Fortune's Fool In Romeo And Juliet

In times of despair destiny was always to blame for making insane decisions. After Just killing Tybalt, Romeo worryingly tells Benvolio, “O, I am fortune’s fool!” (Shakespeare 3.1.128). Since Tybalt kills Mercutio; Romeo, in a moment of great desperation, kills Tybalt as a result of revenge. This goes to show that fate made Romeo weak and distressed, leading him to make an irrational decision of killing his wife’s cousin, Tybalt, making him look like a fool and causing great consequences. Subsequent to finding out that Juliet was dead, Romeo ragingly screams to the stars, “ Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!” (Shakespeare 5.7.24). This proves how in moments of indignant situations, people make ridiculous choices. In Romeo’s case he challenges the almighty fate itself. After receiving the potion, Juliet realizes she must drink it. She doubts herself but right before taking it she says, “ What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married tomorrow morning?

     In addition to reigning over their love lives, fate also causes the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. Near the end of the play, it appears Romeo and Juliet have a significant

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

Fate was the fundamental factor that led to the suicides of Romeo and Juliet. It is present throughout the entire play, setting the scene for the tragic events to take place. Two scenarios which show that fate played an imperative role in Romeo and Juliet’s deaths are when Romeo read the ball invite which was addressed to someone else and when Friar John had to stop while delivering Friar Lawrence’s message resulting in Balthasar reaching Romeo first. The first scenario is seen in the text where a servant of the Capulet family

Romeo and Juliet who were “star cross’d lovers “, meaning that the two were chosen by fate to be together. Even though they were chosen by the stars, Shakespeare says that they were “death mark’d”, implying that the only way to preserve their love was in the afterlife. Many tragedies that occurred were intended to happen, for instance, when Tybalt was killed by Romeo. Shakespeare creates the character Tybalt to refer to him as “Fortunes fool”, thus meaning he is merely just a puppet being toyed by fate. But before anyone was massacred, fate already had arranged Romeo and Juliet’s marriage to go downhill when Lord Capulet decided for Juliet to marry Paris.

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.

Many people blame fate for the death of Romeo and Juliet. One reason being that Romeo and Juliet’s meeting at the party was determined by fate. However, Romeo went to the party because of love, and he wanted to see if he could find some else better than Rosaline. He saw Juliet and found a new love. Therefore, love is a stronger competitor than fate for their meeting. Moreover, another argument is that the prologue calls Romeo and Juliet “star-crossed lovers”, also known as lovers who are doomed because of outside forces (such as fate). While Romeo and Juliet may have had tough circumstances regarding their relationship, their doom was their own decision. They killed themselves in the name of love, not because of chance or

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, many characters meet their tragic end as a result of a plethora of factors, from old rivalries to new love. It is a tragic story of two lovers, destined to complete each other, but also to end a bitter feud through their deaths (Prologue.3-6). However, if the blame had to be ascribed to one person in particular, that person would be Romeo Montague. Throughout the play, Shakespeare showcases Romeo’s irrationality and poor decision making, leading to the gruesome deaths of his loved ones. Romeo is most to blame for the tragic slew of deaths because he is oblivious, quick to act, and too urgent in his relationship.

Romeo is the one of the only characters in this play that would kill himself because he is too romantic. At the beginning of the balcony scene Romeo says when, hiding in the Capulet orchard after the feast, he sees Juliet leaning out of a high window. Even though it was late at night, Juliet’s beauty makes Romeo imagine that she is the sun, "transforming the darkness into daylight.” Romeo on the other hand personifies the moon, calling it “sick and pale with grief”, and that Juliet, the sun, is “far brighter and more beautiful.” Romeo then compares Juliet to the stars, claiming that she “eclipses the stars as daylight overpowers a lamp”and that her eyes alone “shine so bright that they will convince the birds to sing at night as if it were day.”

