Fate+vs.+Choice+in+Julius+Caesar

In //Julius Caesar//, William Shakespeare brings up the theme of Fate vs. Choice throughtout the novel. This theme is apparent in the character of Julius Caesar. Caesar is handed his fate when a soothsayer, or a fortunteller, tells him to beware the Ides of March. Caesar sends him away and thinks nothing of it. Julius Caesar made a choice to follow his fate of death again when his own wife, Calpurnia, tells him to not leave the house. Instead, Caesar ignores her. The finally choice that Caesar makes is to not listen to Artemidorus, who knows all about the conspiracy. Caesar ends up dead because he did not make the choice to change his fate.

By making the decision to give Caesar opprutunities, Shakespeare wants the reader to realize that we have freedom against fate. A line from the play illustrates this idea:

//It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a neccessary end Will come when it will come.

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