Fate in Julius Caesar and Ozymandias are presented very differently.

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, fate is presented in a sly way. When you try to go ahead, he keeps you guessing and drags it out just long enough to build up the intensity. For example, When Caesar death was approaching. We knew that it was going to happen because all the conspirators were planning it and Omens kept on happening like when the thunder and lightning occurred or when there was a lioness that was pregnant on the streets. When one of the conspirators came to Caesar’s home We ,the Audience, knew that it was finally going to happen but when Caesar’s wife came and told him about the Omens and he didn’t want to go We ,The Audience, started to think that he may not die yet but when decision Brutes convinced Caesar to go,that made the tension rise once again. So by doing that, Shakespeare kept the tension going and suddenly gain all the tensity back and make it more intriguing. Another example of this is when the civil war has already started and classics already knew that he was going to die. Once again We, the Audience, judge that by what he is saying. He will die but when Titinius goes and Pindarus tells cassius that Titinius was taken and finds out that the people might come for them, We (The Audience) think that because he knows that they’re coming he could think of a plan and escape but when he starts saying that he was a coward and tells Pindarus to kill him in order to become a free man , We (The Audience) think and remember that fate is unstoppable and that it was cassius’ fate to die.

Now I will talk about fate in shelley’s Ozymandias.

Fate in Shelley’s Ozymandias is a bit more harder to find than it is in Julius Caesar. In this, fate is presented to be unfair. what shows this is Ozymandias’ Statue of himself and the writing on it and what the traveller says after. It says “My name is Ozymandias, King of kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’ Nothing else remains”. From this I gathered that Ozymandias was the the of King who put himself above all others, made himself stand out and thought he was the ‘king of kings’. Also, from the fact that nothing else remains means that he probably thought that when he dies, he would want a statue and, most likely , made the statue out of the best materials available. He wasn’t a good king to his people. I think that he was a tyrant and his people hated ,or disliked, him strongly.