William Shakespeare's three plays, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Othello, all contain the same basic premise within their plots, one being the supernatural. In Julius Caesar, the ghost of Caesar appears in front of Brutus, strange occurances happen at night, and Calpurnia has an extraordinary dream about Caesar. In Hamlet, the play in its entirety truly begins once King Hamlet's ghost appears and commands his son to avenge the wrongful death of the king. In Othello, although there are no actual spirits looming, one symbolic handkerchief sets Othello into a jealous rage leading to chaos. These three Shakesperian plays contain supernatural figures or events that foreshadow or control the entire plot of each play. .
There are numerous supernatural events that carry forth in Julius Caesar, all of which that portend danger or murder. One night Caesar awakens to the screams of his wife, Calpurnia. She begins to tell her husband that she has had three terrible nightmares and explains what has happened in the city that night,Yet now they frighten me?Besides the things that we have heard and seen/Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch/A lioness hath whelped the streets/?graves have yawn?d and yielded up their dead/?fiery warriors fought upon the clouds?Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol?ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets?I do fear them.? Calpurnia was never one to heed omens, yet these supernatural occurrences frighten her, and she insists that Caesar not leave the house. However, Caesar being the proud tyrant of the house insists that he must attend the Senate hearing and dismisses her fears. Caesar then is stabbed to death by the conspirators, proving that the supernatural omens held truth. After Caesar's death, Brutus and Cassius are left to fight those who loved him. Before battle Brutus is approached by Caesar's ghost,((Brutus): Speak to me what thou art/(Ghost): Thy evil spirit, Brutus?To tell thee thou shalt seem me at Philipi?Ay, at Philippi.
