calpurnia

• “like a fountain with a hundred spouts, did run pure blood“


  graphic imagery - Caesar ignores her prophetic visions - patriarchy
• “you shall not stir out of your house today”


  imperatives - assertive to Caesar due to confidence in the supernatural
• “your wisdom is consumed in confidence”


  warns Caesar against his own hamartia of ambition
• “the heavens blaze forth the death of princes“


  celestial imagery