How is fate shown in julius Caesar and ozymandias

Fate with Caeser and Brutus

I don’t believe that fate is cruel unless you know your fate. This is because I would never want to live life knowing I’m going to get hit by a bus or get shot. It’s just cruel wondering whether today is going to be your last day i believe that would be a really bad life to live. It would be very scary to know how you will die because you will be afraid to do certain things because it might kill you.

In act 1 scene 2 the soothsayer appears and tells Caeser to ‘beware the ides of March’ and Caeser insults the soothsayer by saying ‘he is a dreamer,’. Also the soothsayer gives him a vague warning. He just says that Caeser should beware on the 15th of March but he doesn’t tell Caeser in detail. This is a vague warning and Caeser thinks he is a joke. I believe this is the wrong decision to make because the soothsayer is a messenger from God and he should of taken this seriously. This is fate because he can’t change what will happen on the 15th of March and that his destiny and his life can’t be changed. In the line ‘beware the ides of March’ Shakespeare uses dramatic irony here. I know this because we as an audience know what will happen and when but the characters don’t and this is dramatic irony. This is not the only time that he ignores the signs that he will die. He also ignores the sign when his wife was telling him that she saw bad omens that he will die and he said that he will not go and he will tell Decius to tell the conspirators that he is sick so he can’t make it. But then fate comes in and Decius convinces Caeser to go to the senate house and then Caeser went to the senate house. Caesars destiny was always going to die on the 15th of March and that he can’t change it at all. It was always going to happen and it did.

In act 3 scene 1 Caeser was killed. This is fate because in act 1 scene 1 Caeser was told that he should ‘beware the ides of March’ and je did try but fate stopped him and he was killed. There was no way to avoid his death because his destiny was always to die on that day and he was warned by the soothsayer but he couldn’t avoid it and he didn’t. I believe that your fate is determined when you are born and it can’t be changed. That is fate in julius Caeser. Just before caeser died he said to Brutus ‘et tu brute, then caeser shall fall’ this is in French and it means and you Brutus then caeser shall die. Shakespeare used dramatic irony in his play because it make the play so much more intresting and  creates more tension. An example of this is when we knew that Caesar will die but he didn’t and this causes so much tension.

In act five scene two, three all of the conspirators died and this is fate because when Brutus was in his camp near Sardis caesers ghost had appeared and he said  ‘To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi’ and I believe that this means that he will die and he will see dead Caeser at Philippi. When Cassius was in Philippi he thought that they were losing the battle and stabbed himself and just after he did a friend of his came to tell him that they are winning and he found him dead. After that he gave Cassius a crown and stabbed himself. A little later then Brutus was asking his friends to stab him but they all refused and he told them all to go and he will catch up to them. Then he saw strato sleeping on the floor he woke him up and told him to stab him and he did it. Just after that Antony and his team came and saw him dead they were all proud to see him dead. Antony was happy because he had avenged caesers death. Brutus was told very vaguely that he would die at Philippi and he knew that so he got strato to stab him because he didn’t want Antony to kill him.  This is fate because he wanted to avoid dying at Philippi but then he killed himself and he couldn’t avoid dying at Philippi but he couldn’t. He would of died either way so he chose to be killed by a friend of his and not a enemy. Caesers ghosts warning was very similar to the warning of the soothsayer when he told Caeser ‘beware the ides of March’. It is very similar because they were both vague warnings and they were told very similarly. Brutus knew what was going to happen in Philippi when the ghost spoke to him because it reminded him of what happened with Caeser in act three.