Romeo and Juliet Journal #5

There are many good examples of premonitions in this play, which foreshadow the disaster at the end of it. I found some a few.

1. Act 1, Scene 4- Romeo says, "Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars... Of a despised life, closed in my breast, by some vile forfeit of untimely death." Romeo is talking about how he despises his life, at the moment, because he was rejected by Rosaline, the woman he was in love with at the time. He is also saying that he thinks his fate will bring untimely death, that it is written in the stars for him, as a consequence of something.

2. Act 1, Scene 5- Juliet says, " Too early seen unknown, and known too late." Here, she is talking about how she didn't know that the bnoy was Romeo until she had fallen for him. This also foreshadows of how later in the play, when she appears dead, Romeo saw her, and he thought she was dead, even though he wasn't supposed to see her. Then he kills himself on impulse, thinking she was gone forever to him, and it is too late when she wakes up.

3. Act 1, Scene 5- Juliet says, " Go ask his name-If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding-bed." This a premonition that foreshadows her death that is only a few days after they are married. She also means that she might die if she cannot marry him and be with him, because she falls in love at first sight. In the end, she does, when she finds he kills himself because he thinks she is dead, so she kills herself because she loved him so much and couldn't live without him.