Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Throughout the book, foreshadowing is a literary technique that is used in a variety of situations. Most commonly, the foreshadowing was provided in the foreshadow of someone's death. The first foreshadow was of Victor's friend Henry's death. Before we discover that Henry has died, Frankenstein says, "And where does he (Henry) now exist? Is this gentle and lovely being lost forever?... your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend" (Shelley, 114). Through this statement, Victor talks as if his friend is deceased. This allows the reader to assume that Henry has died and will die shortly in Victor's narrative. He also foreshadows Elizabeth's and his father's deaths. In the last part of chapter 22, Victor is talking of how the monster blinded him of his true intentions when the creature said, "he'd be with him on his wedding night." Well considering Victor thought that he himself was the target and is saying he is wrong, it is pretty much saying that Elizabeth was the victim. The father's death was also foreshadowed through all of Victor's loved ones dying, and he was old and sick.
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