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Definition of Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. Foreshadowing can be achieved directly or indirectly, by making... read full definition
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. Foreshadowing can be achieved... read full definition
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the... read full definition
Chapter 4
Explanation and Analysis—A Summer Face:
Hardy uses personification to describe the day that Gabriel chooses to propose to Bathsheba:
On a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution—a fine January morning when there was just enough blue sky visible to make cheerfully disposed people wish for more, and an occasional sunshiny gleam of silvery whiteness, Oak put the lamb into a respectable Sunday basket, and stalked across the fields to the home of Mrs Hurst the aunt [...]
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Chapter 13
Explanation and Analysis—Marry Me:
In a heavy handed moment of foreshadowing, Bathsheba sends her future suitor a gag valentine with the words “Marry Me” printed across it:
Unlock with LitCharts A+A large red seal was duly affixed. Bathsheba looked closely at the hot wax to discover the words. “Capital!” she exclaimed, throwing down the letter frolicsomely. “’Twould upset the solemnity of a parson and clerke too.”
Liddy looked at the words of the seal, and read—
“MARRY ME.”
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Chapter 23
Explanation and Analysis—Bathsheba's Song:
In a moment of explicit foreshadowing, Bathsheba sings a song about jilted lovers at a dinner held in her house:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Subsequent events caused one of the verses to be remembered for many months, and even years, by more than one of those who were gathered there:—
For his bride a soldier sought her,
And a winning tongue had he:
On the banks of Allan Water
None was gay as she!
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