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Answer 1

Answer:

·  Caesar wanders through his house in his dressing gown, kept awake by his wife Calpurnia’s nightmares.

·  Three times she has called out in her sleep about Caesar’s murder.

·   He sends a servant to bid the priests to offer a sacrifice and tell him the results.

·  Calpurnia enters and insists that Caesar not leave the house

·  Caesar rebuffs her, refusing to give in to fear.

·  But Calpurnia, who has never heeded omens before, speaks of what happened in the city earlier that night: dead men walked, ghosts wandered the city, a lioness gave birth in the street, a battle took place in the sky and blood has rained upon the capital, lightning shattered the skies.

·  These signs portend true danger, she says; Caesar cannot afford to ignore them.

·  Caesar counters that nothing can change the plans of the gods.

·  He deems the signs to apply to the world in general and refuses to believe that they bode ill for him personally.  

·  Calpurnia says that the heavens proclaim the death of only great men, so the omens must have to do with him.

·  Caesar replies that while cowards imagine their death frequently, thus dying in their minds several times over, brave men, refusing to dwell on death, die only once.

·   He cannot understand why men fear death, which must come eventually to all.

·  The servant enters, reporting that the priests recommend that Caesar stay home.

·  They examined the entrails of an animal and were unable to find a heart—a bad sign.

·  But Caesar maintains that he will not stay home out of fear.

·  Danger cannot affect Caesar, he says.

·  Calpurnia begs him to send Antony to the Senate in his place; finally Caesar relents.

·  Decius enters, saying that he has come to bring Caesar to the Senate.

·  Caesar tells him to tell the senators that he will be absent that day.

·  Calpurnia tells him to plead illness, but Caesar refuses to lie.

·  Decius then asks what reason he should offer. Caesar states that it is simply his will to stay home.

·   He adds that Calpurnia has had a dream in which she saw his statue run with blood like a fountain, while many smiling Romans bathed their hands in the blood; she has taken this to portend danger for Caesar

·  Decius disputes Calpurnia’s interpretation, saying that actually the dream signifies that Romans will all gain lifeblood from the strength of Caesar.

·   It was a vision fair and fortunate.

·  Caesar is a source of inspiration for the romans.

·  He confides that the Senate has decided to give Caesar the crown that day;

·  Bif Caesar were to stay at home, the senators might change their minds.

·  Moreover, Caesar would lose public regard if he were perceived as so easily swayed by a woman, or by fear.

·  Caesar replies that his fears now indeed seem small.

·  He calls for his robe and prepares to depart.

·  Cassius and Brutus enter with Ligarius, Metellus, Casca, Trebonius, Publius and Cinna to escort him to the Senate.