Please provide some examples of foreshadowing throughout Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,
one of the first examples of foreshadowing is when Romeo and his friends are thinking of
crashing the Capulets' party. Benvolio suggests that Romeo might find somone new there,
better than Rosaline. He says that by comparison, Romeo will see such beauties that
Rosaline will seem a crow when compared to these "swans." This is what happens, and this
is foreshadowing.

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BEN:

At
this same ancient feast of Capulet's

Sups the fair Rosaline
whom thou so lov'st;

With all the admired beauties of
Verona.

Go thither, and with unattainted
eye

Compare her face with some that I shall
show,

And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
(I.ii.86-91)

And then
Benvolio notes that Romeo has only ever weighed Rosaline against herself, but compared
to someone else, she might not fare so
well...

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BEN:

Tut!
you saw her fair, none else being by,

Herself pois'd with
herself in either eye;

But in that crystal scales let there
be weigh'd

Your lady's love against some other
maid

That I will show you shining at this
feast,

And she shall scant show well that now seems best.
(98-103)

In Act One, scene
four, as the men prepare to leave for the Capulets' party, Romeo expresses a dark
feeling of his impending death. This is foreshadowing
also.

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ROM:

…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, clos'd in my
breast,

By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
(113-118)

When Juliet first
encounters Romeo, she asks the Nurse who he is as he leaves the party, stating that if
he is married, she'll die a virgin, but her description states that her grave will be
her wedding bed. This actually is what ultimately
happens.

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JUL:

Go
ask his name.—If he be married,

My grave is like to be my
wedding bed. (I.v.143-144)

In
Juliet's very long speech in Act IV, scene three, she worries that she might wake from
her drugged sleep before Romeo arrives, surrounding by the bones of the dead. This is
more accurate than she could know—and Romeo will be among the bodies. First she wonders
if she will not be smothered in such a
place:

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JUL:

How
if, when I am laid into the tomb,

I wake before the time
that Romeo

Come to redeem me? There's a fearful
point!

Shall I not then be stifled in the
vault,

To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes
in,

And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
(32-37)

Then Juliet goes
further, wondering if she wakes among the bones and is driven mad by fear—even finding
Tybalt's enshrouded corpse—might she not kill herself? In truth, she
will kill herself, but not as she imagines: this is more
foreshadowing.

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JUL:

O,
if I wake, shall I not be distraught,

Environed with all
these hideous fears,

And madly play with my forefathers’
joints,

And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his
shroud,

And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's
bone

As with a club dash out my desp'rate brains?
(51-56)

These are all
examples of foreshadowing in Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet.