Examples Of Warnings In Julius Caesar

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Julius Caesar was known as ambitious by a lot of people. Thinking that Caesar would grow even more in power, a group of people came up with a plan to kill him. Julius Caesar is a play written by William Shakespeare. In the play, Julius Caesar was a powerful man and a senator. He died on the Ides of March (15 March) after being stabbed 23 times by a group of conspirators. He died because he didn't listen to the warnings brought to him. He didn't hear the Soothsayer, his wife; Calphurnia, and the letter of Artemidorus. Julius Caesar precisely knew he was going to be killed. In the play, Caesar avoided all the warnings that were brought to him. One of those warnings is from the Soothsayer, the Soothsayer came up to him one day and told him. "Beware the ides of March"(I, ii, 21). He claimed that on that day something bad would happen to him. Caesar ignored this warning completely and didn’t think much of it. By ignoring this warning he wanted to show Rome that if something bad would happen to his fate that he was prepared. This wasn't the only warning that he avoided. …show more content…

"She saw my statue, Which like a fountain with an hundred spouts, Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans Came smiling and did bathe their hands in it" ( II, ii, 81-84). Calpurnia; his wife, had nightmares that there was blood coming out of Caesar's statue and that the city of Rome bathed in his blood. This warning almost convinced him but fate had other plans. Decius came to his house and convinced him to go to the Senate. Julius Caesar was warned a lot but he decided to ignore them

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