| Act 1 Scene 1: The prologue introduces the storyline and tells us what will happen- foreshadowing the events that will happen later in the play | From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents’ strife.The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,And the continuance of their parents’ rage,Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove |
| Romeo Act 1 Scene 4: he’s got a bad feeling about going to the Capulet mansion; a premonition | I fear, too early: for my mind misgivesSome consequence yet hanging in the starsShall bitterly begin his fearful dateWith this night’s revels and expire the termOf a despised life closed in my breastBy some vile forfeit of untimely death.But He, that hath the steerage of my course,Direct my sail! |
| Tybalt Act 1 Scene 5: he’s just seen Romeo gatecrash the banquet and swears revenge. | I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall |
| Friar Lawrence Act 2 Scene 6: really hoping that we’re not punished by God for making this marriage happen. | So smile the heavens upon this holy act, That after hours with sorrow chide us not! |
| Juliet Act 3 Scene 5: she has a bad premonition; she thinks she can see Romeo dead. | O God, I have an ill-divining soul!Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale |
| Romeo Act 5 Scene 1: has had a good dream and feels like something good will happen today. He feels unusually positive. | If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne;And all this day an unaccustom’d spiritLifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. |
Romeo and Juliet- Foreshadowing
December 15, 2019