
Tim W. answered 04/10/20
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- When Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio are getting ready to crash the Capulet's party, Romeo remarks "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" (Act One, Scene Four). Here, Romeo is (correctly) foreshadowing the fact that his act of crashing the party will ultimately lead to his own death.
- When Romeo is descending the ladder outside Juliet's balcony so that he can flee to Mantua, Juliet says to Romeo "O God, I have an ill-divining soul / Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. / Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale" (Act Three, Scene Five). Here, Juliet is basically telling Romeo that he looks like he is dead. This foreshadows the fact that the next time Juliet sees Romeo, he will indeed be dead, from poison.