romeo and juliet
The role of fate in 'Romeo and Juliet,' impacts on the overall tone and level of emotion evidenced in the ending. Fate is where people believe something happens for a reason and that their destiny is planned and everything is inevitable. Others however, believe the future is controlled by a person's own actions. It is evident that some passages in the prologue are symbols that Romeo and Juliet's death was fate, "The fearful passage of their death-marked love", "From forth the fatal lions of these two foes; A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life" . In 'Romeo and Juliet,' fate is one of the main themes, described as having power over many events in the play. While fate is blamed as the ultimate cause of the mishaps, the real explanation is rather the loss of self-control. The poor choices, or mishaps, directly contribute to the death of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet, for example, decided that she would take control of her own destiny by taking a potion that rendered her unconscious. She believed that it would remove her from the obligation of marrying Paris. Consequently, Juliet's rebellion against her own fate caused the death of Romeo and ultimately herself. Fate was the driving force
The death of Mercutio and Tybalt play a pinnacle event in the play, due to the deaths, Romeo is banished to Mantua. While Romeo is absent from Verona, midst all the chaos, Juliet is in great depression, which brings her with Friar Laurence. He is a friend of Romeo's and is the only person who is willing to take a risk in ceasing the rivalry between the two families. Juliet's father is a large disappointment, and practical view of Juliet's marriage consumes him and pushes his action to extreme limits. Friar Laurence concocts a plan for Juliet to render her unconscious and to create an illusion for her parent to think she is dead. Consequently it would allow her to be with Romeo for eternity without the parents interfering. Midst all the trouble, Romeo was sent a letter from Friar Laurence, the letter contained the explanation of the situation. Here it is seen how fate has misguided the letter and Romeo had no way of knowing that Juliet was alive. At first it seems as though Romeo missing the letter is pure misfortune, it is actually Friar Laurence fault for the letter not being directly delivered. Nevertheless the letter was delivered but perhaps fate planned that Romeo was never meant to get the letter. The final element of the supposed fate surrounding the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is in the Capulet's tomb when Juliet has just regained her consciousness. Unaware of the situation, Romeo is flooded with heartbreaking emotions, in seeing his beloved dead. Unwilling to accept a life without Juliet, Romeo decided to take his life. In this event is the greatest indicator of fate in the play. As Juliet has awoken she witnessed her beloved fall into eternal sleep. If there were the slightest change in the event of the death of Romeo and Juliet, for example if Juliet had woken earlier then the couple would have overcome their fate. The death and the truth was eventually revealed, and the two families exchange apologies and forgiveness and put all rivalry behind them, in honor of each other child. It is difficult to place all the blame upon poor choices or
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