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When writing the play Julius Caesar Shakespeare used repetition, irony, and foreshadowing to show the great Julius Caesar as boastful. Caesar himself decides to compare himself to the northern star, to say that he is head and shoulders above everyone else. in Rome and since Rome was thought of as the most noblest place there is, he’s truly saying that he is the greatest in the world. a truly ironic scene because Julius Caesar dies in this scene and it was foreshadowed many times before his death even in the face of Caesar, but for some reason he could not avoid his own death and truly his arrogance killed for if Decius’ Brutus; persuasive tactics were aimed straight at Caesar’s ego, people would call him a coward, and that would take away his chance to get the crown, and that the people at the meeting would laugh at him if he did not come,. “And know it now: the senate have concluded To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar,. If you shall send them word you will not come, their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock Apt to be rendered for someone to say, “Break up the senate...

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