Fate In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare, and the tragedy of this story was magnificent in the play in which Iambic pentameter was used almost the whole book. William Shakespeare was born in England in 1564 and was part of the acting group The King's Men. Shakespeare wrote plays like MacBeth and Hamlet. In the first few lines of the play it states “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives...The fearful passage to their death-marked love.”(prologue 5-8) This quote heavily foreshadows the rest of the book and how the book will pan out. So it's very important to know that Shakespeare did this because his audience were always drunk and such and would barely even see the play. The two lines are huge in the story as it contributes

Therefore everything in the book would have been fate that everything could not be stopped. Some parts of the novel were fate such as when the servant gave Romeo the invitation and met Juliet at the party. Friar John might have been able to deliver the letter if there was no black plague and saved Romeo from his death for Juliet. I definitely think that fate was one of the biggest parts of the whole play itself. Fate is what moved the play forward and without Romeo meeting the servant he would have never fallen in love with Juliet. All of the options come back to fate because of all of the what if’s this happened or that happened. Fate is probably the most important on of all of them just because the whole book is based around

Many accidents happened in the play that should not have happened per say when the Friar John got stuck in in the house due to the bubonic plague and he was quarantined that would have changed the whole course of the story. Also when Romeo kills Paris and Tybalt. Tybalt killed mercutio in a fight then Romeo then killed Tybalt then he feels very sad because he killed his cousin in law. Then Romeo killed Paris in the tomb of the capulets because he wanted to get revenge on Romeo for killing his “new spouse’s”cousin in law. They were all accidents especially Paris because it was so dark and he charged at him. It was a complete accident when Romeo and Juliet are getting married because they only saw each other once and without the invitation they wouldn't be married. When Romeo finds out that Juliet is “dead” he finds a poor apothecary and buys poison from him to end up killing himself later in the play. Willfulness was also a reason why Romeo and Juliet came through as it did. Romeo’s willfulness to die for his love Juliet was a very crucial part in the play as then Juliet wouldn't have killed herself and end the story with both families at greif at the end of the novel. Romeo climbing over the wall after the Capulet ball and confessing his love to Juliet was out of pure will To an extend them kissing at the Capulet ball was willfulness especially after a romantic