For our Julius Caesar unit, we have to do a performance about one of the significant acts in the play. I have chosen to do a duet with Lara and we will be doing Act 2 Scene 2 lines: 58 - 105.
Lara: Decius
Shaz: Caesar
CONTEXT:
In the passage we have just chosen, Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, has just told Caesar about the terrifying dream she had just had about him going to the capitol and is begging him not to go. But once he is persuaded, Decius comes along and twists her dream around to flatter him into going to the capitol.
This is a significant passage because, it's leading up to Caesar's death. It shows the conspirators determination to have their plan go all as planned and get him to the Senate House. And by doing that it exposes the two sides of Caesar; Private and Public. In public he portrays himself as this Hubris person, who isn't afraid of anything and says that danger should fear him, but when it comes to his private self, he is shown as this character who is gullible and falls for flattery and who is slightly afraid. He is also characterizes as vulnerable because he is praised by Decius's interpretation of the dream. As well in the passage we have chosen, it brings out the imagery of blood. Symbolizing life and death. It also portrays the theme of Fate vs. Freewill. Fate and death being Calpurnia's dream and Freewill and life being Decius's interpretation.
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