Controlled Destiny vs. Real Destiny
In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” Shakespeare uses foreshadowing, characterization, and symbolism to prove the theme that fate always wins in the end. There are many examples that show that Romeo is very much driven by how destiny controls him. While Juliet believes that you can control your fate. However, at the end of everything fate controls everything. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two lovers who are in separate families that hate each other. The action starts out when Romeo Montague crashes the Capulet’s party, and he meets Juliet Capulet. After the party Romeo stalks/listens to Juliet and finds out how she feels about him. When Juliet finds out that Romeo was listening the whole time, she says
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After they get married secretly, Romeo gets into a fight with Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, who then kills Romeo’s best friend, Mercutio. Due to the death of his best friend Romeo kills Tybalt. He then gets banished from the town of Verona. Juliet can't handle the sadness of her cousin dying and Romeo getting banished. While this all happens, Lord Capulet is planning Juliet’s wedding with another guy named, Paris. However, Juliet is already married to Romeo. So due to this Juliet tries to ask her parents to stop the marriage, but they get extremely mad and say no. She then runs to Friar Lawrence to ask him for some help on what to do with the marraige. The Friar comes up with a plan to bring Juliet and Romeo together again. He gives her a potion that will put her to sleep for pretty much two days. He would then send a letter Romeo to come and save her and take her away. However, Romeo never gets the letter and thinks that Juliet is dead. He comes and sees she is on her bed "dead". He then commits suicide by drinking poison. Juliet wakes up a little later and sees Romeo dead and dies by stabbing herself. However, throughout all of this Shakespeare incorporates fate all over the story using