol and he tells Calpurnia how foolish her dreams seem now and he leaves. Calpurnia, as we know was right the whole time and Caesar gets assassinated at the capitol. This scene was important in foreshadowing Caesar’s death and showing how overconfident Caesar is, and although Calpurnia’s warning was only one of many she seems to be the only warning with real impact, that is until Decius Brutus comes in to play.

One of the biggest superstitious beliefs in Rome at that time was the power to see the future; which Caesar’s future was to die. Julius Caesar was

Nobody can truly predict someone’s future, or behavior. Without any definite proof, the conspiracy believed that Caesar would become a dictator. Many times the play references how Caesar might act out, but they do not know for

The tragedy of Julius Caesar is a story of struggle and betrayal; however, in it, Shakespeare conveys messages about human nature. Three of the main characters in the play convey the ways that power corrupts and changes people. Brutus’ attitude towards killing Caesar and rising to power, along with his personality, change throughout the first three acts. Cassius’ need for power makes him lose himself and his humanity. Mark Antony, changed by Caesar's death, rises to power after taking it away from those that killed him. In Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, he conveys notions regarding human nature and the ways that power changes and corrupts people; he does this through his characters Brutus, Cassius, and Antony.

Then, Caesar was brought with his second warning from his wife Calpurnia. His wife Calpurnia had the same dream three times that Caesar was being killed. To please his wife, Caesar did not leave that day to go to the Senate. Finally, the last warning of Caesar’s death was brought through a letter. In the letter, it basically was warning Caesar that the conspirators were going to do something towards Caesar. Caesar did not look at the letter and his fate ends up coming towards him. In similarity, Jesus was brought with 3 predictions of his Passion. Jesus first predictions of his Passion was that he will “Suffer, be rejected, killed, and will rise after three days ( 8:31).” Jesus’s disciples did not comprehend. Second, Jesus had another prediction, but this time he predicted that he will be “delivered, killed, and will rise in three days (9:30-31).” Third, Jesus once again had a final prediction that he would be “delivered, condemned, mocked, flogged, killed, and will rise after three days (10:33-34).” In the play, Julius Caesar had an abominate conspiracy group towards him. Julius was betrayed by a close

Omens are not meant to be ignored, yet some characters still choose to ignore them. The protagonist, Julius Caesar, is given a warning by a soothsayer, who tells him to “Beware the ides of March”(1.2.21). This phrase is said to him by a soothsayer during the race he participates in. Caesar immediately dismisses the soothsayer's words and calls , calling him a dreamer. The ides of March is supposed to be the day where he would be crowned king. Because it contradicts with what he wants to believe, however, Caesar decides to completely ignore this statement. His death could have been avoided if he had chosen to listen, but by disregarding the soothsayer, it leads to

Another, of many reasons that Caesar’s assassination was a necessary tragedy is he ignored the warnings and signs. In the world today most don’t believe signs exist, but in Caesar’s time it was crazy to ignore them. In the Roman Republic it was believed that signs were set by the gods to warn people and no one would ignore the gods. The priests preformed a ceremony and got bad results, which led them to believe that Julius Caesar was in danger. Caesar still refused to miss the Senate that day, even as his friends begged that he postpone the meeting. ( "The Assassination of Julius Caesar, 44 BC." ) These days to many people this is all worthless and fake, but whether signs from gods are real or not is not the question. The question is what kind of many ignores not only the traditions of his people, but his own gods? A man who would rather be where he is in power, then heed the warnings of what he believed to be his gods is not a man the Senate believed Rome needed.

This passage revealed how much of a conceited person Caesar is. The words that Shakespeare chose to make Caesar says showed how he had too much confidence in himself considering that his death is in the next scene. The words that Shakespeare used are intended to reach out to the reader and give them a better understanding of the kind of person that Caesar is. He was successful in carrying out the message. Overall, Shakespeare is known for each character a specific personality that suits them depending what plays they are

	Julius Caesar vacillates, or changes, his mind throughout the play and this downfall is shown to be one of Caesar’s hamartias. On the day Caesar is to go to the Capitol, he changes his decisions frequently. Caesar defies the warnings of Calpurnia and the priests and Caesar says that she, Caesar, shall go forth to the Capitol this day. "Caesar. Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me Ne’er looked but on my back. When they shall see The face of Caesar, they are vanished." Through this quotation, it seems Caesar has made his mind to go forth to the Capitol. Calpurnia, though, is able to persuade him to stay home and send word that he is sick. Caesar replies, "Caesar. Mark Antony shall say I am not well, And for thy humour I will stay at home."(2,2,55-56) Decius then flatters Caesar and is able to persuade him that Calpurnia’s nightmare is misinterpreted and that he

The warnings against the Ides of March, first heard from the soothsayer, are specifically the most repeated omen throughout the play. It is repeated so much because it is predicts the impending doom upon Caesar. Caesar’s refusal to listen to the soothsayer, and the various other warnings against the Ides of March, shows that there is no difference between fate and free will. Caesar, who is completely cocky and confident in himself, such that he can put off fate, has the free will to ignore the warnings, to ignore the signs, and he does just so. Because of Caesar’s ignorance, his fate is sealed from then on. If Caesar had somehow read the warnings correctly, or even at all, his fate would be completely different; but his fate is not the only one which would be different. Whether or not Caesar would be king is arguable, but what is not, is the fact that if the warnings about the Ides of March would have been taken with more seriousness,

Julius Caesar’s negligence and misinterpretation to the omens from the supernatural and prophecies result in his failure to prevent his death. Caesar’s choice to ignore the soothsayer’s warnings to “beware the Idles of March”(I.ii.18) represents his arrogance and misunderstanding of being invulnerable. Therefore, triggering the inability to heed omens from the soothsayer that refers to the exact date of Caesar’s assassination. He sees the soothsayer as “a dreamer”(I.ii.26) and fails to perceive the