Essay On Foreshadowing In Romeo And Juliet

I really liked Romeo and Juliet because of the amount of irony and foreshadowing in the text. For instance, Romeo says “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead. And breathed such life with kisses in my lips”(V.i.6-9). This is an obvious example of foreshadowing to the upcoming scene where Juliet believes that Romeo is dead, and tries to take the poison from his lips. This quote is also a reference to Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech about how dreamers usually see what they want to see in dreams. I like this quote because it relates something from the past to the future through the present and connects everything together. Another thing that I liked was the amount of irony, which is present in Romeo’s choices from the very beginning of the novel where he firsts states that he is in love with Rosaline by saying “that the all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match since the world first begun”(I.iii.99-100). In this scene we find Romeo pining for Rosaline and saying that there is no one in the world more beautiful than her in the world; but then he somehow instantaneously gets over her after seeing Juliet, where he states that he has “ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (I.v.60). I like irony between these statements because it gives the audience
For example, the characters in this play always get into fights and say things to “ruffle the other side’s feathers” and as a result of this tension, the two main characters commit suicide, without thinking about how to approach the situation rationally. For instance, at the very beginning of the text, the Capulet guards try to provoke the Montague guards by “bite(ing) [their] thumb at them, which is disgrace if they bear it” (I.i.43-44). This then results in a small fight and the Prince of Verona comes to warn them of the consequences. (This can also be an example of foreshadowing because now the audience knows that someone will endure a penalty as a result of this new