In Shakespeare's “Julius Caesar”, the public and private self is a recurring theme. Throughout the play, the characters tend to consider their public personalities more important than their private personalities. All the characters think they know what's best for Rome, but in the end they only put themselves on the path that leads directly to death. The opera begins with a feast celebrating Caesar's victory over Pompey, where a soothsayer warns Caesar to "beware of the ides of 1.2.25 March", but Caesar shows no fear and rejects the soothsayer, saying: "he is a dreamer . Let's leave him. 1.2.26” Caesar's ego is too big and in the end his ego leads him to death. Instead of taking into consideration what the fortune teller says, he ignores his warning because “Caesar is more dangerous than him ( danger). BECAUSE it is the Ides of March. Overall, this foreshadows the coming events of the play but also describes how the m...