"Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity." (Page 80)
If that isn't foreshadowing, I don't know what is. The creature is explaining his tale to Victor, and he seems to have an innate sense of his imminent demise or someone else's. Mary Shelley doesn't strike me as the type of author to accidentally use the word 'fatal,' so I'm confident someone's going to die. Someone has to die though. It's Frankenstein! That name just screams terror and death in the world today, and then mentality had to come from somewhere.
Mary Shelley has favored foreshadowing in the first 12 chapters of this book, and it reminded me of the song "The Best is Yet to Come" today while we were discussing this scene in class. However, in this case I was replacing the word 'best' with 'worst.' This story is bound to get juicy, and my guess is it will only be in a positive direction after some serious negative events.
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