“O, I am fortune’s fool!” (Rom. 3.1.14). Romeo says this line in shock as he realizes that he killed Tybalt. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, star crossed lovers are faced with the hardest challenge in life, and fate is not on their side. Fate is most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

“Romeo and Juliet” is a dramatic romance story that is full of love, hate, secrets, and lies. In Romeo and Juliet, the Capulets and the Montagues have a rivalry, a death penalty placed by the prince is threatened if the families have another brawl. At a Capulet party, Romeo and his friend, Mercutio sneak in, and he meets Juliet. They fall in love, and become married in secret, but Juliet is forced by her father to marry Paris after Romeo killed Tybalt, who is Juliets cousin. To avoid marrying Paris, Juliet fakes her death and Romeo thinks Juliet is honestly dead. He goes to her tomb and drink a potion that killed him almost instantly.When Juliet wakes up, she actually kills herself over the grief over Romeo being dead. In William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet”, Friar Lawrence is ultimately to blame for the deaths of the protagonists, by cause of Friar encouraged them to secure their love, he neglected to inform both parties if his plan to fake Juliet’s death, and he left Juliet when she was extremely emotional.

From fate representing Romeo and Juliet's encounter, to their love, and finally representing their untimely death, fate and fortune has been a contributing factor towards all the tragedies in Shakespeare's play, possibly being the main clause. Throughout the play, several references of fate and the stars are mentioned when characters show terrible grief and heart break. For example, mere seconds after Romeo slew Tybalt in a blind fit of rage, he exclaimed, "O, I am fortune's fool." He is saying that he is being controlled and forced to do things not in his control to change, and that he is a victim of circumstance (which in this case is fate). In which, he is. Time and time again it seems that Romeo and Juliet's love is in fact dependent on fate and fortune, since in the Prologue itself mentions that "...their death bury their parents' strife." It seems that even from the beginning, Romeo and Juliet were destined to die. No matter what they tried, and no matter how hard they wanted to stay together, fate always found a way to ruin their plans. Just after they get married, Romeo just so happens to run into Tybalt and Mercutio. Just after the couple consummated, Juliet was to be married to Paris on Thursday. Just after Friar Lawrence made a plan to reunite Romeo and Juliet, the wedding of Juliet and Paris moved one day forward! The letter

In the very first act of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare clearly states that the play is controlled by fate. In the prologue, it states that "a pair of star-cross 'd lovers take their life" (I. Prologue. 5-6). Shakespeare refers to them as star-crossed lovers because they are doomed due to the position of the planets when they were born. In other words, he is saying that these two lovers will die because of fate and will have no way of preventing it. Later in that act, shortly after meeting Juliet, Romeo says,

The fact that Romeo and Juliet chose to kill themselves in the end implies that fate had nothing to do with their deaths. They had to make the decisions themselves of whether or not they wanted to live without each other. When Romeo defies the stars he entails that fate has no control over him now and he will make sure that he kills himself, therefore nothing will get in his way. Romeo’s love for Juliet is shown through his quick decision making and actions, and the audience figures out that fate has nothing to do with their deaths.

Even though his love for Juliet is very strong and authentic, transitioning from initially being spiritual to intense passionate love, it is still unable to reach fruition. At the end of Act 3 Scene 1, having impulsively killed Tybalt, Romeo blames his impulsive behaviour on fate, exclaiming ‘O, I am fortune’s fool’, presenting characteristics of Aristotle’s tragic hero. The alliteration of ‘fortune's fool’ and sudden shift from Romeo confidently claiming that the fight ‘shall determine that’ presents Romeo’s vulnerability , with ‘fool’ suggesting Romeo feeling he was was misled and is unlucky. Seeing Romeo blame his actions on fate, the audience may question earlier evidences of developing maturity and even though the Elizabethan audience would likely believe that fate significantly dictates the course of our life, Shakespeare's exploring the extent to which it does so heightens the audience’s pity towards Romeo and his predestined tragic