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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
Act 5
Explanation and Analysis—Foreshadowing:
Goldsmith uses foreshadowing in the opening scene of She Stoops to Conquer to hint that outcomes are determined from the start, with Goldsmith firmly in control of the action. Near the beginning of Act 1, for example, Mrs Hardcastle grumbles about how they “live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn,” in a throwaway sentence that foreshadows what will come to be an essential part of Tony’s great prank, with him fooling Marlow that he has arrived at an inn and not the Hardcastles’ home. Similarly, the references to Mrs Hardcastle’s age in the couple’s bickering (in which there is emphasis placed on when Tony was born) hints that Mrs Hardcastle is not always honest about her real age. This foreshadows the play’s final revelation, in which it turns out she has been lying to Tony about his real age, too.
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