Foreshadowing In Romeo And Juliet

People all over the world fall in and out of love every single day, and sometimes a person’s love story is not at all how they wanted it to be. This is shown in two different love stories. In Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, readers meet a boy named Romeo and a girl named Juliet who have a forbidden love. Because of their love, they feel that killing themselves is the best way to be together. And in the book Naughts and Crosses written by Malorie Blackman, This is a story of not only forbidden love, but it also ties in aspects of racism. These stories show readers that a person’s love towards another person can make people deny societies ideas and opinions. To begin, in “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare …show more content…
One example of foreshadowing shown in Romeo and Juliet was found on page 838, Lady Capulet says, “Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks. I would the fool were married to her grave…” What Lady Capulet is saying is telling readers that Lady Capulet believes that Juliet is acting as if she doesn’t want to get married because it would be like dying to her. This is important because Juliet later kills herself because she does not want to be married to anyone but Romeo. She would rather die with Romeo than live without him. In another example of foreshadowing shown in Naughts and Crosses can be found on page 280 when Sephy’s servant asks,“You- you’re not pregnant are you?” This is very important to readers because later on in the story Sephy gets pregnant and with Callum's baby. What Sephy believed to be impossible happened to her, and Callum was not able to live to see it. Within these two stories are many similarities, but foreshadowing was the biggest one that tied these two stories closer together. Juliet did end up dying next to Romeo in her grave just like her mother had said and Sephy ended up pregnant and with Callum's