Foreshadowing: Watch out what you say!
In the play of Romeo and Juliet, I will try to examine the foreshadowing Shakespeare hiding among the lines in the dialogues. In the play, there are lots of lines give readers hint about what is going to happening in the end. However, because of Romeo and Juliet’s extreme love that they feel love is much more important then there lives, they ignore the aftermath and are controlled by their emotion but not rational mind. They speak out the words which push them nearer and nearer to their tragedy ending. For example, Romeo said in the play that he would choose to die rather than leave from Juliet. Therefore, foreshadowing criticize the dangers of extreme love which Shakespeare want to warn people from his foreshadowing of the play.
I choose Act 2 Scene 2 which is the balcony scene, Act 3 Scene 3 which is the scene that Romeo get banished, and Act 5 Scene 5 which is the end of the play. The foreshadowing sentences in Act 2 Scene 3 and Act 3 Scene 3 which match the ending Romeo and Juliet have which is quite irony. Therefore, I am going to exaggerate the foreshadowing sentences in the play, but Romeo and Juliet will ignore them because they are so in love. I am also going to change the background music and lighting to alert audience when there is a foreshadowing in the sentence. In that case, it will show audience that how dangerous extreme love is which let people ignore the obvious foreshadowing.
There are only two people in our group. I am going to act as Romeo during the entire play. Julie who is my group member will act as Juliet and Father Lawrence. Because there are only two people in our group, it is quite easy for us to split the same amount of lines. Each of us will have about 4 minutes long lines to say. As you can see, it is my perfect plan about the play. Hey! Dude watch out your lines! There are foreshadowing!
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