Star-Crossed Lovers In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

On the contrary, fate also shreds Romeo and Juliet’s love with death and melancholy. The two have just been married, and they are at the apex of their love. Before they could even have a proper honeymoon, Tybalt comes with bad intentions. He feels that Romeo has insulted the Capulets by coming to their party. Tybalt ends up killing Mercutio, one of Romeo’s dearest friends, in a fit of rage. Romeo is thirsty for revenge and cannot sit back after his friend has just been killed so he hunts down Tybalt and murders him without thinking of the consequences. He instantly realizes the major flaw in what he has just done when he cries, “O I am fortune’s fool!” (125) Tybalt’s violent nature, which eventually causes his death, is simply a part of fate taking its course. Another instance where fate contributes to ending Romeo’s love with Juliet is when Romeo screams, “Then I deny you stars!” (213) He believes that Juliet is dead and wants to reject his fate by killing himself to be with her in death, but she is not dead. It is incredibly tragic for Juliet when she wakes up from her long sleep to

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

Many events have happened to the “star-crossed lovers,” before Juliet’s alleged death, and none of the events were caused upon themselves. Waters also articulates the thought of fate controlling the lives of Romeo and Juliet, and how Romeo knows his fate has been ill-determined by the stars. At the start of Shakespeare’s play he reveals the plot to the play, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life:/whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows/doth with their death bury their parents’ strife” (I.i.5-8). From the very beginning the reader already knows that the two lovers are doomed by fate to their death, which will resolve the families ongoing feud. Shakespeare uses “To the degree that the lovers are ‘star-cross’d’ and their love is ‘death-marked’” (Waters). “Star-cross’d lovers,” are two lovers who are ill-fated by the stars, and because they are lovers, their love has been cursed with

     Another example of how fate plays a role in the play is when Romeo must fight Tybalt after Mercutio’s death. Romeo is in Verona after seeing his best friend, Mercutio, die at the hands of Tybalt. Romeo says that he has to kill Tybalt because Tybalt has slain Mercutio. Romeo is overcome with rage and tries to do to Tybalt, what Tybalt had done to Mercutio. “This days black fate on mo days doth depend; this but begins the woe that others must end.” (III, 1, 126-127). Romeo says that fate has “blackened” the day and he must do something that he senses will end in tragedy. Romeo believes that he has to do this but he knows that the end of it will come back to haunt him. He realizes that this only begins the tragedy that is set upon him. He knows that by killing Tybalt others will die to bring peace. This shows that fate is constantly

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we meet the characters and how their actions led to a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet met, end up falling in love, and – since both cannot dream of living without the other – take their lives. While the play ends in a tragic death for both characters, it was their own reckless decisions; though others might believe that it was destiny that played a large role in the lovers’ downfall. However, the majority of the text evidence points to them making their own choices leading to their demise.

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

Fate is something that Romeo and Juliet can not escape in the play no matter how hard they try.When talking about Fate in the story the stars are referenced by the characters to explain coincidences that may happen to them . Shakespeare makes the fate of the star-cross’d lovers story clear from the very beginning by stating in the prologue of Act I “The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love”. (DBQ:Project, 2013) When both characters discover the others death, even if it is at different times they both decide to blame Fate. Romeo references the stars once again because he did not want to believe that a higher power/Fate would take Juliet away from him. Juliet looks to Friar Lawrence to know Romeo is dead and he tells Juliet “A greater power than we can contradict”. (DBQ:Project, 2013) He led Juliet to believe that Fate was also to blame for her husband Romeo’s death. Fate was not one of the characters that caused as much harm as the other two, but was the most blameable character for others in the play.

So we’ve reached Act III of Romeo and Juliet, and this is when things start going wrong for our “star-crossed lovers”. Fortunes begin to decline for our characters, first with Mercutio and Tybalt’s slaughter, then Romeo’s banishment, and finally Capulets resolve to marry Juliet to Paris. It’s just human nature that we feel bad for the couple, and we abandon blame on them, instead blaming the events on fate.

Star-crossed lovers are partners whose love lives are destined to fail due to fate. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, it is said that two star-crossed lovers are initially unable to be together since their families have an ancient, long-term feud. With this prolonged hatred towards each other, anyone from the Montague and Capulet families cannot be together. However, Romeo and Juliet attempt to bypass this because of their strong and intense love for each other. By the end of the play, Romeo and Juliet have committed suicide. Romeo and Juliet’s passing did not happen coincidentally. Although there may be many people to blame for this, the blame of the fall of Romeo and Juliet is most likely Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence

From the very beginning of the play (in the prologue), Shakespeare begins to create a sense of sympathy for Romeo and Juliet. Here, the audience is told that these two lovers are ‘star cross’d’ - meaning that their love goes against the stars and is therefore doomed to end in disaster. As a

¨Star crossed lovers¨ is a phrase referring to two lovers whose destiny or fate is misfortune, and this happens to be the case in the play, ¨Romeo and Juliet,¨ by William Shakespeare. Predetermined destiny is the belief that the future is already determined, and the predetermined destiny of the star crossed lovers is just simply unavoidable. Romeo and Juliet are both very young adults who come from wealthy households that share much hatred for each other. Romeo being from the Montague household, and Juliet being from the Capulet household. Romeo and Juliet fall in love at a feast of her father’s, and arrange a hidden marriage which is ill-fated from the start, which displays the sorrow of their saddening predetermined destiny.

A pair of star cross’d lovers take their life. From the prologue Shakespeare tells us Romeo and Juliet both die. The stars are against their love. At the start of the Capulet party, Romeo already foreshadows some consequence yet hanging in the stars. When he meets Juliet, the two are destined for peril no matter what. The feud had separated their love to such hate, their love was something impossible. The Friar tried to keep them both alive and happy. He married the two to make them happy, but also prevented Juliet from committing suicide, and his plan to use the sleep potion was actually a very tactical way to get out of the situation. No one with such intelligence could predict the unhappy fortune that would occur. The unsent letter. When

William Shakespeare’s playwright Romeo and Juliet reveals the tale of ‘star-crossed lovers’ believed to be wistfully riven from the compelling force of fate. Perhaps Shakespeare used fate as an intention to persuade the audience the concept was the reasoning to their “death-marked love”. However, like the two young lovers, multiple characters portrayed innumerable rash and care-free decisions that played part to result in the young lovers impending doom.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It’s a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved,” quoted by William Jennings Bryan. One of the most debated questions in history is whether our lives are ruled by fate or by own choice. William Shakespeare brings this question into play in his production Romeo and Juliet. Although fate does seam to be ruling over every situation, I believe that choice has more to do with this story then it’s really credited to. Even in the opening lines, this play drills into your head the inevitable outcome of the two lover’s deaths. When the chorus uses the phrase Star crossed lovers (I, 1,6) it clearly shows William Shakespeare’s thoughts on what killed Romeo and Juliet. This

Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed lovers, or a pair of lovers whose relationship is cursed to fail because of the alignment in the stars. In other words, you can say that fate is responsible for Romeo’s and Juliet’s death. The moment that Romeo and Juliet met was that start of it all. Romeo and Benvolio only knew about the Capulets’ party because a serving man had mistaken them for Capulets. (Act 1; Scene 2) But did they have to go to the party? No. Romeo only went because Benvolio persuaded him as a way to show that there are more beautiful women than Rosaline. Romeo even stated “Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / shall bitterly begin his fearful date” on the way to the Capulets. (Act 1; Scene 4) Translating into the modern text, Romeo means he has a feeling that the party will be the start of something bad that will end with his death. This is foreshadowing and it can be implied that Romeo is unknowingly talking about him meeting Juliet.