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During the course of the play, characters die in different ways for different reasons. Show how Shakespeare makes any four of the deaths interesting.
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During the course of the play, characters die in different ways for different reasons. Show how Shakespeare makes any three of the deaths interesting. "Julius Caesar" being a historical tragedy, death is pre-eminent. Caesar's death is a focal point of the plot around which revolved the death of Brutus, Cassius, Cinna the poet and Portia's death. JULIUS CAESAR Caesar's death is aided by supernatural portents. Prior to his death, there is thunder and lightning "all the sway of earth shakes, like a thing unfirm", "a tempest dropping fire", and Calpurnia's dream which foretold Caesar's death. All this created an eerie climax, since his was the only death foretold by a premonition. The reader is left to wonder after the warnings from the soothsayer "Beware the Ides of March!" and Artemidorus "Caesar, beware of Brutus, take heed of Cassius...There is but one mind in all these men, and it is...
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