There are many examples of foreshadowing in the novel Frankenstein. In one of his letters, a quote from said letter can be seen to the right, Robert Walton foreshadows the hefty consequences Frankenstein will eventually encounter for his pursuit of knowledge. |
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race." (Shelley 13)
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Shelly also foreshadows both Henry's and Frankenstein's deaths, respectively, with the quotes "A being formed in the 'very poetry of nature.' His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart. His soul overflowed with ardent affections and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the world-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination." (Shelley 145), and "I was possessed by a kind of nightmare. I felt the fiend's grasp in my neck, and could not free myself from it; groans and cries rung in my ears" (Shelley 174). Henry's death was foreshadowed by describing his character in the past tense. Frankenstein's death was foreshadowed by his feelings of death by the monsters hand, and while the monster did not physically kill him, it had a large and indirect effect on him that ultimately lead to his death.