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Julius Caesar is mainly a study of the nature of politics and the motives of those who participate in them. Moreover, Shakespeare endeavors to embody his notion of other significant subject matters in the play in association to politics. For instance, one may suggest that the political division is the prominent theme in the play through which other divisions, such as the division of the self, are presented. Moreover, the division of the response of the audience toward key characters in the play is indicated: does the play represent Caesar as a demigod or a braggart, and is Brutus represented as a noble or a foolish man? Such divisions are conveyed successfully by means of dreams and ghosts which have several functions in the structure of the playas well as in its central action, i.e., the assassination of Julius Caesar. Sometimes the individual is obliged to recognize and admit the intervention of divinity in human life through dreams, and the dream of Caesar's wife is a striking example of such an intervention. By the second scene of Act Two, plans, omens and warnings of Caesar's approaching death have already