Foreshadowing

girl screamed until eventually people from the town were after George and Lennie. The story hints at bad situations that will come up later in the story. John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in the story Of Mice and Men to indicate the deaths of the farm dream, Curley’s wife, and Lennie Small. In the story, Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to indicate some key events that led to the death of the farm dream. When Curley’s wife comes into the barn, it shows something bad is going to happen because…

first sighting of the monster, as night falls and a storm builds. He looks at the dark scene, and he can just tell that he is about to be met with a horrible outcome. We find out later that he's right, and that this scene is yet another moment of foreshadowing. The monster is also brought to life at night, and commits many crimes during evening hours, which adds to the spooky horror effect. “A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic…

draws must then get their family to draw again.The person in which gains the black dot is then stoned to death by rocks.This was predicted through the foreshadowing before. Mr.…

Sophocles use of foreshadowing is very prevalent in this story; Antigone is warned a number of times to avoid burying her brother, but she continues to instead listen to her gut instincts, which turns out to be a horrible idea. Despite Antigone knowing that if she gets caught…

provokes Marcellus to say “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. As a reader, one could only assume that something horrible is bound to happen. After finishing Hamlet, one would believe that the most famous line in Shakespeare’s plays was foreshadowing for all of the events that occurred throughout the play. Throughout the story, this line is proven to be true. Themes of death, revenge, lying, betrayal, suicide, spying, and insanity become apparent. Soon after Marcellus spoke the…

This obligation to Stevie foreshadows many of Winnie’s future actions. One example of foreshadowing is when Winnie discovers that Stevie is dead. Because Winnie’s primary motivation for being with Verloc was Stevie, the reader can foreshadow that after Stevie’s death Winnie will leave and possibility kill Verloc because of her for Stevie and it being Verloc’s fault he is dead. After Stevie’s death, Winnie becomes distraught with rage. The only thing that was keeping her with Verloc was Stevie.…

Even worse, all of his girl friends already found dates and the tide of Anxiety Ocean was pulling him in. Now in the literary world, literature enthusiasts book worms call this “foreshadowing”, personally, I call it the power of empathy. Nonetheless, I felt how genuinely upset Tyler was-- it seemed like Life incessantly dealt Tyler lousy card after lousy card, yet I knew I could help him turn his awful hand into a Royal Flush. Little…

Whenever a film is produced there is conflict with whether viewers liked it or not; however, the answer to this statement is based off how the producer directs the movie. Did the film look realistic, is it exciting? Movie watchers look for this, they want to watch something interesting, not something that will bore them. Furthermore, the movie Psycho, was a black and white slasher produced in 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho shows many scenes that will leave the audience confused, a motel owner…

Foreshadowing is one of the most commonly used and helpful literary terms. It can be found in many, if not all, pieces of literature to develop the character’s personalities. For example, in the short story,“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Poe the foreshadowing helps to characterise Montresor, the main character, as cocky. Also, in the short story “The Most Dangerous game” by Richard Connell foreshadowing hints at how Rainsford is boastful and inhumane. In both of these short stories the…

Othello, a play written by the well known play writer Shakespeare, is a romantic tragedy containing foreshadowing that sets the scene for the tragedy to come. This foreshadowing is set into place so that the reader does not come to the final act and scene of the play and wonder, “where did that come from?” It is also there to create suspense and tension in the reader’s mind as they consider all the possibilities of what might come in the next scene. In other words, it helps build up the story to…