Calpurnia's dream (Bad Omens) 2/2

Decius enters the house: "My lord! How are you today?  I hope you are well because I have some to escort you to the capital because I hear they have something to present to you.  And a great man like you can only be receiving one thing, am I right?  The crown! Isn't this a wonderful day to be given such a honor?"
    Caesar: "Yes my dear Decius it really is but I'm afraid I'll be staying in today.  My wife had a bad dream and is afraid that something bad will happen to me.  In her dream the streets ran with my blood and the people dipped their hands in it and celebrated my death.  To add to that, there has been a lot of weird things going on lately and my wife just doesn't want to risk anything."
   Decius: "Well pardon me but I think the interpretation is all wrong!  I think that the dream was not praising Caesar's death but that the people of Rome wanted to touch him so badly and have a part of him that they dipped their hands in his blood."
    Caesar: "I do like the sound of that!  It sounds much more reasonable and plausible.  How I thought for just one moment that the good people of Rome would want me dead I don't know.  I will go with you Decius."
(After Caesar and Decius leave)
    Calpurnia: "Oh my dear husband.  I thought that you could at least listen to me for one moment and heed my warning.  I don't ask much but why, of all the times you could have gone and acted like what I said didn't matter, did you choose now?  May the gods be with you wherever you go."

Calpurnia's Dream (Bad Omens) 1/2

(This is what Calpurnia might have been thinking when she had the dream about Caesar)
 
    In the night:  "Help! Help! Someone please help! the streets are filled with evil spirits and signs of my husbands death! His statue runs of his blood and the people of Rome have come to dip their hands in it and praise all through the streets that Caesar is dead! Oh help, someone please help!"
    The next morning: "Oh Caesar my lord! I beg of you! Last night I had a horrifying dream.  I dreamed of the people of Rome running through the street with your blood on their hands!  They were celebrating your death and causing chaos as they went.  And you know I don't believe in bad omens but today is not the day to go out.  My dear husband please for my sake stay in today, what will it hurt?  One day in the house wont hurt but if you go out something bad is bound to happen."
    Caesar: "My dear wife, what is the meaning of all this?  What makes you think that such things will happen?  Everyone has bad dreams once in a while, I'm sure this is nothing different.  And it was just a little rain, the gods should not punish me, of all people, for the weather."
   Calpurnia: "Please, I know it may have just been a bad dream, but for my sake and my nerves, please stay in today.  Do not go out and have the fate to know what might awaits you.  You could tell them you were sick or that I asked you to stay or anything, just please stay."
    Caesar: "Fine my wife you have convinced me to stay.  I will not tell them I am sick because that is a lie but for you're sake I will stay."

Bad Omens

    On the night before Caesar's death there were a lot of bad omens or bad signs.  Back in that time before the explanation of science they believed that a thunderstorm was sent from the gods and that any weird behavior was a sign sent to them from above.  Some of the bad omens that appeared the night of Calpurnia's dreams were the thunderstorm, a lioness gave birth in the streets and the dead cried from their graves.  All of these, plus Calpurnia's dream of Caesar's statue gushingg with blood and the people of Rome coming to dip their hands in it, warned her that something was wrong.  Calpurnia was not a person to believe in bad omens or superstition, so when Caesar did not take his wife's advice when she told him not to go out, was not a wise decision.  But in the next lines it is plan to see why he ignored her.  Decius comes to the house of Caesar and tells Caesar that the interpretation his wife has given him about the dream is all wrong and that the people would not want to harm Caesar but that they want to dip their hands in his blood so that they may have his mighty blood on there servant hands.  Caesar then falls for this interpretation and regrets that he even for a second yielded to Calpurnia's warning.  Caesar does end up going out to the capital and is killed by the conspirators including Brutus, Decius, Cassious, Cinna and Metellus.  Caesar never saw his wife again.

Day of Games (Calpurnia's View)

(This is my view of what I think Calpurnia might have been thinking the day of the games - view last post for more info on the games)

Calpurnia: I don't want to get out of bed today, I like to see the games but I can bear no children and I know that Caesar is going to ask Antony to run by and strike me with his thong which is embarrassing and also quite painful. Does everyone really have to know that I can't have kids? Its very sad to me in the first place and having everyone know and wonder about it only makes it worse.  But who knows? Maybe it will work, this whole thong thing, and I'll bear Caesar a son. Then, I could be happy.  To know that my lord will have an heir and to have a child all of my own.  Then, only then, can I be truly happy to go out in public and be proud of who I am.

Lupercalia (The games)

    Calpurnia was the wife of Julius Caesar, who lived around 100 B.C. She was his third wife and they were married in 59 B.C. Calpurnia was a beautiful woman and the daughter of Piso Caesonius. In Act I scene II of Julius Caesar, it tells us that Calpurnia is unable to have children. Caesar tells Antony that when he runs in the Lupercalia (games), to not focus on speed but to touch Calpurnia with his holy chase. (As part of the festival the men ran naked through the streets of Rome, striking bystanders with a leather thong. It was said that if a woman that could not have children was struck by this thong, she would become fertile.) She never did have children but she was a faithful wife that always looked after Caesar.