How Did Romeo And Juliet Take Fate

Take Fate’s Hand Taking Fate by the Hand Imagine being in love and inseparable with one’s only family enemy. In William Shakespeare’s, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet were doomed from the beginning. As mentioned in the prologue, the lover’s stars are crossed. In the time of William Shakespeare, the people believed strongly in what the stars were reading. If ones stars were crossed, it meant that one was going to be prevented from something. The lover’s predetermined destiny ruined their future right from the start. Their relationship was not going to work no matter what they tried. Throughout the play, “fate’s hand” played multiple roles. Shakespeare dropped many hints about the ending. Before the Capulet’s party, Romeo was talking to Mercutio about going and he said, “I fear, too early; for my mind misgives/ Some consequence yet hanging in the stars” (I, iv, 106-107). Romeo talking about the stars ties back to him and Juliet being “star-crossed lovers” and deepening the fact that they trusted so much in the stars. Romeo shows that he has a feeling something isn’t going to go right, starting at the party. Once Romeo decides to go to the party, he immediately is putting himself in harm's way by entering the household of the enemy.

Later in the play, when the fight between Tybalt, Mercutio, and Romeo is an outbreak, Mercutio shouts, “A plague a both your houses!” (III, i, 88). Plague is to cause continual trouble or distress to. Not only the fight, but the word’s Mercutio uses, foreshadow the horrible events about to take place. Mercutio’s words are telling what is to come for the couple. The bloody fight gives the audience a glimpse of what is to come. Romeo, later, then says, “This day’s black fate on moe days doth depend,/ This but begins the woe others must end,” (III, i, 117-118). Romeo did not know that the “others” would be himself and