Characters in a story are not always to blame for the results of their actions, and this is especially true in the play Romeo and Juliet. In this play by William Shakespeare, two young teenagers find themselves falling in love. They try to use their love to bring both themselves and their families together in order to find peace and happiness, but it does not work. In the end, the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, both end up killing themselves as a result of the feud between the two families. After watching the play, most might immediately believe that the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is the fault of the couple’s parents, but this is not the case. The real fault for these deaths is not even a character; it is fate.
Throughout the story, fate is mentioned as the cause of the events, and it is implied that what happens at the end of the story is unavoidable. One of the most notable mentions of this can be seen when Benvolio urges Romeo and Mercutio to stop talking about dreams so they can get to the Capulets’ party on time. Romeo responds to Benvolio by saying that “Some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night's revels, and expire the term of a despised life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he
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This prologue, unlike in most stories, is a summary of what happens throughout the play. One of the most important pieces of this summary is when it says, “The fearful passage of their death -marked love and the continuance of their parents' rage, which, but their children's end, naught could remove,” (Shakespeare 1.Prologue.8-10). These lines explain how their love was doomed from the beginning. It explains that fate brought them together to end the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, as the death of two lovers was the only thing that could end the conflict. Even from the start, fate is implied as the cause of the