’s death being foreshadowed was most definitely Calpurnia’s dream the night before Caesar is scheduled to go to the Senate. Caesar says “...she dreamt tonight she saw my statue, which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts, did run pure blood, and many lusty Romans came smiling and did bath their hands in it...”(341; act2, sc2). This very gruesome image is meant to hint at Caesar’s death.However, when Decius arrives at Caesar’s home, he tries to convince Caesar that he has misinterpreted the dream, and it is actually a good omen. Eventually, Caesar chooses to believe that the dream is a good sign after all. Farrow believes that “instead of being able to decipher the cryptic language of the supernatural prophesy running through the play, the characters either ignore it, or they construe the meanings ‘after their [own] fashion’” (Farrow). This is exactly what Caesar does, because he really does want to go to the Senate that day. Another major event that is foreshadowed in Julius Caesar is Brutus’s death at Phillipi. Caesar’s ghost pays a visit to Brutus in order to tell him “...thou shalt see me at Phillipi” (382; act4, sc3). The reader knows Caesar’s ghost came for this reason, because “ a ghost always had a mission when he came to earth-although it might vary considerably...others saw into the future and wanted to warn the living, and still others intended to punish a promise-breaker” (Papp). Superstition also played a major role in developing the main characters in the play. It’s use provided further insight into the characters, because of each person’s individual beliefs in superstition.For instance, Caesar himself only believes in the supernatural when it benefits him. At the Lupercal race, he asks Antony “forget not in your speed, Antonius, to touch Calpurnia; for our elders say the barren, touched in this holy c...
