Examples Of Foreshadowing In Othello

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In life one does not know what destiny has in store for them. We live our lives with a planned schedule, however we are not always so sure that our day will end the way we think. If only there was something that a narrator or someone telling our own story can say to “give us a hint” of what will come. Foreshowing in literature is used countless of times, it is a literary device in which a writer gives a hint of what is to come further in the story or parable. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story and helps the reader develop expectations or guess what will happen in the story. There are various ways of foreshadowing, such as a writer may use dialogue to hint what may occur in future. The title of a work or a chapter title …show more content…

“It gives me wonder great as my content, to see you here before me. Oh, my soul’s joy! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have wakened death, And let the laboring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high, and duck again as low, As hell’s from heaven! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.” (Act II Scene I Line 176-186). These lines show that right now everything is fine for Othello, but sooner or later the love life and royal status of himself and Desdemona will take a turn for the worst. Othello seems excited and filled with joy speaking with Desdemona. I reiterate a part from the quote above “If after every tempest come such calms” meaning if for every storm there was a calm. I believe that this is a significant part of this quote because he is excited to see Desdemona and quickly starts to talk about a storm which leads me to think that being with Desdemona will have its good and bad. He later in the quote states that he would want the winds of that storm to blow until it has awakened the dead, and he would want wave to shoot up as high as mountains (Climb hills of sea) and dip low (hell). I believe the mountains represent his royal and …show more content…

Yet could I bear that too, well, very well. But there where I have garnered up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up—to be discarded thence! Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads, To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin,— Ay, there, look grim as hell!“ (Act IV Scene II Lines 54-64). He states that he believes that Desdemona is in fact cheating on him and says that he believed that Desdemona was going to be the woman in which his family would descend from but that thought was shattered when he was enlightened to the fact that Desdemona was cheating on him. He used the metaphor of the fountain “The fountain from which my current runs, or else fries up.” He compares her as a fountain which is supposed to be flowing with water (water would be his descendent) however as he continues it says that it dries up meaning no more descendants and lets the reader assume he does not want to make love and therefore does not love her. This also shows a foreshadow because in fact, she does not help Othello continue his descendants because he kills her. Though Shakespeare does foreshadow many deaths of feelings and ideas he also foreshadows death of

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