Another omen about Caesar’s future death was sent through his own wife, Calphurnia. On the ides of March, the supposed day of Caesar’s doom, she tells him of a terrible dream she had the night before. She described the nightmare, in which she saw a lioness giving birth in the streets, dying men and their ghosts, and a bloody battle taking place in the Capitol. She even stated that she “saw [Caesar’s] statue, which like a fountain with a hundred spouts, did run pure blood. And many lusty Romans came smiling and did bathe their hands in it.” (Act 2, Scene ii, pg. 84). Calphurnia begged her husband to stay home, despite his meeting with the Senators; in fear of her husband’s life. Yet, Caesar’s decision is wavered when Decius, one of the conspirators,
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Caesar came home as a war hero and a tyrant from killing the Roman leader, Pompey, which gotten him enemies and followers in the idea of him becoming ruler of Rome. Caesar is presented with many signs of his death, but he ignores them all, in his own choice, and in fact, his own beliefs. When Calphurnia first told him of her fears of his death based on her dream, he told her “What can be avoided, who end is purposed by the mighty gods? Yet Caesar shall go forth, for these predictions are to the world in general as to Caesar” (Act 2, Scene ii, pg. 80), basically stating that he would go, if it’s his time to die, it was destined to be. Caesar is a believer of destiny, he thinks that death is something that cannot be meddled by people, but by nature and the gods. He states this once again when he sent a servant to offer a sacrifice upon her dream, which the priests presented him with an animal with no heart, recommending him to stay home, yet he thought the gods were stating he would be a cowardly “beast without a heart if he should stay at home today for fear. No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well” (Act 2. scene ii, pg. 82). Fate had him live, but out of his own pride and free will, he accepted his destiny of his
Caesar came home as a war hero and a tyrant from killing the Roman leader, Pompey, which gotten him enemies and followers in the idea of him becoming ruler of Rome. Caesar is presented with many signs of his death, but he ignores them all, in his own choice, and in fact, his own beliefs. When Calphurnia first told him of her fears of his death based on her dream, he told her “What can be avoided, who end is purposed by the mighty gods? Yet Caesar shall go forth, for these predictions are to the world in general as to Caesar” (Act 2, Scene ii, pg. 80), basically stating that he would go, if it’s his time to die, it was destined to be. Caesar is a believer of destiny, he thinks that death is something that cannot be meddled by people, but by nature and the gods. He states this once again when he sent a servant to offer a sacrifice upon her dream, which the priests presented him with an animal with no heart, recommending him to stay home, yet he thought the gods were stating he would be a cowardly “beast without a heart if he should stay at home today for fear. No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well” (Act 2. scene ii, pg. 82). Fate had him live, but out of his own pride and free will, he accepted his destiny of his