In Shakespeare's Julias Ceaser what were the signs of Ceasers death. Or just the act and scene.?

Question

I haven't read the play in years but I seem to recall that there were strange phenominons reported either after his death or on it's eve. I just wondered what Act and scene these are described in. Or just let me know if my memory has mixed this play up with another.

Answer 1

people reported seeing men walk in the streets while on fire on the eve of Caesar's death. other examples were a lion gave birth in the streets, a meteor shower occurred, and a slave had a hand set on fire that did not burn. I believe they are mentioned in Act II, Scene 2 when Calpurnia urged Caesar not to go to the Capital.

Answer 2

Have a look at Act I, scene iii; it's the dialogue between Casca and Cicero.

This is PRIOR to Caesar's death, but it a classic Shakespearean example of the manner in which the NATURAL world reflects the state of events in the mortal world. The conspirators have determined on their bloody course of action, and nature is in a complete state of revolt.

Here's the exchange:

CASCA
Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth
Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,
I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds
Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen
The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,
To be exalted with the threatening clouds:
But never till to-night, never till now,
Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
Either there is a civil strife in heaven,
Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,
Incenses them to send destruction.

CICERO
Why, saw you any thing more wonderful?

CASCA
A common slave--you know him well by sight--
Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn
Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand,
Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd.
Besides--I ha' not since put up my sword--
Against the Capitol I met a lion,
Who glared upon me, and went surly by,
Without annoying me: and there were drawn
Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,
Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw
Men all in fire walk up and down the streets.
And yesterday the bird of night did sit
Even at noon-day upon the market-place,
Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say
'These are their reasons; they are natural;'
For, I believe, they are portentous things
Unto the climate that they point upon.

Answer 3

The classic one is the description of 'beware the Ides of March'. But the most obvious sign of his death is the bloody dagger. That usually gives it away.