Which of the following foreshadows the destruction to

The motif of death and disease.

Explanation:

Foreshadowing is a literary hint that a writer gives to indicate what is to come in a story. Often it appears at the beginning of a story to increase the reader's appetite and expectations about a future event. To foreshadow the destruction to come implies that an hint has been given for the expectation of a terrible unexpected occurrence.

Shakespeare's Hamlet personifies death as a shadow, and depicts disease by madness. Hamlet's father appeared to him in the form of a ghost to foretell his murder, which foreshadows Hamlet's descent into madness. This ignited a rage within him which led to the death of his uncle, mother, and himself.

the correct answer is: d

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .