Fate In Romeo And Juliet

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.

If the Titanic did not bump into the iceberg, a tragedy could have been avoided. Why did Hitler get elected? Maybe then the holocaust could have been avoided. If a plane flight was cancelled on 9/11, we might have avoided the deaths of thousands. Why did Romeo meet Juliet in the first place? Could Tybalt and Mercutio's deaths been avoided? Last but not least, why did Juliet wake up in time to see dying Romeo? What exactly ties all events together? Fate.

In the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, fate is utilized to control the actions of society throughout the play, ultimately causing the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, through foreshadowing, allusions, and symbolism. Shakespeare utilizes fate to foreshadow future events in the play. Before the party, where Romeo eventually would meet Juliet, he discusses a dream to Mercutio, “ Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night’s revels and expire the term/Of a despised life, closed in my breast/

Fate is a very important factor in Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare heavily portrays Romeo and Juliet’s relationship as fate. Everything that has happened with Romeo and Juliet is fate. Fate is something that, I believe, can’t be prevented. From the beginning, all the way through, and at the end, fate is still shown as a big part of the relationship of Romeo and Juliet.

William Shakespeare’s, ‘the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’ is a story full of unfortunate love. This is primarily because, both Romeo and Juliet are referred to as ‘star cross’d lovers’ due to the ill-fated chain of events that the young teenagers experience. From the beginning of the play in the prologue, the audience is already able to sense the tragedy that is inevitable. The destiny of the couple is shown through many ways, such as foreshadowing, chance and astrological concepts. Fate is almost seen as a powerful force drawing the lovers together, and is unquestionably the most responsible influence of the tragic outcome that Juliet and her Romeo must endure.

Fate has a role in many of great stories even if it occurs just a tiny bit that can change the whole outcome of the story. The role of fate happens a lot in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. From the start of the play in the Prolog the chorus states that there stars were crossed. That means that no matter what they do they cannot be together, and to make matters worse Romeo a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet. Those to family’s have an age old feud has coasted the lives of many people including Romeo and Juliet.

FATE KILLED ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo and Juliet’s tragedy was caused by fate. Throughout the story there were many examples of fate playing a big part during the story, which ultimately led to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet were born to be enemies, Romeo coming from the Montagues and Juliet coming from the Capulets, There families have been in a fued for years. Fate is most responsible for Romeo and Juliet's deaths because there families hate each other so they might of loved each other that doesn't mean their parents do which is demonstrated through Shakespeare’s use of repetition.

Intro of death, Romeo and Juliet being star-crossed lovers (having troubles after meeting each other), choices of illogical sense beat logical choices, and conclusion of the tragedy (how death, being star-crossed lovers, and choices impact the play as a whole) Fate has a great influence on the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, and is organized into three sets: star-crossed relationships, choices, and death. This is all evident in the text, it says in the Prologue, “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love and the continuance of their parents' rage, which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,” (Prologue.--.6-12).

In the movies that we watched, you could easily tell what the directors thought on perspective of fate. Through Mercutio and and Tybalt's death, the directors chose two different ways to show it. In one movie, they showed that it was obvious that there was no fate that took place during the scenes. Then in the other movie, they showed there was fate that was present during the scene. In the 1960 version of Romeo and Juliet, there showed there was a presence of fate in the scenes of the fight, but in the 1996 version, it showed that fate was not present during the scenes.

What was fate in Romeo and Juliet? It is something that is destine to happen and it is out of anyones controll like no matter what you or someone does its going to happen. When I read Romeo and Juliet, Fate was brought up alot Fate is the problem in the play Most of the charecters, like Romeo and Juliet could see how mean fate is. There was lots of evidence of fate throughout the entire play. Romeo is aware of fate that is going on.

One of the main characters, Romeo, cannot control his own destiny because he is banished from his hometown of Verona. When Juliet finds out that Romeo killed Tybalt, she is not sure who to side with until she realizes that “[Her] villain cousin would have killed [her] husband” (3.2). Romeo did not have a choice when he was fighting with Tybalt, he had to kill Tybalt or else Tybalt would have killed him. In this part of the play, Romeo could not control his own destiny or life because he didn’t have the chance to think of the consequences that would come with killing Tybalt. This was his only option.

Since the very beginning of the story, Romeo and Juliet’s fate is set to end tragically. The two lovers make many attempts throughout the book in order to be with each other. At the balcony scene, Romeo climbs over high walls of the Capulet household in order to meet Juliet; Juliet risks her life with a potion that fakes her death; and both marries each other the day after their encounter, despite their families’ hateful feud. However, their lives and romance are only games in the hands of fate, and are destined to bring together a tragic closure. “A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life/ Whose misadventured piteous overthrows/

The concepts of love at first sight, star crossed lovers, and unavoidable destiny all point to the presence of a higher power known as fate. Often, in literature, the story is impacted greatly by a character’s inevitable fate. While there may not always be an obvious display of destiny in a story, by reading in-between the lines one can find it almost anywhere. Likewise, when reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it’s easy to blame one of the other characters for their deaths, when in fact a higher power is at play. In Romeo and Juliet, the tragic deaths of Juliet and Romeo can be attributed to fate as a result of unexpected coincidences and unfortunate timing.

In Romeo and Juliet, the theme of fate can be identified throughout the play.  Fate is something that is beyond anyone’s own control.  One way that fate can be seen is the fact that Romeo Montague is in love with Juliet Capulet, despite the fact there is a long-standing feud between the two families.  “The feud between the lovers’ families represents the fate that Romeo and Juliet are powerless to overcome” (Atchity).  Romeo is conscious of fate; however, he claims that he is going to ignore fate when he says, “Is it even so?

In a society where people believe strongly in the ability to create their own destiny, a play about two young lovers who are “fated” to die for each other may appear outdated. Yet there is still much that is relevant to a modern audience in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. If we read the play in a certain way, fate can be seen not as a mysterious supernatural force but as something created by people for others. As students move from school into critical roles within a truly worldwide community, it is important for them to not only celebrate being masters of their own destiny but to also understand the responsibility of being people who have the power to determine the destiny of others. Viewed from this perspective, the true tragedy