Julius Caesar Superstitions

The Importance of Omens and Supernatural Events in Julius Caesar Over 80% of people today are superstitious and hold many beliefs about supernatural causality and how the world works. In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, various superstitions, fate, bad and good omens, and supernatural events have a important purpose within the story, foreshadowing important upcoming events and progress the plot through their interpretations by different characters. They are shown all across the story, but the best examples of these are when the events Casca noticed are used against him, when Calpurnia’s dream foretold Caesar’s death, and in the affect Caesar’s ghost had on Brutus up until his death. Casca meets up with Cicero at the start of act 1, scene 3 and is troubled by several mysterious events that he had witnessed:
I have seen tempests when the scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam...
A common slave—you know him well by sight— held up his left hand, which did flame and burn like twenty torches joined, and yet his hand,
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With the plans of the conspirators in motion and Caesar’s tragic flaw of hubris and false humility working against him, the reader can easily infer that today will indeed be the day of Caesar death. After knowing how he dies though, the reader can easily draw parallels between what happened and the dream like the many holes due to being stabbed 33 times, the conspirators wearing Caesar’s blood, etc. This dream ends up being a detriment to her and Caesar though because of Decius Brutus. Decius Brutus was an important conspirator and on the day Calpurnia had her dream, he was tasked with drawing out Caesar from his home and lure him to the capital. He manipulated the dream by