Julius Caesar Prophecy Analysis

Back in the times of ancient Rome, prophecy was a belief that the vast majority of people had. Gods and goddesses were thought to have controlled everything in the people’s lives from their money to children to weather. Prophecy itself is the act of predicting future events that eventually come true. The main use of prophecy in this play was the deaths of the play’s main characters. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, prophecy plays a major role in cryptically laying out the deaths of the play right in front of its audience

STORM

During Act I of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the storm that comes March 14th is used to prophesize the death of Julius Caesar that comes the next day, the ides of March. Shakespeare gives the reader many different

The eagles also represent Brutus and Cassius, two great men and warriors who have come far in their lives, until now. The day of the battle, when the great eagles are then replaced by the ravens, crows, and kites, those dark birds symbolize death and loss which Shakespeare uses to prophecies the suicide of Cassius and Brutus. Another animal Shakespeare uses a lot in his prophecy is the lion. Calpurnia sees the mother lion whelping in the street in her dream, and the lion Casca gets ignored by. Both of these lions, which represent Caesar, are acting unnaturally and Shakespeare meant for the lions to represent how Caesar was acting unnatural himself, with his fainting and seizures to his untimely death right before he becomes king. Cassius in the first act when trying to convince Brutus of joining the conspiracy, calls Caesar “the lion in the Capitol”(I.iii.76). Caesar even compares himself to danger by using the lion when Calpurnia begs him not to go out he firmly states “We are two lions littered in one day, And I the elder and more terrible, And Caesar shall go forth” (II.ii.48-50). The lion as the king of the jungle is quite the ferocious beast which makes sense to use Caesar as the lion, but the fact that Shakespeare uses the king of the jungle is a case of dramatic irony as Caesar never actually gets to be

Was told to Caesar days before he died and he chose not to listen, which resulted in his death. The soothsayer in the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar does not give this warning to Caesar only once, the soothsayer prophesied this twice.The omen, which would have saved Caesar’s life if he had listened to it, is brushed off as nothing by Caesar himself because he does not think any harm can come to him. Caesar throughout the play only believes the omens that are in his favor. When Antony is about to participate in the race, Caesar tells him to touch Calphurnia as he runs because “The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shake off their sterile curse”(I.ii.10-11). Now this superstition will not work on any woman it’s tried on because it’s medically impossible. Shakespeare puts this line in the play to indicate Caesar’s arrogance when it comes to his own harm. The ides of March, Caesar believes despite the countless warnings, will not harm him because he is the all powerful Caesar. This is Caesar’s tragic flaw in the play and it will lead to his early