Fate In Romeo And Juliet

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Some may not trust or accept that fate is something that is the inevitable and will eventually play it’s course. However People trust the fact that whatever decisions they choose is their own doing and not “destiny’s plan”. Others believe that god has a plan and they're just supposed to let everything play it’s course, in other terms these people believe in something called fate. In the famous novel know as Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, he uses Foreshadowing and Dramatic irony to show that fate is a destiny and eventually you fulfill that which makes it inevitable.

It's no mistake that Romeo and Juliet meet anyway, before Romeo attends the Capulets party he says “Some consequence yet hanging in the stars,shall bitterly begin his fearful date”. Saying this Romeo is already predicting his fate, he fears that if he shows at the party trouble will begin to brew, where he meets “his love” Juliet. It’s fate that these two star crossed lovers meet because Romeo states it himself. Also the deaths of both is the “consequence” , Romeo knows this from the beginning within …show more content…

Instead of knowing what Friar Lawrence had in mind he was told by a servant about Juliet being “dead”.”Her body sleeps in capel's Monument”. Although we know that this is indeed false, it’s fate performing its” job.” The false information about the plan is when the tragedy truly got set into motion. Friar Lawrence's plan also played a part to this tragedy because Romeo was supposed to be notified but as we read on it didn’t happen, so with Romeo persistence to to die it brings us to Romeo and Juliet’s final fate, death. It was Foreshadowed and destine that Romeo and Juliet meet, fall in love, and die, fate plays a huge part in Shakespeare's theme. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses foreshadowing and Dramatic Irony to show us Romeo and Juliet’s Final Fate which was indeed