Examples Of Foreshadowing In Romeo And Juliet

Fate is something that was destined to happen or occur . Romeo and Juliet is a play set in Verona, Italy over the course of four days .The capulets and montagues are feuding. Romeo is a montague and Juliet is a capulet these two children end up falling for eachother but realize they can never be together because of their families generational war. In the play Romeo and Juliet by shakespeare uses the literary device foreshadowing to shows that love cannot change fate.
In the play Romeo and Juliet uses foreshadowing to represent the theme love cannot change fate. The star cross lovers start to fall for eachother but realize they are supposed be foes Romeo says “Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks,But to his foe supposed he must complain,
And

Ah me! How sweet is love itself possessed”(5.1.6-10)This is also foreshadowing because Romeo says that he dreamt that Juliet found him dead. ( At the end of the play) Romeo drinks the poison so he and his love can “die together” as we all know Juliet was never dead. Juliet was pretending to die so she could be with Romeo but because of their fate they died with never getting to a deeper relationship past the four days. Romeo and Juliet were fighting against their fate but at the end the learn that when it come to fate it can never be

Benvolio persuades Romeo to go to the capulet party so Romeo can find other love interest besides of rosaline “sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves with all the admired beauties Verona.Go thither, and with unattainted eye compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”(1.2.85-90) Benvolio is foreshadowing Romeo meeting his swan also known as Juliet. Romeo and Juliet end up meeting each other and romeo eventually says “so shows a snowy dove trooping crows”(1.5.116)after meeting Juliet, this is represented that there love can change and their fate was that he was meant to find juliet but to never be w
Not to mention Juliet was on the balcony speaking about romeo who was a montague and juliet say that she does not want him to get caught by the other capulet but Romeo says “My life were better ended by their hate than death proroguèd, wanting of thy love.”(2.2.77-78). Romeo is stating that he would rather die than to never be with her. This is foreshadowing that he kills himself because he thinks that Juliet was dead so he dies for her so he does not have to live without her. He also say he does not want his life without Juliet being in it, because of their fate they can never be with each other without it being extremely