Due to this flaw, it was fate that Caesar would succumb to this and die because his judgement was clouded. Calpurnia uses foreshadowing in her argument, for she talks of omens, but neither Calpurnia nor Caesar knew that her dream was a telling of his fate. This made Decius’ argument seem more realistic, for Calpurnia’s foreshadowing is more abstract while Decius’ claims that the council would look down upon him would seem more sensible. It’s easy to believe that someone is cowardly if they do not show up to an important event due to the possibility of danger, but it’s hard to grasp something that is not set in stone. The dramatic irony would be that Decius is a conspirator and is plotting Caesar's assassination, that was known to the audience yet unknown to the all characters except Decius
Caesar is not impressed with Calpurnia who is wanting him not to be present at the senate. After telling Caesar her dream, she says Caesar attending the senate is “my fear” (II, 2, 30). Calpurnia aims again to convinces Caesar; her technique partly works. Desperate Calpurnia kneels and begs for Caesar not to leave the house. She is using the credibility of herself, ethos; she appoints herself into the situation because Caesar views Calpurnia as a wise, caring person.
Leaders derive their power from a range of sources – military force, wealth, rank. However, leaders that we most admire win followers through the skill of persuasion. The ability of a speaker to persuade his listeners to agree with him signals that he is a powerful and astute figure. In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the character of Cassius attempts to convince Brutus that Caesar should be assassinated. Brutus, however, cares deeply for Caesar and is hesitant to kill the beloved hero of Rome.
While Calpurnia relies more on superstition and signs from the gods to support her assertion, Decius relies on the knowledge that the crown appeals more to Caesar than message from the gods and focuses on a logical argument. Calpurnia states that the reason for her concern is that Caesar’s life may be in danger however this has little appeal to Caesar who does not fear death and knows that his fate lies beyond his hands as seen when he states that ‘Seeing that death, a necessary end/Will come when it will come’ (Shakespeare. II.ii.26-27). Decius, on the other hand, is well aware that Caesar is consumed in his confidence and believes himself to be untouchable. Playing on this Decius re-envisions the dream to make it seem as though Caesar has revived Rome.
Calpurnia’s statement relies on the supernatural events in order to convince Caesar by presenting multiple supernatural sightings at once.
The murdering conspirators who violently slayed the beloved Julius Caesar are being cheered on by all of Rome, all through the clever use of rhetoric. The only logical choice Antony has before him is to fight fire with fire, and convince the crowd that he’s right, and not Brutus or his followers. Antony goes up to speak the truth about his feelings for Julius Caesar, and persuade the crowd to follow him to rise against the conspirators, without being direct. So he stands in front of the crowd and begins to earn the crowd’s trust, with ethos, demonstrate his intelligence, with logos, and pull the crowd to his side, with pathos. Without credibility, a speaker can’t truly be convincing.
To convince Caesar to come to the Senate, Decius Brutus manipulates Calphurnia’s dream of “statues spilling blood” into a dream foretelling Rome’s “reviv[al]” (Shakespeare 2.2.90). Decius uses graphic imagery to appeal to Caesar’s value of manhood, using Caesar’s lack of fear and his prideful nature against
Worried that the crowd had been completely convinced by Brutus’s words, Antony had to persuade them to be on his side, so he began his speech by appealing to their emotions or pathos. He begins his speech by calling them “Friends, Romans, Countrymen”. Being classified as his friends, Romans, and countrymen is a compliment to most people, and appeals to their emotions by feeling as if you have a strong bond with one another. By showing them that he has a bond with them, he is showing them he is not there to change their mind, but instead to talk to them as the “friends” that they are. Later, he uses empathy by telling the crowd, “You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;”.
“Antony thinks of himself to be wise, but Brutus knows himself to be a fool.” once said by William Shakespeare. Antony thinks of himself to be wise, but Brutus knows himself to be a fool. Caesar gets stabbed by the conspirators and his friend Brutus. Antony is really angry for what they did to Caesar by killing him for Brutus think he will be king.
Decius was more effective concinving Caesar than Calpurniabecause of his use of strong pathos.. Calpurnia tries to keep Caesar from going to the senate by telling him a very detailed description of a dream she had. Calpurnia uses ethos to give herself some credibility to why
Because Caesar has a sense of authority over Calpurnia, she, in turn, has to obey him. When ultimately deciding to go to the Capitol, Caesar says, “How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia! I am ashamed I did yield to them” (67). He is ashamed that he let Calpurnia persuade him into staying home. In his mind, he should never follow her, and she should always obey him.
However they have another link that makes them similar in character which is their weakness to the women they love. In the words of Emma Smith they are "two-dimensional" . This symbolises the fact that these characters adopt a different stance of opinion, belief and more importantly action according to whom they are surrounded by. These attitudes, namely the public and private selves, can be noticed both in Caesar and Brutus when they appear to be more submissive towards their wives. For example in Act II Scene 2 upon hearing about Calpurnia’s dream of his murder Caesar decides that “for [her] humour [he] will stay home.
Imagine what would happen to the entire world if everybody believes in Superstition. In Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, Caesar was killed by the Roman conspirators on March 15, which was the “Ides of March”, historically in the play. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses Superstition to make it like a horror movie. Some people say that Shakespeare did not embellish the Superstition of the characters, but he just wrote about what happened. For example, Cumberland Clark says, “A tragedy dealing with the conflict between monarchical and democratic parties in the political world of Rome may seem a somewhat unpromising stage on which to introduce the Supernatural.
She wakes up three times from nightmares portraying Caesar's death. Like Casca, she sees a lion in the streets, except it is giving birth. She also claims that "graves have yawned, and yielded up their dead"(812). She dreams of fire falling from the sky, like Casca. Another strong omen is when Calphurnia dreams of blood running down the wall of the Capitol.
Caesar’s scornful behavior towards the soothsayer illustrates his arrogance. Later, in Act 2, Calpurnia pleads Caesar to stay home because she realizes that all the omens are pointing to Caesar’s death. Despite her plea, Caesar insists “Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten’d me ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see the face of Caesar, they are vanished” (2.2.15-17). These incidents show that Caesar’s pride blinds his ability to see his tragic end. Moreover, Caesar ignores his own feeling of uneasiness towards Cassius for the sake of his pride.
