Untamed destiny In the play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare demonstrates how loves impact can effect one’s thoughts, feelings and actions. He also gives insight on how death and emotional attachment can take a turn for the worse and affect peoples’ fate as a result. As seen in the emotional character of Juliet and the dramatic falling action. Shakespeare utilizes Juliet and the falling action to further depict how fate and destiny can be manipulated depending on fatal encounters with love. Juliet falls victim to loving Romeo and she tweaks her fate because she becomes emotionally attached and would do anything to be with him. She’s in love with Romeo and her actions depicts the feelings she has for him. Juliet’s falling more and more
When Juliet finds out that Tybalt has been killed and Romeo is in exile, for killing Tybalt, Juliet feels both passionate about Romeo and disappointed in both Romeo and herself, which reveal her inner struggle. In Act 3, Juliet’s Nurse comes back with this news that Tybalt is dead and that Romeo is such an awful person for killing him. Juliet fights back at the Nurse, and herself, for speaking bad about Romeo. She claims, ““Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband.” (3.2.99-101). This shows that Juliet is passionate about Romeo, because first of all, she says that she was wrong to say bad things about her husband.
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.
He is heartbroken that Rosaline does not return the love he has for her and prone to becoming fond of another woman. As shown in Act 1 of the play, fate manipulates Romeo and Juliet into a lovesick relationship that can only lead to a very tragic end.
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.
In love, in hate, your actions ruled by your emotions believing whole heartedly in them and yet tragedy comes, your disregard for the life you were meant to lead buries you, was it worth it? Romeo and Juliet's belief in their love is why they didn’t regret the outcome. Romeo and Juliet knew their fate and ignored it the repercussions tremendous but not unexpected. The consequences are worth your actions if you believe in your actions.
In the play of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, William Shakespeare explores the idea of fate, through the characters experiences. The play was taken place during the Elizabethan Era where the social norms were completely different to those today and the idea of fate was well and truly believed by the society. Shakespeare incorporates this concept of fate in different ways, he makes references to celestial bodies, employs premonitions and orchestrates events where Romeo and Juliet have no prior knowledge off. He introduces the two young lovers as ‘star-crossed’, which means their relationship is destined to end in tragedy and this is supported by events that occur in the play. Specific events
Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story written by William Shakespeare, in the Elizabethan era of English history. The work tells of the fatal attraction between Romeo and Juliet, how they met and why, their falling in love and their ultimate sacrifice for each other’s love, their actual lives. Fate has complete control, is a theme that is riddled throughout the text written by Shakespeare. It is essentially pointing out the view that everything we do or will, is at the mercy of fate, and whatever we do to counteract it, fate still holds the final judgement over our lives. This theme is also prevalent in cinematic codes written into both the visual representations of the Shakespearean love story by Franco Zefirelli and Baz Luhrmann. Two
By foretelling the audience that Romeo and Juliet’s demises are destined because of their misfortune, Shakespeare introduces that the power of fate governs people’s lives. Immediately the dramatic irony is revealed when the reader is positioned as a god-like, omnipotent figure from the outset knowing Romeo and Juliet’s “piteous overthrows”. Shakespeare use of diction through the words “piteous overthrows” to describe the lovers’ fatal end, arouses the audience to develop a sense of pity and condolence for their mishap. By declaring the involvement of fate in the event yet to occur, Shakespeare amplifies the tension and establishes the disparity between fate and free
In the play, Romeo and Juliet, the author, William Shakespeare, seems to strongly believe that the protagonists’ lives are specifically molded by the impact of fate. Throughout the story, Shakespeare helps readers to see just how fate effects both Juliet and Romeo. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare projects the idea of fate to guide two lovers through the difficulties in their lives by portraying the feuding families into which they were unfortunately born and the seemingly predestined timing of events throughout the story.
It is numerously expressed through the play that fate intervenes multiple times and makes the plot completely change in direction. It is quite clear that fate plays an undeniable part in the story by using different points. Points such as the role of women at the time,love vs lust, and the role of fate and destiny. In William Shakesperare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, fate shows itself to be a key point in the play, causing many shifts in the plot and building central themes. One of the keys themes or subjects that is touched throughout the play is the role of women at the time.
“Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars!”(Rom 5.1. 24). The characters in Romeo and Juliet believe that the stars, or fate is against them. Throughout the play the two protagonists rushed into decisions or did not think about the consequences. Romeo and Juliet’s actions caused their own troubles rather than the blamed fate.
Fate, or sometimes called destiny, is the predetermined course of events controlled by a supernatural power. Fate makes events inevitable and unavoidable. Romeo and Juliet takes place in the Elizabethan era, a time when people believed that fate controlled people's lives and portrays a concept of astrological fate. This is represented by a wheel of fortune. Everybody was on the wheel, and their lives could be completely changed a simple rotation of the wheel.
Looking up into the sky on a clear night, you should be able to see thousands of dazzling stars shining against the midnight blue. You might be in awe, amazed, or simply at peace, but have you ever thought about how these little beauties might take away your breath in more than one way? “Thank your lucky stars!” you might have heard someone say. This simple expression meant more than everything to the characters in Romeo and Juliet, for they believed their fate was truly written in the stars.
Fate is always referred as the stars, immovable, unwavering, and nonvolatile. People who believe in fate think it’s predetermined and any outcomes are up to destiny. Romeo in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare puts all the blame on fate, but his actions could have prevented their catastrophic end. Both Romeo and Juliet claim that their lives were governed by the jurisdiction of fate.. Some unexpected twists and turns misguided them to each other and disaster. Although fate might slightly contribute to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, it was their choices that ultimately lead them to their demise.
Fate affects the story by having Romeo and Juliet meet as well as making them die; It affects them in this way because they believe in fate so they don’t believe they can change what is to come. Romeo’s actions were based off of what he chose to do not because some higher being told him to do it. He chose to continue seeing Juliet, he chose to buy the poison, and he chose to kill himself with the potion. Juliet made all of her decisions on her own and they both blamed their deaths on