Romeo And Juliet Destiny Essay

To control one’s destiny

In Greek mythology, The Fates control everyone’s destiny. Weaving the thread of life, these three old ladies get to decide what goes on in everyone’s life. With their old, spiny hands, they decide when a person is born, and the moment and reason of their tragic death. However, humanity knows this isn’t true, as it is myth. Shakespeare explores similar ideas in his play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, where he uses Romeo’s attitude towards present the idea that while there are things out of our control, this is not fate, and fate is recurrently is a product of our own minds.

There are things that one person cannot control in their life. While a person can blame this on fate, it is foolish to do so when it most likely is to blame on other human behavior. This is the case in Romeo and Juliet, where the families have already been in a feud for a long time. We even know from the prologue that

Every twist and turn that happens in this tragedy is just an effect of his or her behavior. When Juliet is dead in Romeo’s eyes, he plans his suicide, and exclaims that he wants to “Die with a restorative!’ (iv.i.i). His crazy thinking has led to him thinking he needs to kill himself to defy fate. This shows his irrationality, how he overreacts to everything. His mind is so twisted that he thinks everyone in the world is against him. In fact, they could have gotten an annulment! However, Juliet throws the opportunity away, when she sends her nurse away, and tells her to send Romeo to him and to fornicate their marriage together, saying, “O, find him! Give this ring to my true knight and bid him come to take his last farewell,” (III.iv.87). Neither of them are thinking straight, and Juliet should have gotten an annulment instead of deciding to fornicate their marriage. Juliet was very unwise and decided against this, and while her confidant, the nurse, is smart, she doesn’t listen to