Topic > Julius Caesar Character Evaluation Essay - 968

He was not superstitious; he dismissed the soothsayer's warning “Beware of the ides of March” (1, 2, 18) as words spoken by a dreamer and not worth reflecting on. Caesar refused to believe the numerous omens that occurred in Rome and simply defined them as general signs that would affect everyone and not just him, even if the people next to him tried to convince him not to go to the Capitol on the Ides of March for fear that he might something bad happen to Caesar. Although Caesar was not superstitious, he was nevertheless, a defeatist man who believed that a man's fate was destined and could not be changed, tried to convince him not to go to the Capitol because he had dreamed that from his statue sprouted blood and the people of Rome bathed its hands in the water. blood with smiles on their faces. Calpurnia was quite distressed by this and hoped to prevent Caesar from walking straight towards what she saw as the hands that coldly called death. Caesar was not overly concerned about this, although he believed he was destined to die. nothing could stop it. What can be avoided whose end is foreseen by the mighty gods?" He said that the moment of dying is preordained by the gods and when that moment comes, the person will die no matter how he tries to avoid