Omen In Julius Caesar Research Paper

An omen is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future. Though the word "omen" is usually devoid of reference to the change's nature, hence being possibly either "good" or "bad". In the play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare knew how to tie in omens to the play without giving what is going to happen away. Shakespeare uses omens and how he shows the importance of destiny. Along with this main omen there are some others that he puts in his play to show what might happen in the future. There were many omens in this play that lead to bad things including ides of March, ghosts, and strange behavior of animals. The "Ides of March" refers to March 15, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated by the Roman conspirators. The term first appears in Julius Caesar when a soothsayer approaches Caesar and warns him to "beware the Ides of March"(JC 1.2.18), which Caesar dismisses as meaningless. This omen is just to show that Shakespeare uses omens and how he shows the importance of destiny. If Caesar were to listen to the soothsayer he would have been alive or may have been more careful about what he was doing …show more content…
There were many omens in this play that lead to bad things including ides of March, ghosts, and strange behavior of animals. These omens show the importance of destiny. These are some of the main omens that cause many bad things. The ides of March caused Caesar to die because he did not listen to the soothsayer, he would have lived. The ghost that Brutus saw told Brutus he is going to see him again and that he is going to die. If Brutus would just simply calm down and not kill himself he could have stayed alive. The strange behavior of animals shower many things including two eagles falling and lions doing many things lions usually don't do. These show how omens can work, the affects of what could happen, and how they can increase tension in the