Foreshadowing In Romeo And Juliet

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Foreshadowing * Hints certain plot developments that will come later in the story * Arouse viewers about how the story will proceed * Mentally prepare readers for how the story will unfold Act 1 PROLOGUE From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove -fate of two foes make a star-cross’d lovers -end the strife with their deaths -star-cross’d lover: hinting at their deaths film: -news reporter, depict the summarized plot of the story -technique…show more content…
-Juliet first encounters Romeo -> want to know his name, - stating that if Romeo has married, she will die unmarried, because she will never marry another - foreshadowing her fate, in which her grave does become her wedding bed. Act 2 Scene 5 (9-14) Friar Lawrence’s warnings to behave moderately if Romeo and Juliet wish to avoid tragedy: ------------------------------------------------- FRIAR LAURENCE ------------------------------------------------- These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, ------------------------------------------------- . . . Therefore love moderately - Violent, fire and powder -> Foreshadowing - As the result of their love, they died for each
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