Foreshadowing In Charles Dickens Great Expectations

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Foreshadowing, commonly used to hint or give clues to future events, creates an overall suspense and desire for the reader to constantly yearn to continue. Dickens utilizes foreshadowing to hint at the upcoming death and darkness that will overwhelm all living within it. Day and night, the poor peasants work in order to provide enough food for their families, rarely celebrating with large feasts or drinks. Just outside the wine shop in Saint Antoine, a cask of wine shatters and “the red wine stain[s] the ground of the narrow street in the suburb… where it was spilled” which the desperate community quickly gulps down (Dickens 32). The wine spilling foreshadows the start of the Revolution and the many deaths that would occur during the tragic

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