Mary Shelley's Foreshadowing In Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley made predicting what would happen in Frankenstein fairly easy because she would foreshadow certain events. Foreshadowing is a very important literary device when reading and writing a book. Foreshadowing helps the reader predict what will happen next. For example, horror movies are incredibly easy to predict what will happen next. If the young teenager is about to open the closet while creepy music plays, we can predict that they are going to die. I think that Frankenstein is going to leave the monster because he is totally disgusted with his appearance and cannot believe he has created such an ugly creature. The emotional distress that the monster is going to go through because Frankenstein won’t love him is going to

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