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In the drama & # 8220 ; Julius Caesar & # 8221 ; by William Shakespeare, adult females play an of import function. The adult females are of import factors in boding and in the development of many of the characters. To look at the function of adult females in the drama we must look deeper in to the functions of the lone two adult females in the drama ; Calpurnia, married woman of Caesar, and Portia, married woman of Brutus. Both of these adult females are cardinal in boding the slaying of Caesar. After Caesar & # 8217 ; s slaying we do non hear much of either of them.

The chief thing Caesar & # 8217 ; s married woman, Calpurnia does in the drama is tell Caesar to remain at place on the twenty-four hours of his slaying because of many unnatural events that have taken topographic point the dark earlier and because she has had incubuss about his blackwash. On the forenoon of the ides of March is the first clip we meet Calpurnia, her entryway is act 2 scene one when she tells Caesar & # 8220 ; You shall non stir out of your house today. & # 8221 ; Caesar decides he shall & # 8220 ; Forth & # 8221 ; until Calpurnia tells him why he shouldn & # 8217 ; t travel to the capitol today. Some of the grounds she included were:

? A lioness & # 8220 ; whelped & # 8221 ; in the streets.

? Graves opened and showed their dead people.

? Warriors of fire fought on the clouds and drizzled blood upon the capitol.

? Horses neighed and dead work forces groaned.

? Ghosts shrieked in the streets.

She than showed her uncomfortableness with these things by stating & # 8221 ; O Caesar, these things are beyond all usage, / and I do fear them. & # 8221 ; Caesar says these are merely every bit much to him as to the universe in general, but Calpurnia insists that when mendicants die nil happens, but when princes die the celestial spheres are aflame. Caesar says that cowards die many times before their decease and decease will come when it will come. Then Caesar asked a servant what the augurers say about the topic and they say they found no bosom within the animal. This is a simple act of demoing how superstitious Caesar is sends him in to a fury and he decides he will travel to the capitol. Then Calpurnia ( the voice of ground ) says & # 8220 ; your wisdom is consumed in assurance & # 8221 ; and tells him to state them it is her fright and non his ain that keeps him from the capitol. And Caesar grudgingly agrees. Then Decius Brutus comes in and ruins the whole thing by stating Caesar that her dream was stating how great he is and Decius manages to blandish Caesar plenty that he decides to travel

to the capitol and he tells Calpurnia how foolish her dreams seem now and he leaves. Calpurnia, as we know was right the whole clip and Caesar gets assassinated at the capitol. This scene was of import in boding Caesar’s decease and demoing how cocksure Caesar is, and although Calpurnia’s warning was merely one of many she seems to be the lone warning with existent impact, that is until Decius Brutus comes in to play.

Portia, married woman of Brutus has he her first visual aspect in act 2 scene 1, when she awakens to happen Brutus really stressed out. She asked why and he said he is ill, she tells him that being outside will merely do it worse. She tells him how concerned she is with his ways and kneels and tells him how faithful she had been. He tells he & # 8220 ; kneel non soft Portia. & # 8221 ; And she replies, & # 8220 ; I should non kneel if you were soft Brutus & # 8221 ; than she tells him that he should state hr his problems because she is his married woman. She shows how

strong willed she is by reminding him of how she stabbed herself in the leg and she says & # 8220 ; can I bear that with forbearance / and non my hubby & # 8217 ; s secrets? & # 8221 ; Brutus says & # 8220 ; o ye Gods / render me worthy of this baronial married woman! & # 8221 ; Then he promises to state her later on because person knocks at the door.

Then, in scene 4 of act 2 Portia sends Lucius to the senate to see how Brutus is making, she is really nervous and she tells Lucius to merely state him she is good and see what he says in return. Then she meets the forecaster and asks him about Caesar and if anything is planned against him and the forecaster says yes but he doesn & # 8217 ; t cognize what. She gets really

agitated and says & # 8220 ; ay how weak a thing / the bosom of a adult female is!

That is the last we hear of Portia until act 4 scene 3, when Brutus tells Cassius that Portia has killed herself by & # 8220 ; get downing fire. & # 8221 ; He tells Cassius that & # 8220 ; no adult male bears better sorrow. & # 8221 ; It is in this manner that Portia develops Brutus & # 8217 ; character, Foreshadows the Assassination, and Shows the badness of the consequences of the blackwash.

Both of these two adult females show strong character and if they had been sucessful in converting their husbnds non to travel to the capitol that twenty-four hours there would be no narrative to state. Without the adult females we would non acquire to cognize the chief characters and their grounds for making what they did. But they were non successful and that is merely another turn in this tragic narrative.