“Star-crossed lovers, heartbreaks and regret. When I look in your eyes I wish we never met.” Therefore, even though Romeo and Juliet met and had fun while it lasted it shows how emotionally that they wished they never did since their love made them die.Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a play about two star-crossed lovers that are from opposing household who fall in love,marry, and then die. Romeo and Juliet was made back in the Elizabethan era where they more realide on the stars for what going to happen in the future. Predetermined destiny is a major element in Romeo and Juliet because in the play they use the stars to foreshadow events just like they did back in that era. They display predetermined destiny by using love, star crossed lovers, and fate.
The first thing that they mention about astrology in Romeo and Juliet is predetermined love. Predetermined love is when someone uses the stars to see if a couple is a match with this person or not. They do this by seeing
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Fate is another major element of astrology that is referred to in Romeo and Juliet. They use fate to see into the future like foreshadowing what is going to happen in the play, who will die and how. Fate goes with predetermined destiny because if they can see enough into the future for death, why can 't they see into the future for anything else. “ Go ask his name-If he is married,/My grave is like to be my wedding bed”(I,v,133-134). Juliet is foreshadowing her own fate which is that her grave becomes her wedding bed. “O God, I have a ill-divining soul!/Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,/As one dead in the bottom of a tomb./Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale”(III,v,54-57). Juliet is saying she has an ill-divining soul because she had a premonition of Romeo death and when the last time Juliet will see him in her tomb. These are all ways that show them foreshadowing the fate of these lovers and this shows that predetermined destiny is a important role in Romeo and