Calpurnia's Dream In Julius Caesar

In Shakespeare's play, “Julius Caesar”, there was a Roman that was loved by many but he needed to die, in fear of becoming too powerful, his name was Caesar. In the next five paragraphs I will explain that theory. I will talk about his wife’s dream, how he doesn’t think much about the weird stuff that is happening in Rome, how he said danger should fear him, how he enjoys having the attention, and also how he compares himself to the North star.

Caesar’s wife, Calpurnia, had a terrible dream one night that lead to become true the next day. In her dream she saw that her husband was killed and his blood, “Which drizzled upon the Capitol” 3.2.21 . Before telling her husband of her offal dream she overheard from a guard that there was a “Lioness that had given birth in the streets, and graves have yawned, and yielded up from their dead,” 3.1.17 . Then she goes and tells her husband about her dream and what the guards have said. She says it is best you stay home to day for I am scared.

The Soothsayer tells him “Beware the Ides of March”, 1.2.13 , but Caesar doesn’t pay attention to him. Like in the first paragraph we talked about the weird stuff that was happening and Calpurnia’s dream. But there is also one more thing that could have saved his life if he had just listened to Artemidorus. Artemidorus found out all the people that wanted to kill him, conspirators, and wrote them down on a piece of paper, and tried to make Caesar read it so he would know to watch out for those people, but Caesar didn’t read. He said he didn’t want to read it if had anything to do with him, for Rome was more important to