: About Me

In his play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare hints at Caesar's imminent death via three very useful literary devices. Act II, takes place on March 15 just hours before Caesar's death. A death prognosticated through foreshadowing, asides, and imagery. Consequently, this act abounds with events, while directly related to, are irrespective of Caesar. It opens with a look at Brutus, the voice of reason among a group of conspirators bent on preemptive regicide. Already, readers can expect fate to have rendered Caesar powerless as Brutus' soliloquies prepare them for a Messianic trajectory, i.e. Caesa...