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 love, Death, with the help of Fortuna, will succeed in his task to get back his true lover, along with Fortuna's also.
             Fortuna also finds her place to enter when she realizes how risky it may be for a Capulet and a Montague to be involved. It is unfortunate that these two lovers come from rival families. If either one of them had "[been] some other name" (2.2.42.) then perhaps their destinies would have not been so misfortunate.
             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. If Fortuna does catch the two lovers, it will make Death's task ...