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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, Scene 3
Explanation and Analysis—A Blazing Star :
In the final act of the play, a “blazing star” or meteor serves as a portent of doom and foreshadows the play’s bloody climax, which sees the deaths of most major characters and results in a catastrophic upheaval of the social order of the play:
Lussurioso. We are for pleasure.
Beshrew thee, what art thou? Mad’st me start!
Thou hast committed treason – a blazing star.Noble. A blazing star, O where, my lord?
Lussurioso. Spy out.
Noble. See, see, my lords, a wondrous dreadful one.
Lussurioso. I am not pleased at that ill-knotted fire,
That bushing staring star – am not I duke?
It should not quake me now. Had it appeared
Before it, I might then have justly feared.
But yet they say, whom art and learning weds:
When stars wear locks, they threaten great men’s heads.
Is it so? You are read, my lords.
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