Julius Caesar Fate Vs Free Will Essay

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Throughout the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare both fate and free will is demonstrated. Cassius argued that everyone has the power to change their future in what they do when Casca came to him frightened by omens. Though, omens have seemed to prove correct throughout the play, therefore it dominates the argument of Fate versus Free Will.
All major events had an omen foreshadowing it. The first five were seen by Casca throughout the day. He saw the common slave whose left hand was on fire but was unharmed, which represented the Plebeians gaining power; a lion strolling past the Capitol, which represented Caesar ignoring the Senate and wanting to take full power like a dictatorship; people on fire in the streets, which
The slave with his left hand on fire foreshadowed the rising of the Plebeians under the power of Marc Antony. The lion strolling past the Capitol foreshadowed how Caesar planned to take over as dictator of Rome. The people on fire in the streets foreshadowed the rioting of the Plebeians when Marc Antony fired them up with his speech at Caesar’s funeral. The owl appearing at noon foreshadowed the death of Caesar. The lioness giving birth in the street foreshadowed the birth of caesars of Rome after him for years, starting with his nephew Octavius, and the tzars of Russia when they wanted to become the next Roman Empire. Calpurnia’s dream predicted Caesar’s death well, after being stabbed by all of his friends and bleeding to death, the men that killed him bathed in his blood happily thinking Rome will be safe. The omen of Caesar’s ghost visiting Brutus represented Brutus’s death. Caesar said “I will see you in Philippi,” meaning he will see Brutus at the place of the battle and watch him die, which he did.
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar had the ongoing theme of Fate versus Free Will, but it seemed that fate was mostly shown. Many of the omens proved true and showed that no matter how hard a character tried to take their own path, fate would take control. Thus proving fate is stronger than free will in this

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