Cameron Santoro

Blog#3

2/9/14

Foreshadowing in Romeo and Juliet

So far in Romeo and Juliet we have just witnessed the happiest moment in the play. Romeo and Juliet are married, Romeo isn't going to be put to death for killing Tybalt, and the Friar has put a plot together to smuggle Juliet into Mantua. But this will not be because this plan is going to get them all killed.  This is called foreshadowing because Romeo addresses the Friar as his “ghostly advisor”. Now this could merely mean that he is a priest and deals with spiritual things, but it also means that he is going to get them killed and they will be spirits.

But there is another example of foreshadowing in Act two scene two were Juliet says this, Yet I would kill thee for such cherishing. Right now she is saying that she is going to love him so much that she is going to kill him with it, and that is what happens. Love is the entire reason everything goes down here. When Juliet sees Romeo is dead she loves him so much she can’t live without him so she kills herself. Also, she kills Romeo because he didn’t know Juliet was sleeping in the tomb so he drinks the poison, she did kill him with her love.