Hamlet

What is important about Horatio’s allusions to Julius Caesar?

Act 1

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Horatio alludes to stories of supernatural sightings that occurred right before the assassination of Julius Caesar: this assassination would incite civil war in Rome. Horatio mentions Julius Caesar to the guards because he sees the ghost’s appearance as an ominous sign just like in Julius Caesar.