Foreshadowing is a representation before hand, some kind of premonition of what happens in the story. In the play 'Antigone', the main character of the same name decides to disobey an inhumane, unfair, unjust, unpopular law. The foreshadowing of what happens to her in her disobedience is her statement to her sister, Ismene, 'I shall not suffer aught so dreadful as an ignoble death'. Antigone indeed hangs herself after being walled up in a remote cave, away from Haemon, her fiance and first cousin.
The foreshadowing of what happens in response to the law is the blind prophet Teiresias' statement to Theban King Creon, 'A time not long to be delayed shall awaken the wailing of men and women in thy house'. King Creon indeed suffers the loss of Eurydice, his wife and his Queen; and of his son, Haemon. Both commit suicide.