Foreshadowing had a major significance in Shelley's Frankenstein. Without a doubt, the most evident example of foreshadowing was the threat of the creature towards Victor. "I shall be with you on your wedding-night"(Shelley, 123). I mean besides foreshadowing, he is essentially telling Victor, prepare for bad stuff the night you get married. Upon hearing this, Victor goes AWOL. He vows to devote the remainder of his life towards the end of the creature. In the end, Victor eventually succumbs to nature and dread, but his final wish will eventually be fulfilled.
When looked at as a whole, the entire characterization of the two main figures can be looked at as a type of foreshadowing. Victor, the nearly insane, sometimes weak, morbid figures dies before his work is complete. The creature, a strong, mostly evil, sometimes good, individual outlasts Victor and eventually commits himself to death. We can extract from the prior behaviors of the characters who will likely outlast the other as well.
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