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    by utilizing foreshadowing and metaphors throughout the play. Shakespeare utilized foreshadowing to compare fate to the stars. He makes references to the stars or fate in the play quite often through characters and discretely points at the theme. Early into the play he already references the stars. “a pair of star crossed lovers take their life..” (1. Prologue. 6) This first quote represents both Romeo and Juliet being governed by fate’s commands. Shakespeare is foreshadowing the suicide that

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    Landlady by Roald Dahl is about a weird old lady and a young man named Billy Weaver. Billy is traveling to the city of Bath for his first job when he happens to run into an old boarding house that strangly draws him towards it. Roald Dahl uses foreshadowing to create suspense in his short story The Landlady by talking about her past guest in past and present tense‚ how the house forces him to stay‚ and how he recognizes her past guests names. First‚ the old lady begins talking about her past guest

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    While they are trapped‚ they think they hear their men coming‚ when it is not their men‚ they let out a small laugh‚ as many foul beasts come charging. Saki used many literary elements in “The Interlopers”‚ he not only used irony‚ theme‚ and foreshadowing‚ but many more. Saki used many incredible examples

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    Foreshadowing Throughout the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet‚ there are numerous examples of foreshadowing that hint at the play’s disastrous ending. An example of foreshadowing would be Friar Lawrence’s soliloquy at the beginning of act two‚ scene. While delivering this speech‚ Friar Lawrence is filling a basket with medical flowers and poisonous weeds in the morning after the Capulet feast. In the soliloquy‚ the ghostly friar muses on how the Earth provides many forms of nourishment‚

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    Throughout the book “Of Mice and Men‚” the author John Steinbeck drops hints of what will happen further in the book‚ also known as foreshadowing. To begin‚ the first foreshadowin moment is when George tells Lennie what to do if he ever gets in trouble. “Lennie—if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before‚ I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush.” This later relates to when Lennie had to go and hide in the brush after he killed Curley’s wife and his pup. Furthermore

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    of the show is so unique. Bryan Cranston produces and stars in the show as Walter White‚ the protagonist who develops cancer at the beginning of the show. The writers of Breaking Bad use the introductions to new characters‚ plot twists‚ and foreshadowing to critically analyze what it means to “break bad”‚ or to take matters into ones on hands‚ as they watch Walter White transform from high school chemistry teacher to mass meth producer.

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    victim. What kind of attitude will trigger a murder? Insane as it may sound‚ a negative attitude might actually induce a man to kill. Indeed‚ attitude determines destiny. In Edgar Allan Poe’s two short stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ both speakers illustrate malicious and secretive attitudes towards their victims who both end up dead in a brutal way. First of all‚ a malicious attitude can be sensed in the two stories. To begin with‚ the mad man in “Tell-Tale Heart”

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    Foreshadowing In "Three Dirges" A sense of ominous foreboding permeates the woeful passage from "Three Dirges." The conflict is immediately apparent : "Don Lazaro‚ you’ve got five boys in Comitan teaching the campesinos how to read. That’s subversive. That’s communist. So tonight‚ you have to kill them." Don Lazaro‚ the mayor of the war torn village‚ San Martin Comitan‚ seems to have no choice but to carry out this heartless command. His response is indicative of a desperate man searching for answers

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    Student Mrs. Hammel English 101 September 10‚ 2014 Foreshadowing in “A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner is the author of the Nobel prize winning short story‚ “A Rose for Emily.” The story takes place in the nineteenth century in Jefferson‚ Mississippi‚ and the theme of the underlying American story is resistance to change. It is a challenge to the readers to understand that this story portrays to be a horror‚ yet it leaves the readers with a vague feeling of what anyone person would feel

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    play‚ when someone was running‚ fast music would play. During the day Rose was cold towards Jack‚ at night their relationship prevailed and Rose was in love. This shows viewers that she didn’t want their relationship to be known. Cameron used foreshadowing throughout the Titanic which is shown when: the captain and crew are talking about the calm water‚ if there’s an iceberg they wouldn’t be able to see it‚ and when Rose explains that if something were to happen‚ there wouldn’t be enough lifeboats

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