Julius Caesar's Mistakes

“Caesar shall forth. The things that threaten’d me Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see the face of Caesar, They are vanished.” This quotation sets the scene and drives Caesar as being a fearless man who, much though he didn’t want to be influenced, felt threatened by this overpowering dream of Calpurnia’s. Thrice she had cried out in her sleep ‘Help, ho! They murder Caesar!’ Caesar’s motivating factors were his pompous and yet gullible approach and attitude towards handling any situation. He justifies his decision as being a fearless ruler.

Caesar was a pompous man because he thought he was more important than everyone around him, yet he was a gullible man because he fell in many traps set or said by other people, which didn’t do him good. “The gods do this in shame of cowardice: Caesar shall be a beast without a heart if he should stay at home today for fear.” There was a storm in Rome, and Caesar was awoken by Calpurnia’s dream. She had called out ‘Help, ho! They murder Caesar!’ three times. Which was then treated by the powerful words of Decius Brutus. Caesar thought of himself as a very unique, fearless and important being. He felt he was above all, even above danger if that’s what came in his path. He compared himself to a fierce lion, yet he was the most terrible of them. He feared no one at all.

But he was yet to believe in Decius’ effective words towards Caesar. “This dream is all amiss interpreted; It was a vision fair and fortunate… Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck Reviving blood, and that great men shall press For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance.” Caesar had told Decius that he would not go to the capitol because his wife feared his death, and then Caesar told Decius Calpurnia’s dream word by word. Caesar was cajoled and drawn to the compliments made so brilliantly and cunningly by Decius.

The main conflict of the play is that Caesar thought of himself as a unique person, but more importantly he thought he was very fierce in the things he did. Caesar thought of himself as an important person because he mostly cared about himself more than those people around him, but his gullible beliefs led him to make the wrong decisions that were important to his everyday life. Pompous and gullible led Caesar to behave in the wrong manners that didn’t do him well. Caesar’s goal was to become king; I think he did not complete his goal because he was assassinated when he was going to be crowned king of Rome. His goal to become king was worthy because he thought Rome needed a king and because he wanted to become king.