Julius Caesar Imagery Analysis

Throughout Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare uses imagery to paint out images in your mind. He uses the language to express what is happening in the play because they are very minimalistic. Since they have limited resources and props they are forced to show what happens through words. This play spotlights various examples of imagery to help the audience understand this historical tragedy. He uses words to show all of the crazy things Casca sees during the day, to show Calpurnia's dream which foreshadows Caesar's death and Shakespeare also uses imagery to describe Caesar's gruesome and bloody death. The use of imagery helps the reader to visualize what is going on. During the day Casca, who is a conspirator, sees some very strange things and he goes and tells …show more content…
Shakespeare uses imagery to help you understand and see what Casca saw. He uses imagery to help you envision the sight of men walking down the street on fire but their one hand is immune to the fire. He states “which flamed and burned, like twenty torches joined” …show more content…
He uses it to also show the betrayal in Caesar’s death, how all of Caesar’s “friends” betray him by formulating a plan to kill Caesar. The ample amount of blood that flows from Caesar is portrayed through imagery. After being stabbed to death, Brutus says for him and the other conspirators to “let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood up to the elbows, and besmear our swords: Then walk we forth, even to the marketplace, And, waving our red weapons o’er our heads” (3.1.107-10). The use of imagery in this scene allows us to see the bloody murder of Caesar along with the betrayal and flaunting of the murder by the conspirators. Imagery is able to help you picture all of the conspirators stabbing Caesar and then when they all go through the streets covered in Caesar’s blood crying