Fate in Romeo and Juliet

Do you believe in fate? To answer the question, you must first have a correct idea of what fate is.

A definition of fate would be the power that is supposed to settle ahead of time how things will

happen. Could there be such a power that rules our lives, and if so, why? Romeo and Juliet, the

two young lovers in William Shakespeare' s Romeo and Juliet, ended up becoming a large part of

what could be called "fate". Fate seemed to control their lives and force them together, becoming

a large part of their love, and the ending of their parent's hatred. Fate became the ultimate control

power in this play, and plays a large part in modern everyday life, even if we don't recognize it.

Maybe we don't recognize it because we choose not to, or don't have faith like we used to, but

the fact remains that fate controls what we do throughout all of our lives.

A large part of the beliefs for both Romeo and Juliet involve fate. They believed in the stars, and

that their actions weren't always their own. Romeo, for example, 1.4.115-120, he says, "Some

consequence yet hanging in the stars...by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that ha

. . .
While Romeo babbled on about his life with

Benvolio, his cousin and kinsmen, Romeo bumped into this servant who asked him to read the

list, with Rosaline's name, which got Romeo to agree to go after the servant invited them.

Believing in fate and trusting dreams such as these is believing in the idea that a stronger power

and force controls us, and in the case of such a strong love as the love between Romeo and Juliet,

that there is one person out there destined for everyone.

The peace may have been the final part in this grand scheme which seems so perfectly plotted,

bringing together two lovers and two families full of hate. What happens happens, why fight it? We all end

up were ever fate wants us, one way or another.

In the end, the hatred was ended, and their love was as true as it could have been. It's a constant balance that keeps working throughout life

and nature which we can't stop. 159, "A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents. The Prince was fed up with them and their brawls, such as on

1. 55, she says, "Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a

tomb. Things happen

because of fate, and actions happen because of things. We're

all sort of like the puppets below the puppeteer.

During this part of the play, after Romeo has killed Paris and himself but before Juliet has done

the same, the Friar comes rushing in, trying to persuade Juliet out of the tomb before more arrive. It

did this by starting with a few simple emotions and actions.

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