Julius Ceasar
- This is a preview of the essay.
To view the full text you must login!
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar's thoughts and actions dramatically affected the course of the play. If he had listened and acknowledged his warning signs he might have lived to be king. His acting arrogant actually turned more people against him than there were originally. His rejecting the crown seems as if it is a cry of help making the conspirators hate him even more. If Caesar had just been more modest he would probably still be alive.
When Caesar returns from his victory, Rome's citizens welcome him. He is the confronted by a soothsayer reciting, "beware the ides of March." Caesar then disregards that thinking the mad is insane. Then when he is to attend to a meeting his wife Calpurnia wishes him not to go because she has seen many ill omens in Rome. She finally persuades him to stay and he stays just to make her happy, not because he's afraid...