Julius Caesar Supernatural Analysis

Shakespeare’s depiction of supernatural contributes to the drama of the play; the supernatural elements in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar are very significant because they impress upon the Elizabethan, who believed in witchcraft and supernatural events. Similarly most Romans also believed in the reality of such supernatural events. The Romans were portrayed as they truly believed in the Roman gods, and any supernatural events were implied as god talking to them, or warning them. Shakespeare uses supernatural to impact the drama of the play, in the beginning of the play, soothsayer informs Caesar that he should “Beware the ides of March” the Ides of March is known as the 15th of March which was the day that Caesar was assassinated. The soothsayer is an important character since, nobody knew about him, and he tries to warn Caesar multiple times but Julius Caesar ignored him. From this we can imply that Shakespeare revealed Caesar’s personality to the audience as arrogance and self-confident. Furthermore Julius
Caesar, describing his distrust of Cassius “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look”, Such a man, Caesar fears, will let nothing interfere with his ambition. With the help of the weather, we now see the private self of Cassius, with all of this hatred towards Caesar “and Cassius is/A wretched creature and must bend his body/If Caesar carelessly but nod on him”
Shakespeare also presents the use of supernatural in Act 2 Scene 2, when Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, foresaw in her dream the assassination of Julius Caesar, she saw in her dream the statue of Julius Caesar being transformed into a fountain from which spouted not water, but blood and the Roman citizens smilingly washing their hands in his blood. This is another significant supernatural presented in the play by