Source # 27: Plutarch

This passage proves that Caesar is not at all afraid of dying and if he is, he does not want to show it. The way that he did not want a bodyguard is very valiant and he seems to feel safe from anything. I do not think that Caesar is blind to what people what to do to him, but I think that he did not want to always live in fear. The final line in this passage says that Caesar would rather die not knowing about it than die fearing death. He did not live everyday worrying about what was going to happen to him, but rather he lived not in fear of the fact that people wanted to backstab him. The way that Caesar seems to trust Brutus and Cassius points to the idea that he was oblivious and did not know what was going on. Caesar does not seem to worry about anything that is going to happen to him and has the philosophy that if something is going to happen to him than it will happen. Of all the people that Caesar talks to and likes, it seems like Brutus is the last one that he feels would try and harm him. Brutus appears to be so kind and honest with Caesar that the thought would never cross Caesar’s mind. When all of these people betray Caesar, Brutus is the one that is called upon by Caesar to see how he feels. It was obvious that Caesar could not believe what Brutus was doing to him.