Using Weather To Foreshadow Events In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

In Julius Caesar, they use dreams and even the weather to foreshadow events that are going to happen later in the story. Casca said “The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam” (I.III.9) which may not seem significant, but it foreshadowed the uprising of Brutus and the noble men wanting to kill Caesar. Casca saying this caused suspension and wonder about what was actually going to happen. They used what Casca said to predict what was going to happen in the future; it represented Brutus and the noble men being angry with Caesar. Brutus was saying that Caesar was ambitious during his death speech, which Casca predicted when he said “the ambitious ocean.” Shakespeare used the weather to pretty much predict what Brutus was going to say about Caesar.
A lot of people today still use the weather and stuff to predict how their day is going to be. If it rains or storms, they may think they are going to have a bad day. When it is nice and sunny, they may think they are going to have a good day. People today still do what Shakespeare did in the play Julius Caesar. …show more content…
They murder Caesar/” (II.II.5) When she woke up, she tried to warn Caesar not to go to the capitol that day because she feared something bad was going to happen to him based on her nightmares. Caesar listened to her at first, but then was persuaded to go to the capitol by the noble men anyways. Calphurnia, however, turned out to be right, they ended up doing exactly what she said had happened in her dream. They murdered Caesar at the capitol and “washed their hands” in his blood. Calphurnia’s dream predicted what was going to happen to Caesar at the capitol, but Caesar went anyways. If he had just listened to Calphurnia and maybe stayed home that day, the story could have been completely