Henry Miller, a 20th-century American writer, once said that “We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”(Miller). Miller is linked a person’s free will to their fate. In Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters have a set fate from the very beginning. The play is about two feuding families, the Montagues, and the Capulets. Juliet is a Capulet and Romeo is a Montague. Juliet and Romeo are two teenagers that decided to get married. Neither of their families knows, because of these Capulet arranges for Juliet to marry Paris. In the end, Romeo and Juliet end up killing themselves. The main device used in the play is character. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses …show more content…
Romeo is free will only bring upon his fate, to die. Juliet is married to Romeo, however, her father, Capulet, does not know. Capulet arranges for Juliet to marry Paris. Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence because she does not wish to betray her husband, but must also marry Paris. He gives her a vial that contains a potion that will make it seem as if she is dead, but in fact, she will be practically asleep for 42 hours. She receives the vial and contemplates whether or not to use it. In contemplation, she pleads for “the heavens to smile upon my state”(4.3.4, Shakespeare). She is afraid and is given a sense that she is frail, though this language.She pleads with God to help her to go through what must be done. She asks for God to change her fate in such a way that she will live to see Romeo again. The word “heavens” can also be taken as fate itself, in this case, she is pleading that her fate is a pleasant one, one where she is happy. Juliet drinks the potion, everyone now assumes she is dead. Romeo learns of her death. He then wants goes to her tomb. He goes off to an apothecary to purchase a poison. He does this because he wishes to “defy you stars!” (5.1.24, Shakespeare). Again the stars are fate, and Romeo thinks he is defying fate by dying. It is not very clear but can be seen that Romeo is not someone who loves lightly. He hears his love has died and all he wants to do is be reunited with her. Through this, the reader can see that Romeo is a passionate
“For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (Shakespeare, 5.3.309-310). The actions of the characters in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet affect Romeo and Juliet’s unfortunate fate. Lord Capulet affects their fate by doing what he thinks is best. Friar Lawrence affects Romeo and Juliet’s fate by organizing the plans of their marriage and Juliet’s fake death. Romeo and Juliet affect their own fate by ordering Friar Lawrence to marry them and then killing themselves. All of the characters reasons are mainly out of selfishness.
In William Shakespeare's tragic play Romeo and Juliet, there are four quotes about fate and choice. The characters in the play choose their own fate, it happens because of their choices or actions. First, in the beginning of the play Romeo and Juliet are referred to as 'a pair of star-crossed lovers' (Romeo and Juliet, Prologue). Second, Romeo explains to Mercutio how he has a dream that if he goes to the Montague party he will die, but Romeo chooses to go to the party anyway. Third, Romeo kills Tybalt right after his marriage to Juliet. Fourth, Romeo decides to commit suicide because he hears of Juliet's death.
In Shakespearse’s classic play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers created one of the most notorious tragedies known to man. Romeo and Juliet met as an act of a single force known as fate. Fate is the idea used to describe a circumstance when it is meant to happen; fate is the living body responsible for controlling everything, except the decisions you personally make.
Fate, for better or worse, interrupts everyone’s daily life, whether he/she chooses to acknowledge it or not. Thinking about fate conjures up different feelings for different people; some people believe strongly in it, some people think of fate as ridiculous, and some do not care one way or the other. However, in many instances, such as in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, far too many coincidences occur to be strictly coincidental. Fate creates a powerful effect throughout the entire play, starting in the prologue, continuing as Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love, and tragically ending in the lovers’ deaths.
Fate is a hidden, but unavoidable force that leads to certain consequences in people’s lives. The theme of fate plays a crucial role in the main characters of the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet share a destiny that dooms them to tragic deaths immediately after the exchange of their zealous love. Despite their resolute attempts to challenge their destiny, the lovers still succumb to the inexorable powers of fate. In the Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet, the principle of fate propels the lovers together with infatuation, tears them apart through a bitter demise, yet, ensures peace in Verona for many future generations.
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.
In the book Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare, fate plays a large role in moving the plot along. It does this by bringing people together. Fate also plays a role in a couple people’s deaths, including the main characters, Romeo and Juliet.
In the play, Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, is about two “star crossed” lovers who are destined to end in a tragic accident. Fate is the path that leads to the future and cannot be altered no matter the outcome. Set in Shakespearean time, fate was believed to be in control of people’s lives. The fact that Romeo and Juliet would never live a peaceful life, none of the tragedies would have not taken place if they had not met. In the prologue of the play, Shakespeare outlines that “two star’d crossed lovers take their life”. This foreshadowing creates the sense that fate shall claim superiority. The powerful nature of Romeo
In William Shakespeare’s play, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, fate plays one of the largest roles in the plot. In order to understand how fate plays a role it is important to examine how the story begins, when Romeo meets Juliet, and when Romeo fights Tybalt after Tybalt kills Mercutio.
this pair of lovers are meant to be together and it is written in the
Fate has a huge roll in many books, movies, and plays such as The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. The short has a recurrence of fate for the couple Romeo and Juliet pointing them towards death if they do not part. Shakespeare has multiple characters throughout out his play including the two lovers predict this fate of utter death, meantime they attempt the change the fate they are given, but it seems to always catch back up with them. Romeo predicts his fate many times throughout the play making it known to the audience that his path leads to death. Early on Romeo seems to realize his fate is “some vile forfeit of untimely death”(1.4.118).
Some people may not believe that destiny is something that truthfully exists in the world. These people doubt that there is anything that is actually meant to be, or supposed to happen, thinking that there is always a way around troubling predicaments, knowing that it is not necessary to turn out just one certain way. They trust that whatever occurs in their lives comes as a result of the decisions that they make with their own free will. Others believe that whatever happens during the course of their lives is inevitable and every event is laid out before them like a road map to life, in other words, fate. William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet has fate as an exceptionally crucial element which makes fate as important as any
There are no spoiler alerts needed for William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare himself tells us in the Prologue that the eponymous couple is destined for tragedy: “A pair of star cross’d lovers take their life” (Prologue) (paragraph 1) . During the time when Romeo and Juliet was written, people strongly believed in fate, and that individual choices did not matter because their future was already written in the stars. Shakespeare mentions this theme of fate and predetermination throughout the play, as it pertains to Romeo’s and Juliet’s love, friends, and their ultimate deaths. Their destiny was set on an unchangeable course.
Some people do not believe that fate is something that actually exists in the world. Others of course, believe that every event is predestined to be laid out before them like a guide; or in other words, fate. William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet” portrays fate as an extremely crucial force. Fate seemed to control both Romeo and Juliet’s lives, by forcing them together, becoming a great influence on their love, and the ending of their parent’s great feud. But this fate also plays a crucial role to a not so happy ending as well.
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.