"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
             A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;" (Prologue)
             In the prologue, Shakespeare decides to tell the audience that two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, are going to die, and in telling us so, seals their fate. Yet, the concept of fate is throughout the play, and with the lovers being, "star-crossed," (Prologue) indicates that fate is against them. In the end, fate is the means death for not only the lovers, but Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, and Lady Montague.
             All the events lead into one another, resulting in a huge snowball of events, what set this off in the first place was the Capulet servant, who did not know how to read, stumbles upon Romeo and Benvolio, and asks Romeo to read the list of people that are invited to the party that his master, Lord Capulet is holding. It is fate that brings the trio together, and it is fate that Rosaline is going to the party too, but this may not the only reason.
             The characters throughout the play are always saying things to tempt fate, or realize that fate is toying with them. The most important come from Romeo, just before he and his friends gate crash the party, realizes this and says two things, "I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars," ( Act I, Scene 4, Lines 106-107) and, "But He that hath steerage of my course Direct my sail!" (Act I, Scene 4, Lines 112-113) These two lines mean that, he feels that something is waiting to happen and whatever power that has control of his destiny, point it in the right direction. In the second line, Romeo compares himself to a ship at sea, and God or fate is the wind, yet later his words are not as gentle.
             "Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars," (Act III, Scene 2, Lines 21-22)When Juliet says this it is if she dies to kill Romeo and make him be the night, this could h
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