Question

What opinion do you form of Calpurnia from the play ‘Julius Caesar’ ? 

Answer 1

Calpurnia plays a small but vital role in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. She is Caesar’s wife and plays a major role in only one scene. She is barren something that bothers Caeser likely caused her  great shame. She acquiesces nonetheless when Caeser asked her to stnad in Mark Anthony’s path during the Feast of Lupercal race which would make her fertile. She had a dream that she saw Caesar’s statue ‘Which like a fountain with an hundred spouts did run pure blood; and many  lusty Romans came smiling and did bathe their hands in it.’ She almost succeeded in getting Caesar to stay home on the Ides of March however her conspirators planned for this eventuality.