How does shakespeare present fate in juliuse ceasar?

I think fate is as if your whole life is set out and you don’t know what is going to happen until it happens, so for me if someone says they have chosen their fate I think that God has made it inevitable for them to do anything else and because of what happens in the play I think that Shakespeare belive in fate as well, because in the play there is a lot of reference to fate and trying to cheat it or escape it any way possible.

In the play Julius caesar ,I think characters try to cheat fate because they think that if they cheat fate they will be in a way invincible because they will choose when to die which by the end of the play we all know is not true.

They also talk a lot about fate in the last scene when many characters commit suicide because they think by killing themself they are cheating fate which the they think is being  killed by caesar, I also think that when brutes said “that a man might know. The end of days business ere it come!” I think that the man is caesar and when he was killed that was when the end of days truly began for all those who betrayed caesar.

However by killing caesar. I think the men in a way know that they will be killed by Caesars ghost so are willing to killing themself rather than go through the torture of not knowing when there time will come and how they will be killed by caesar and are thinking that they are cheating their fate which they think is being killed by caesar but I think that their true fate is killing them self before Caesars ghost even has to do anything.

I also think that the reason that brutes dies last is because Caesars ghost wanted him to see that because caesar was betrayed by men he trusted he would now get his revenge in any means necessary and I think that by brutes seeing his friends die around was even more painful that being killed himself.

 

 

1 Comment

  1. I think this is a fair second draft, but you are still not meeting one of the key parts of this assessment – identifying and exploring the use of figurative language. Why has Shakespeare used these devices and how have they helped to shape meanings?

    Targets:
    1) Use the classwork notes to help develop paragraphs that identify and explore figurative language. You can find them here:
    http://n9.teacher.edutronic.net/2015/02/06/julius-caesar-fate-essay-planning-iwb-notes/
    2) You should refer to events that happen across the play. With this in mind, it might be best to write about events in chronological order.

Give Feedback