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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
Book 1, Chapter 8
Explanation and Analysis—Overhung by a Dark Cavern:
When Louisa and Tom discuss their futures, and Tom says that he has already anticipated a means by which to gain the upper hand over Bounderby, which is an instance of foreshadowing:
“Oh,” said Tom, laughing, “I don’t mind that. I shall know very well how to manage and smoothe old Bounderby!”
Their shadows were defined upon the wall, but those of the high presses in the room were all blended together on the wall and on the ceiling, as if the brother and sister were overhung by a dark cavern. Or, a fanciful imagination—if such treason could have been there—might have made it out to be the shadow of their subject, and of its lowering association with their future.
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