Julius Caesar Decisions

Fate is something people do not like to mess with because fate backfires all the time. The similar thing happens in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare uses prophets, omens, and natural phenomenon to inform the audience and the character about the future, yet some characters ignore it and eventually meet their death. The whole play is based on fate; some characters are controlled by their fate, and some characters control their own fate, but some characters know their fate. Caesar and Brutus are controlled by their fate because of the poor decision they made in the past. Brutus made a decision to kill Caesar, but not to kill Antony without thinking about the future. Another decision made by Brutus that lead to disaster was to fight Antony’s army at Philippi. Caesar made a decision to go senate house on the Ides of March, even though he was warned by the Soothsayer. When the Soothsayer warns him he ignores it and says “He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass” (Wiggins DR-119 ). This state, that Caesar is ignorance and does not care about the warning, which is the second worst decision he will make. The worst decision he made was by ignoring the Artemidorus’s Letter, and his wife’s dream about blood coming out of his statue.

For example, the line “Caesar was ambitious” (Wiggins DR-177 ) in Antony’s speech came out of the Brutus’s speech when he was calling Caesar ambitious. He knows what to do to prevent the bad future. Another example is Antony’s decision of killing Lepidus brother and telling Octavius that Lepidus is unworthy for the triumvir. He continued to control his fate by killing its rivals and securing it future. Sometimes the fate was with him; for example, Brutus’s decision of going to Philippi to battle Rome was a fate because Brutus and his army had a better position of