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Foreshadowing in Julius Caesar

"Ghosts of the Past"

"Crazy Weather"

One of the most broad uses of foreshadowing is seen when the ghost of Caesar visits Brutus and gives Brutus an ominous warning

In Julius Caesar, like most of Shakespeare's plays, plays an offside role in setting the mood. However it also foreshadows in many ways that something is coming. This is seen by the constant storms, meteor showers, and other strange weather patterns that plague Rome for the length of this play

GHOST

Thy evil spirit, Brutus.

BRUTUS

Why comest thou?

GHOST

To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi

Strange Occurences

To add to all of this is the strange night during the meteor shower. During this several citizens experience a multitude of bizarre happenings. These range from dead bodies piling the streets, to lions roaming around peacefully, to men being lit on fire. It was as if the gods themselves were telling the conspirators to stop what they were doing

Beware the ides of March.

"Telling the Future"

In Julius Caesar, Caesar is warned several times before his demise that something bad will happen to him when he goes to the Capitol once from a soothsayer once by his own wife Calphurnia, and once by Artemidorus. Even his servant told him it would not be wise

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 whelpèd in the streets, And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead.

“Caesar, beware of Brutus. Take heed of Cassius. Come not near Casca. Have an eye to Cinna. Trust not Trebonius. Mark well Metellus Cimber. Decius Brutus loves thee not. Thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal, look about you. Security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee!

They would not have you to stir forth today.

Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,

They could not find a heart within the beast.

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