Foreshadowing Essay In the novel Morality Play by Barry Unsworth, there are very many beautifully vivid and descriptive passages. The most effective passages are those that foreshadow1 events to come. This passage is specifically foreshadowing the protagonist Nicholas Barber, a runaway priest, and the mayhem that befalls him in later instances of the novel. The passage is set just off of the roadside at some time in the cold of night, and adds to the …showed first 75 words of 498 total…

…showed last 75 words of 498 total…have gone my way with no further syllable and all the haste I could summon" (Morality Play14). By telling the story in the perspective of some years later, Barber foreshadows more clearly the chaos which takes place through their investigations for their play of Thomas Wells, and the trouble the truth of their finding gets them into. This passage is vivid; greatly descriptive at times, and demonstrates the mood that consists throughout the entire play.