Fate In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

     In addition to reigning over their love lives, fate also causes the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. Near the end of the play, it appears Romeo and Juliet have a significant

The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays, published in 1597. It is a story about how, “A pair of star-cross’d lovers [Romeo and Juliet] take their lives…/The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love…” (Prologue of Romeo and Juliet, 6-9) as they are forbidden to be together due to a long lasting and ongoing feud between the Montague and Capulet families. Their deaths are the results of many characters’ actions and fate, and there is not one distinctive person that can be blam¬ed for the young lovers’ deaths. Friar Lawrence is not to blame for these deaths as fate played a major role in their demise, he warned Romeo of his impulsive and unwise decision making, and his intentions were to abolish the ongoing feud between the two families. Further examination will prove that Friar Lawrence is innocent and his intensions were far from the passing of the two lovers.

Everyone wants to marry the love of their life. Seeking the approval of our family and friends, we all look ahead fondly at the idea of living a long and happy life with our soulmate. Unfortunately, in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet this is not the way life played out.

Romeo and Juliet is the tragic story of two young lovers, longing to be together but kept apart by their families. They prove their love for each other by going behind their parents' backs to meet, to be together and to be married before meeting an untimely death. Deciding who is ultimately responsible for their tragic end can be difficult as there are so many people who play a significant role in their lives and who have an influence on how the play unfolds.

In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, a act that resulted in two cataclysmic deaths, is about a member of the Montague family and a member of the Capulet family that sought out love. Both sadly could never experience the love that they wanted. The two lovers that first created so much violent commotion, lastly bring peace to their families with their departure. Revenge, love, and a secluded marriage made the young couple grow up quickly. Fate is the reason for the deaths of the two star-crossed lovers because of poor choices and tragic timing.

Fate is a concept many people believe is set right when you are born. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet he talks a lot about the concept of fate. My essay is about how significant events have no effect on a person’s fate. In the prologue it states this “ A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life,” (Prologue, Line 6). That is now telling us no matter what happens in their lives, they will die to end the fued between the Montagues and the Capulets.

Most of Shakespeare's plays are conceived around a foundation in either tragedy or comedy, this polarity of themes allowing him to experiment with the full range of human emotions. Typically, an integral part of a Shakespearean tragedy is love, which is frustrated by a breakdown in order, or the character of the hero, due to some human limitation. The play Romeo and Juliet has all these typical characteristics. However, the resultant conclusion of events for the characters in this tragedy is adversely affected by the hands of fate, and not solely the product of human limitations. Fate in fact has a decisive role in the events of the play; it is a series of rapid coincidental events, which lead to the final tragedy.

Throughout Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, there is an adequate amount of evidence that shows fate is responsible for the untimely death of the two lovers. Even before the play begins, in the prologue, the Chorus tells the audience that the lovers are “star-cross’d”, which actually tells the audience straight away that the ending for Romeo and Juliet is not a good one. The characters in Romeo and Juliet talk about fate and the stars a lot in the play, accusing it for their misfortune. Some characters even foreshadow their death without even possibly knowing that this will happen. In Shakespeare’s time, they believed that fate ruled your life and that there was no way in avoiding it. Fate is an inevitable part in Romeo and Juliet’s lives and it plays a major role in the outcomes of all the characters.

Could it have been fate? Or could it have been the fault of Romeo and Juliet themselves? In the romantic play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lover fall in love. However it is not that simple. They go through many challenging obstacles and face many choices eventually leading to both of their ultimate deaths. Now, back to the question, was it fate, or was it their own fault? The fate seem to outweigh the human stupidity factors factors by many. But, I believe it all depends on what the reader believes. What I’m saying is that no matter what someone thinks, human error will always be the cause. What people call fate is merely a coincidence of events and timing with a label one it “Fate”. Overall there are three main examples from the play that show us how human error, coincidence, and misconception was at hand, not fate.

Romeo and Juliet, the story of two ill-fated lovers. In Romeo and Juliet, there are some accidents and bad choices, but ill-fate ultimately brings about the downfall of Romeo and Juliet because Mercutio proclaims, "a plague on both your houses." , Romeo has a bad feeling before going to the party, and Romeo's dream that Juliet finds him dead. However others might say that Romeo and Juliet is mainly poor choices, for example Romeo only goes to the ball because he sees Rosaline's name on the list.

Was it fate for Romeo and Juliet? Or Not? In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the main characters Romeo and Juliet lose their lives because of their love for one another. Their families suffer from a lasting conflict which prevents the lovers from being together. Fate had a greater impact on the characters than personal choice.

As Albert Einstein once said, “...life and death flow into one, and there is [no] destiny; only Being.” Even somewhere such as an Elizabethan play can be an example of this philosophy. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare proves the absence of fate in the main characters’ love lives, familial relations, and deaths.

Fate in Rome and Juliet ‘’What must be shall happen’’ (Rome and Juliet Act 4 Scene 1). In the play Romeo and Juliet a tale of two ‘’Star-crossed lovers’’, have to deal with adversity to be together. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, fate decides the outcome of the play, as in real life. In this text decides means ‘’ to determined what will happen’’.

In 1595, William Shakespeare, the most eminent and the greatest writer in the English language, wrote one of the best pieces of literature ever created, Romeo and Juliet. In his play, Shakespeare argues about how fate is inevitable and how nothing can escape its wrath. Through foreshadowing in the prologue, in the names of the characters, and in various scenes of the play, William Shakespeare develops the theme of fate throughout the play Romeo and Juliet. To find out one way how fate is developed in Romeo and Juliet, you simply have to scroll over to the prologue of the play.

The theme of Fate is one of the most significant themes in Romeo and Juliet. It is because of fate that all events in the play occur, and it is fate that leads to the tragic ending of the story. Throughout the play, many instances of fate are very significant and I will be discussing some of these instances from the Prologue, Act V and Act I. The Prologue tells us the background of the story, and the first illustration of fate can be seen here. Romeo and Juliet’s love is called, “death-marked love”, which means that their fate is against them.