ancient grudge brakes to new mutiny, / Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. /

From forth the fatal lions of these foes / A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; /

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows / Doth with their death bury their parent's

strife. / The fearful passage of their death-marked love, / And the continuance of their

parent's rage, / Which, but their children's end, naught could remove..." -The Prologue,

Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare).

Fate plays a major role in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The prologue describes

Romeo's and Juliet's fate, which we see come up many times later on in the play.

Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet unwittingly realize they cannot exist in such

reality and that a tragic fate awaits them. The two families, the Montagues and the

Capulets continue being rivals all the way to the end of the play until the inevitable

In the play, there are many pieces of evidence that further present the prologue's sad

foretold reality. Even as early as the fi

My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce though us blest

withdraw; but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet; convert to bitt'rest gall." (I, vi,

prove to be a tragic one indeed. The most fate driven event in the tragedy of Romeo

So fearful were they if infection.

Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

said by Montague, which is "Unless good council may the cause remove" (I, i, 140), also

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