The lines that foreshadow the tragic ending of the play "Romeo and Juliet" are "I fear, too early: for my mind misgives... Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen."
<h3>What is foreshadowing?</h3>
Foreshadowing is a technique where information that does not seem important at first reveals itself to be crucial in the development of the story. Here, we are looking for lines that reveal the tragic ending of "Romeo and Juliet," that is, the death of the couple.
The lines that reveal such tragedy are Romeo's:
"I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen."
What Romeo means is that he is afraid of what will happen in the future, and he is thinking he might even die. That is, in fact, what will happen to him.
The missing excerpt is the following:
ROMEO: Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
Thou talk'st of nothing.
MERCUTIO: True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
BENVOLIO: This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves;
Supper is done, and we shall come too late.
ROMEO: I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.
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