Foreshadow of the Sheets

William Shakespeare's Othello uses the literary technique of foreshadowing all throughout the play.  Desdemona not only alludes to her soon approaching death, but also to the setting in which she would die.  "If I do die before thee, prithee shroud me in one of those same sheets" (IV. iii. 23-24).  She is referring to her wedding sheets that she had previously asked Emilia to put on her bed.  It is lucky timing on Desdemona's part that she verbalized this wish just hours before she would, in fact, be killed.  After having read the rest of the play, I realized that this statement from Desdemona actually foreshadows three things.  It links to the fact that Desdemona's life was not only ended, but that it was ended on the very wedding sheets she wanted around her when she was dead.  It also, in a way, foreshadows Emilia's death.  Desdemona predicted she would die BEFORE Emilia, but Emilia soon followed her to the afterlife.  I found it ironic that both women were slain by their husbands, but both for very different reasons.