In Euripides' play Medea, what concern does the Nurse reveal when she tells the children to go inside? Can this be foreshadowing?

Tamara K. H.

is a
literary device that can be employed to give readers
and audience members
hints at what is to come. Foreshadowing can be created through ",
language
and/or symbolism" ("Foreshadowing," Literary
Terms).
While foreshadowing only implies what will happen in the future and
"does not
directly give away" what will happen, foreshadowing can be subtle or more

direct. The editors of Literary Terms give us an example
of
more direct foreshadowing in which a business
woman leaving for
work declares she has forgotten something at home and a
camera zooms in on a USB stick. The
camera zoom directly
implies that she will soon realize she has
left a very
important USB stick at home, which will lead to a future
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Early in ' play , the Nurse certainly
gives
us some very direct foreshadowing about what is to come. The first
instance of direct
foreshadowing is found in...

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