Star-Crossed lovers all began with William Shakespeare. The story of Romeo and Juliet is both fate and bad decision making. The letter that never got to Juliet from Romeo is fate. However, Romeo drinking poison when he thought Juliet was dead is bad decision making. This is true because she was very clearly alive to the audience. Romeo and Juliet ended up the way they did due to fate. The fate was that Romeo and Juliet could never be together. The letter with the plan of Juliet's fake death, that never got to Romeo is an example of fate. This is fate due to the fact that there was nothing either, Romeo or Juliet could have done better to make sure the letter got delivered. " I couldn’t send it. Here it is. I couldn’t get a messenger to bring it to you either because they were scared of spreading the infection." (Shakespeare 257). …show more content…
Juliet made a bad decision when she decided to pretend like she was dead, to get out of marring Paris. Romeo thinks that Juliet is dead, despite her rosy cheeks and lips. Romeo's bad decision is killing himself because he thinks that Juliet is dead. " O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative." (Shakespeare 274). The bad decision that Juliet made to fake her death resulted in the death of both Romeo and Juliet. This shows how one bad decision led to
Fate is the most influential factor in the play of Romeo and Juliet because it was responsible for the couple's heartbreaking tragedy. By fate, the pair meet each other while the stars are crossed, cursing them with a dreadful fortune. Because of fate, the two young lovers meet each other in the first place and for that moment, Romeo and Juliet these unaware "star-crossed lovers" are bound to death. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the impression that Romeo and Juliet's death is brought about by cruel overwhelming fate is true, because it is not a coincidence that Romeo meets Juliet at the Capulet party, the pair of star-crossed lovers are the offspring of sworn enemies, and Friar Lawrence's plan was bound to fail.
In the beginning of “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare states them as star crossed lovers and locks them into the fate of death. Star crossed lovers indicate fate and destiny and the whole conclusion of Romeo and Juliet is based on fate and destiny and that everything that happened was bound to happen. Throughout the storyline many event took place because it was written, it was going to happen, it was simply destiny. The whole story of the two lovers could’ve been massively different of what it is now, if just destiny had chosen them to be together. Destiny and fate play a major role in this story because the final tragedy and the destruction of the protagonists were based upon it.
Once in a while many people make bad decisions. Usually these decisions don’t cause them any harm in their futures, unlike Romeo Montague’s and Juliet Capulet’s decisions. In Verona, a city in Italy, two lovers fall in love. The catch is their families despise each other. Eventually Romeo get’s banished from Verona, and Juliet is forced to marry someone she doesn’t want to marry. Juliet takes a potion that knocks her out for 42 hours, and feigns her death, hoping she does not have to marry Count Paris. Romeo assumes Juliet is dead, and drinks a potion that kills him, and when Juliet wakes up and realizes that Romeo is dead, she stabs herself. In William Shakespeare’s tragic play, Romeo and Juliet, the main protagonists, Romeo and Juliet,
Juliet’ tragic flaw was also a cause of her downfall. Her loyalty for Romeo drives her to suicide when she awakes and sees that Romeo is dying because of the poison he drank; she takes his dagger and stabs herself. As she stabs herself she says ‘” This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”’ (Act V, Scene III, Line 170). Romeo and Juliet both let their tragic flaws cause their downfall.
Immediately after he heard that Juliet was “dead,” Romeo cried, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight./ Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift/ To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!/ I do remember an apothecary.” Feeling hopeless and desperate without Juliet, Romeo made the impulsive decision of buying a deleterious potion in order for him to die beside his lover. His hasty manners caused him to make an abrupt choice of committing suicide in the spur of the moment. Because Juliet woke up moments later only to find Romeo dead beside her, she too, felt that life was unbearable without her lover and ended up stabbing herself. Had Romeo patiently thought through his actions instead of violently acting on impulse, both he and Juliet could have lived. Therefore, their deaths was not a result of fate, for Romeo had hastily decided to poison himself before he could receive the message of the hoax and Juliet ultimately chose to stab herself once she woke up to see that Romeo had misunderstood the situation and killed himself beside
Many people don 't believe that fate even exists. These people feel that one controls his or her own future. But in the case of the play, Romeo and Juliet written by Willian Shakespeare, this is not true. Romeo and Juliet is a story about two "star-crossed lovers" who ultimately die due to their fate. Since the moment they first time they met, things began in motion. These two lovers could not have done anything to change their course of fate, thus, why the story of Romeo and Juliet is a story controlled by fate, rather than a tragedy.
