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Romeo and Juliet - Foreshadowing

 

 

Foreshadowing has been used throughout the ages of literature revealing horroriffic endings and scheming love, helping the reader from being to overly surprised by the outcomes. Many writers use this technique of writing utilizing its ability to add so much more meaning to a novel. As in the age of Elizabethans, directors and actors caged this skill exploiting it when ever thought necessary. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare utilizes foreshadowing to keep the audience from becoming to upset by the tragic outcome. He also uses it to display Romeo's and Juliet's enduring love for one another.

 

In Romeo and Juliet a significantly horrendous ending takes place, but with Shakespeare's use of foreshadowing he is able to keep the reader from being overly traumatized. For example, when Juliet and Romeo are discussing plans Juliet says, "O God, I have an ill-divining soul! / Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of the tomb"(lll,v,14-56). Juliet has mixed feelings about the arrangement devised by the Friar so that the two of them can be together. Juliet thinks disaster will come of previous tactics developed to allow Romeo and her to be together. In addition, when Romeo is speaking of his love for Juliet he says, "And but thou love me, let them find me here. / My life were better ended by there hate / Then death prorogued, wanting of thy love"(ll,ii,75-77). Romeo's immense love for Juliet will eventually lead to the fall of himself. Death lingers throughout the play between Romeo and his love, Juliet. In conclusion, when Juliet is thinking about Romeo she says, "Give me Romeo; and when he shall die / Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night," (lll,ii,21-25). This suggests that in the play Romeo will end up dying and Juliet will be there to see it. Juliet prophesizes over many topics in the play and in the end they become true. Foreshadowing is used in this play to help the audience trounce the dreadful outcome.

 

Shakespeare use foreshadowing in the play to reveal a love that cant be thwarted and let us in on imperative scenes to come. For example, when Romeo and Benvolio are talking about Tybalt, Romeo says, "This day's black fate on more days doth depend: / This but begins the woe others must end" (lll,I,115-116). Romeo is going to kill Tybalt for the hatred he has bestowed upon him. Romeo makes rash decisions that tear their relationship between one another apart even more. In addition, when Juliet's mother is talking to her she says, " To bear a poison, I would temper it- / That Romeo should upon receipt thereof / Soon sleep in quiet" (lll,v,93-99). Lady Capulet wants to Kill Romeo. Also it hints to the reader that Romeo will die by poison. Furthermore, as Benvolio and Romeo discourse, Benvolio exclaims, "Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead: stabbed with a white wench's black eye; run through the ear with a love song" the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft" (ll,iv,13-16). Romeo is going to die because of his pursuing love of Juliet. Romeo is an affectionate person who alas just wants to be with Juliet. Shakespeare use foreshadowing to tell us about upcoming scenes and expose the love between Juliet and Romeo.

 

Foreshadowing is used to help the reader from being to astonished by disastrous outcomes and help hint at scenes to come. In Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, foreshadowing is used to predict outcomes of the play and express love, which Juliet and Romeo share for one another. Many Shakespearean writers exploit the use of foreshadowing to make there writings all the better. Today this skill is used throughout literary fields taking advantage of its powerful influences on the reader.