Fate is a concept that is well known as something that planned the future and cannot be changed, no matter how hard someone might try, this concept is established in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare when in the prologue Shakespeare states that the main protagonists, Romeo and Juliet will die by the end of the play, “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their lives,”(Prologue, line six) and Shakespeare uses this idea of fate in numerous occasions, But only three examples will be used; when Romeo is banished from Verona, when the Prince says the Capulets and Montagues cannot fight in Verona, and Lord Capulet's Masquerade to prove that Shakespeare says that fate cannot be changed. Early into the play Romeo and Juliet, Prince Escalus states that if Capulets and Montagues ever fight in Verona they would be executed. “If ever you disturb the streets again Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace”(Act one, Scene one, lines 94-95). With this is in place the two households must refrain from getting into conflict with each other or face the death penalty and with the violence off of the streets for now this would …show more content…
“Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night”(Act 5, Scene 1, line 34) This was fate’s way of getting the two lovers to die. Shakespeare makes sure that the messenger doesn’t give Romeo the letter that was sent by Friar Lawrence by using an unforeseen event that ensures that the deaths of Romeo and Juliet will happen. “Where the infectious pestilence did reign, seal’d up the doors, and would not let us forth:... Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo? I could not send it,--here it is again,...”(Act 5, Scene 2, lines 10-11,13-14) Shakespeare uses the Black Death to help further the belief of fate to make sure Romeo and Juliet