Foreshadowing is providing hints or clues to what will
happen later in the novel. Sometimes these hints are obvious, but other times they are
only inferred. The best time to find examples of foreshadowing would be during your
second time reading the novel.
Here are a few
specifics:
Rats - Winston hates rats; they appear in his
nightmare, and in reality, in his sanctuary above the prole shop. Later, rats become
the only things that makes Winston betray Julia.
The room
above the prole shop is not safe. The huge picture is just the size of a telescreen.
Julia actually wants to clean behind it. If she had, they would have discovered they
were being watched.
The Chestnut Tree Cafe is a place where
old, washed-up people accumulate. Winston continually thinks of a song his mother sang
to him about a spreading chestnut tree. However, he cannot think of the ending. Only
when he is captured, does he remember the ending, and, ironically, the Chestnut Tree
Cafe is exactly where the rehabilitated Winston ends up.
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