William Shakespeare shows the word fate in Julius Caesar. The word Fate in means that your time has come, your Future, wrong place at the wrong time or wrong place at the right time or that your future has been written.
In the play Julius Caesar, Cassius shows fate. Cassius show fate before his death. Cassius was scared because on the day Cassius’s army went to war against Anthony it was his 30th birthday. Cassius shows fate because before his death he was thinking that he was going to die. Then he committed suicide. He ran in to the blade what Trebonius was old because he was forced to hold it by Cassius. Then Trebonius ran away. That caused the death of Messala because Messala cared, love, honoured him so he stabbed himself. I think that Cassius cheated fate because he could have ran away or his team could have defeated Anthony. So I think that Cassius cheated fate and he was a coward.
There is also fate in Julius Caesar when the ghost in the play says beware of “The ides of March” a lot of times in the play. I think that the ghost says the ides of March because there is goes to be danger in the play. This is also Dramatic Irony because only the Audience can only hear and see the ghost and the characters cannot hear him or see him. The ghost says the ides of March three times before Caesar death and a lot of times before Messala, Cassius and Brutus death.
Brutus shows fate in the play when he sees Cassius and Messala dead body. I think that Brutus fate comes to him and was the time to die because Anthony’s army was surrounding Brutus and he had nowhere to go. Plus Anthony was going to kill him, so he committed suicide. He force Lucius to hold the blade and then Brutus ran into the blade then he died.
The last person to show fate is Caesar’s wife Calpurnia. When she fell away the day before Caesar death she shows fate. It shows that Caesar was dying from the stab wounds. That is fate because in her dream the future was written for her and Caesar.
January 26, 2015 at 8:27 am
Hello,
This is a fairly well developed first draft. You have shown some understanding of the theme of fate and linked this to characters and events in the play.
Targets:
1) Look at your first two paragraphs – how you combine these two without repeating yourself and aiming to be more formal?
2) Look at this sentence ‘In the play Julius Caesar, Cassius shows fate.’ – please clarify this – what do you mean? Perhaps you might want to explore putting verbs into this sentence – for instance, does he fear fate? embrace?
3) Aim to use a quotation in each paragraph – Identify and explore the effect of figurative language devices in each of your chosen quotations