Julius Caesar

It was interesting that Shakespeare decided to write a play about Julius Caesar when everybody knows that he will be stabbed on his back by the one person he trusted most. As we discussed in class, Shakespeare was not interested, nor focused on the obvious, if one knows Roman history. Shakespeare decided to focus on what happened behind the scenes, Shakespeare is not making Caesar the star of his play.

In the first Act we can observe that Cassius is not a person to trust, and Caesar also pointed that out. Caesar believes Cassius is not a person that should be trusted because he looks like a hungry man and that is bad omen. Cassius seems to be manipulating everyone he can with an evil objective. Cassius says: " The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." (Act I.ii.142-43) this can be interpreted as that even though Caesar is the most desirable chosen Roman leader Cassius is saying that that could be changed if others really wanted that to happen.

Even though Caesar was able to see Cassius's omen he lacked to see what the Soothsayer was trying to tell him and instead Caesar disregarded him and moved on.

There is no doubt that after Caesar having declined the crown three times can be seen as an ambitious characteristic of his.

There is of course, much to talk about the unnatural events that are happening at the moment. For example, the night bird being up at noon, and the omens about a lion being the capitol as Casca was telling Cicero. Can this all mean that perhaps Julius Caesar is to change things for the good the their people?