The play “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, has left many arguments and theories to the reader. One is the star-crossed lovers theory. Now, the fate of the households was very bad and each house hated one another. So when Romeo and Juliet met, we know that things will not turn out the way they hoped for. Whether people debate the story was all the parents fault, or Mercutio's fault for starting a battle against Tybalt. It is all Romeo and Juliet's fault. The next generation of a king and a queen. Firstly, fate plays a very specific role in the story, as the opening lines say: “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” (Act 1 Proglogue) This suggests that Romeo and Juliet's fate was predetermined by some higher power, …show more content…
The conflict between the families is filled with hatred and anger that soon lead to Mercutio and Tybalts death and the banishment of Romeo. “I shall banish thou and thou must never come back here.”(Act 3 scene 4) So when Romeo finds love for Juliet he confesses his love and soon the whole story begins to have a downside once he makes people do favors for him to be with Juliet. He begins to get other people in trouble and soon enough makes the houses begin to get more furious and made. While Juliet has many other reasons too on why it is her fault and why they should have never chosen to fall in love. One of them is that she begins to stand up for herself and soon her father begins to make decisions for her and she yells at her father “Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands. Wouldn't but I might venge my cousin’s death! And yet you make me marry thee?”(Act 3 scene 5) she gets mad at her parents for forcing her to marry Paris thus making her father way more mad and forcing Juliet to marry Paris on any terms. If Juliet just accepted fate and married Paris she would have been able to see Romeo and still make her people