Romeo and Juliet

One’s fortune, whether it be good or bad could be so extreme that it may mean the difference between love and death. The story of Romeo and Juliet’s forbidden love provides the perfect example for this. They face many misfortunes and even encounter a few deaths. Fortuna, Romeo’s paramour, follows the two lovers and haunts them until the end with misery at every step they take, eventually catching up with them Romeo and Juliet at the end.

Death, Juliet’s paramour, also aggravates Romeo and Juliet. He shadows the lovers, also until the end, and establishes the consequences that are yet to come for them through Tybalt and Mercutio’s deaths and eventually theirs if they continue there love.

Fortuna and Death cleverly work together to make Romeo and Juliet end their love and return to their true lovers, Fortuna being Romeo; Death being Juliet’s. Fortuna and Death bring misfortune and even death to Romeo and Juliet to hopefully end their love. Although Romeo and Juliet claim they have fallen in love, Fortuna becomes Romeo’s true lover; Death, Juliet’s.

Here, Death includes itself. It knows Romeo and Juliet can never be, therefore he has a chance to make their forbidden affair more interesting. Due to Romeo and Juliet’s doomed lov

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Romeo and Juliet cannot be together because of their family rivalry and if they happen to be together, death will be the outcome; however, if they cannot be together, Death will also be the outcome.

Fortuna leads Romeo into doing foolish misdeeds, such as murdering Tybalt, which he does not really mean to do and will later regret. She has now lost trust in Romeo, has had enough and is now ready to teach her love-blinded Romeo a lesson. From here on their misfortune begins. She reminds him when Friar Laurence’s letters do not reach him in Mantua and confusion rises up yet again. With Fortuna’s help, Romeo kills Tybalt. Romeo and Juliet are the perfect example that one’s fortune, good or bad, has the power to turn love into death. Because of their jealousies, Fortuna and Death bring bad fortunes to Romeo and Juliet’s lust and try their best to end the relationship with as much pain and misery as they can possibly inflict. When Juliet hears of this news, she “long[s] to die” (4. Fortuna also causes the death of Tybalt by Romeo. ) and he would be better off dead than without his love.

Death, in hopes that Romeo and Juliet will be caught, prepares himself to snatch the life from Romeo and even his fair, yet cheating mistress, Juliet.

Consequently, in the end, Romeo and Juliet’s bad fortunes lead to their deaths.

Fortuna also finds her place to enter when she realizes how risky it may be for a Capulet and a Montague to be involved.

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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