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Fate In Romeo And Juliet Essay

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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet died and this is because of fate. Why? Because of all the things that have happened in the play could not of happened, but they did and if one of those small things did not happen then they might not have died. Or if the servant could not read then he might not have even met Juliet in the first place, or if the very poor apothecary was not poor he would not have sold him the poison. There's a lot of things that led up to it and this is because of fate, and not human error. If Romeo had waited a couple more minutes on drinking the poison and Juliet could have woken up. If Friar Laurence could have gotten there in time and not been tripping over all of the graves or even if the letter had gotten to him in time he would not have been in …show more content…

The first acts of fate is the servant that could not read. This is because if he could have read then Romeo might not have even met Juliet in the first place. the servant said “find them out whose names are written here”(line 38 Act 1 Scene 2 shakespeare), and that means that he cannot read the names that are on the list and he wanted Romeo and Mercutio to help him. Romeo and Mercutio took advantage of that and went to the Capulets party. If you could have read Romeo and Juliet will not die. Then if the apothecary was not poor then he would not have sold him the poison and he would not have died. If the Apothecary was rich then he would not have sold them the poison and Romeo and Juliet would not have died. “ my poverty but not my will consents”(line 75 scene 1 act 4 shakespeare).This means if he was not poor he would not have done this but he is poor so he needs the money to eat and survive so he had to sell him the poison.The fate of this is that he was poor and he cannot control that.This is not human error because it is his choice to cell and him the poison and that is because of fate. Finally, one of the most important acts of fate is that friar John that caught up and

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