Solo/Duet Acting

During this scene in the play, Calpurnia is trying to convince Caesar not to leave the house to go to the Senate. The night before, Calpurnia had a dream that Caesar's statue was spouting blood and happy Romans were bathing in it. Calpurnia saw this as a bad omen, and she was right. But Caesar would not stay home until Calpurnia begged him on her knees I believe that this passage is very significant because it is one of Caesars last warnings before he is killed. It is one of his last chances to save himself before he is murdered. This scene also builds the suspense to Caesar putting his life in danger to go to the Capitol.

Act II, Scene 2, lines 8-37
Calpurnia- What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth?
You shall not stir out of your house today?

Caesar- Caesar shall walk forth. The things that threaten'd me
Ne'er look but on my back; when they shall see
The face of Caesar, they are vanished.

Calpurnia- Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
A lioness hath whelped in the streets,
And graves have yawn’d and yielded up their dead;
Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds
In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;
The noise of battle hurtled in the air,
Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
O Caesar, these things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.

Caesar- What can be avoided
Whose end is purpos’d by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.

Calpurnia- When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavans themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Caesar- Cowards die many tiems before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.