In the play Julius Caesar whether you’ve read it or watched it you can tell that Shakespeare has made fate one of the most important parts of the play e.g. One really important parts of the play is when the soothsayer says “Beware the ides of March!” This quotation portrays fate in the play. Throughout the play you will hear talk about fate pop-up when people are having a discussion. You will notice fate has a big part to play in Julius Caesar. In Julius Caesar fate is mostly portrayed as inevitable.

In act 5 scene 1 Cassius and Brutus are having a conversation just before they go to battle. When they are talking they refer to fate they are saying things like ” the gods today stand friendly, that we may, lovers in peace, lead on to our days to age!”. In this conversation Brutus says “The ides of March have begun.” He is saying they have begun and cannot be prevented. I think that the figurative language is connotation because Cassius is saying that god is associated with deciding your fate.

In the play Julius Caesar the characters refer to fate at many points. In act 3 scene 1 just before Caesar gets murdered there is figurative language when Caesar says “I’m as constant as the Northern star.” The type of figurative language that is used in this quote is a simile because he is using ‘as’ so he is comparing himself to the northern star. The northern star is important and stands out and Caesar is trying to say that he is as important as the northern star and that his fate is that he will remain that important.

My opinion of fate in the play Julius Caesar is that it is vital for the play, because quite a lot of the play revolves around fate. In the play, fate is used often but sometimes it might not be so clear because quite a lot of the time fate is portrayed in figurative language e.g. Similes, metaphors, personification, connotation and other forms of figurative language.

Fate is portrayed to be pre-determined. In the play characters can get punished for either believing in fate or not believing in fate. An example of a character being punished for not believing in fate is when Caesars wife tries to convince Caesar to not go to the senate because she had a dream that Caesar would get killed. Her dream was that a statue of Caesar had blood coming out of it and that people were bathing in but eventually Caesar ignored her dream which was a vision of Caesars fate and when Caesar got to the senate he was punished for not believing in fate by being killed by the conspirators. When Caesar says that he is as constant as the northern star he is saying that he is bigger than fate and is immovable and that Caesar thinks that fate cannot determine his future and that only he can control what he does and what happens to him.

What is being showed here is that if a character believes that he is bigger than fate and that he controls what his future is and what can happen is punished for believing that. The clear example of that was when Caesar said that he was as “Constant as the northern star.” He got punished for it.