A Cruel Twist Of Fate In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Zoey Bauder
Herko
English I
3 March 2023
A Cruel Twist of Fate A divine, plush-looking bed sits in the center of a room; its thick, gauzy curtains hiding the horror soon to be discovered. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet Capulet is discovered by her Nurse to be dead early Wednesday morning. The Nurse swiftly calls on Juliet’s parents, Lord and Lady Capulet, and they come to the conclusion that she drank herself to death. Many people could potentially be blamed for Juliet’s suicide. Even so, ultimately, the blame cannot fall on any person, but rather an idea: fate. Fate played the largest role in Juliet’s death because it created all of Romeo and Juliet’s dilemmas, it fabricated Romeo and Juliet’s first encounter, and it predetermined

In the words of the prologue, “The sad story of their ill-fated love, / and of their parents’ continuing anger, / which nothing except their children’s deaths could end,” (Shakespeare 1.Prologue.9-11). The root issue of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is the grudge held between their two families, and all of their other problems spiral off from it. The grudge between the Montagues and the Capulets is never explained to have any particular reason behind it because the cause of the hatred happened so long ago that they can not even remember it. Yet, they blindly despise each other anyway. This means that the grudge existed long before Romeo and Juliet were born, making it only a cruel twist of fate that they happened to be born into two different families who lived to hate the other. Another major problem caused by fate is the age at which

At this party of Capulet’s, the beautiful Rosaline that you love so much will dine with all of the beautiful girls of Verona. Go there, and with an unprejudiced eye, compare her face to some of the others I’ll show you, I’ll make you think your swan is a crow.
ROMEO. When the devout belief of my eyes asserts such a lie, then my tears will turn to fires; and these eyes, often drowned in tears, could never die. transparent unbelievers should be burned for lying! Someone more beautiful than my love? The all-seeing sun has never seen my love’s equal since the world began.
BENVOLIO. Ha! You think she’s beautiful because, having no one to compare her with, you only saw her balanced in each of your eyes. But in your two eyes, those crystal scales of yours, weigh your lady’s love against another lady whom I will show you at this party, and your Rosaline will scarcely look good who now seems the fairest to you.
ROMEO. I’ll go with you, not to find a lovelier girl, but to rejoice in the beauty of my own Rosaline (Shakespeare