Foreshadowing In Romeo And Juliet

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Imagine if you were seconds away from being with the one person that you were completely in love with and they slipped away from you in such a small amount of time and were gone forever. Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet and it was the first play about romantic love. The play, Romeo and Juliet ends up a terrible tragedy. Both Romeo and Juliet were in love with each other. They missed each other by seconds, and both ended up dying in the end. Throughout this story, there are many instances of foreshadowing in this play that lead to fate. First off, Juliet is put into this position that she is trying to avoid and get out of marrying Paris. So, Juliet begs her mom mother to help her avoid the marriage to Paris: “O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!/ Delay this marriage for a month, a week/ Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed/ In that dim monument where Tybalt lies” (3.5.198-201) Juliet is saying that she’d rather die than marry Paris, by the end of the play she is sleeping with her husband “in that dim monument where Tybalt lies.” Secondly, Before Friar Laurence tells Juliet of his plan to have …show more content…

Lastly, Friar Lawrence says, “These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder.”(2.6.9-10) The Friar is foreshadowing the death of Romeo and Juliet, saying that the “violent delights” are them getting married, and their marriage will have a violent end. The friar uses the word "violent" to express that Romeo's love for Juliet is violently strong but can also lead to

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