Topdog/Underdog | Park's Use of Foreshadowing
Ullmann is a freelance writer and editor. In the following essay, Ullmann examines Parks’s use of foreshadowing in her play.
In her Pulitzer-Prize winning play Topdog/Underdog, Parks uses the literary device of foreshadowing in telling the story of the relationship between two brothers. The foreshadowing of Lincoln’s death by his brother Booth’s hand has many layers, from the obvious to the more personal and subtle. By the end of the play, Parks leaves the reader wondering whether Lincoln’s death was inevitable, no matter what choice either brother made.
On the broadest, most obvious level, the “joke” of the brothers’ names, Lincoln and Booth—after President...
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