Fate is considered to be the development of events that cannot be controlled. Yet fate is regarded to be determined by a supernatural power. In the love story “Romeo and Juliet”, written by Shakespeare, the two lovers’ fate is held in their own hands. Throughout the play, they imply death but death does not effect Romeo or Juliet at the time.
Fate’s Role in Romeo and Juliet Although many believe that willfulness, or even mere accident are the cause of death, fate can prove to be the true origin. In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, fate plays a poignant role in Romeo and Juliet’s lives, which inevitably leads to their deaths. Through the use of foreshadow, as well as symbolism, it is apparent that the couple was fated to meet, however, their forbidden love did not defy all odds for long; the harsh reality brought to life by characters such as Mercutio show how destiny inevitably killed the ‘star-crossed lovers’.
First, Juliet fakes her death because she will not marry Paris, as she is already married to Romeo. When Romeo finds her, looking like a corpse, he kills himself out of sadness and loyalty to her, wanting to be with her again. “Here’s to my love. [Drinking.] O true apothecary, / thy drugs are quick.
The course that our life takes can be completely out of our control, even if we try to change it, this is called fate. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet uses the theme of fate to share the tragic story of the two lovers. Ever since the beginning, Romeo and Juliet are described as ‘star-crossed lovers’ who were destined to meet and fall in love. They had to overcome many challenges just to see each other because of the feud between their families, the Montagues and Capulets. Although they tried to fight against the odds, their tragic end was far beyond their control.
Romeo makes another terrible decision by drinking poison due to miscommunication and thinking that Juliet was dead. Friar Lawrence's message informing Romeo about the plan of Juliet faking her death had not reached him, so he planned on drinking poison so he could reunite himself with Juliet in heaven. This point is proven when Romeo says "Here's to my love/O true apothecary/Thy drugs are quick/Thus with a kiss I die"(5.3.119-120). The first sentence explains that Romeo is going to drink poison for Juliet and then the phrase continues to explain that if the apothecary's poison is effective, with a kiss he will
Did you know that Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s most famous works? There are so many things you can learn from by reading this story. The main theme of Romeo and Juliet is the inevitability of fate because they fell in love with each other even though their parents were enemies, and because they end in a tragic death that was bound to occur. Romeo and Juliet met by a spontaneously wild chance that Romeo showed up to Juliet’s family ball. So it was fate that they both were there on that night to meet each other. Little did they know that in less and 24 hours they would be married to each other. They were not supposed to be together so the fact that they died side by side is fate. The bad kind of fate is what happened
Romeo and Juliet would not have ended up in the position they were if it were not for fate taking control of their relationship, and ultimately their lives. The relationship between Romeo and Juliet was controlled primarily by fate. This can be proven by the fact that Shakespeare started the play by calling the pair “star-crossed lover” (1.1.1). This shows that Romeo and Juliet were destined to be lovers, even if it wasn’t meant to turn out in the end.
The concepts of love at first sight, star crossed lovers, and unavoidable destiny all point to the presence of a higher power known as fate. Often, in literature, the story is impacted greatly by a character’s inevitable fate. While there may not always be an obvious display of destiny in a story, by reading in-between the lines one can find it almost anywhere. Likewise, when reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it’s easy to blame one of the other characters for their deaths, when in fact a higher power is at play. In Romeo and Juliet, the tragic deaths of Juliet and Romeo can be attributed to fate as a result of unexpected coincidences and unfortunate timing.
The play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is widely known for its tale about two star-crossed lovers whom fate destined to be together. Though many agree with this interpretation, it is more likely that fate is a concept Shakespeare wrote to mock rather than to be take seriously. Considering the very young age of the two protagonists one is left wondering if it is love that brought them together or if it was the need to rebel against their parents’ command. They are not inconvenient soul mates, instead, they act as a tool to help the other defy their family. In addition, when they call their love their fate, Romeo and Juliet are simply creating excuses for their rash actions. This way they are able to relieve themselves of all responsibilities for their choices. Although fate is often considered a large motif within Romeo and Juliet a compelling argument can be made in favor of the play actually being a satirical take on the concept because of their deaths are marked by their own ignorant decisions opposed to fate.