William Shakespeare
It is pretty much widely known that Shakespeare's tradegies end with an unreasonable, yet inevitable amount of people dying. This makes it no surprise at all when Desdomona foreshadows her own death. When speaking to Emilia, Desdemona says "If I do die before thee, prithee shroud me/ In one of those same sheets." (IV, iii, 23-24). Desdemona speaks of her wedding sheets which Emilia set out on her bed. Out of her confusion of Othello's anger, Desdemona tries to rekindle the romance between them and to remind him of their marriage and the love they had then. Desdemona speaks out and foreshadows her own fate. It seems like she knows she is going to die. Hopefully she hadn't thought that it would be of the circumstances by which it happened, but it really does seem like she has a good feel of the way things are heading for her.
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