Romeo And Juliet Dichotomy Of Fate

The perception of solar eclipses from the perspective of a human eye is inaccurate and not real. It may seem like the sun and moon are finally colliding and merging as one, but in reality, they’re still one-hundred billion meters apart. Isn’t that upsetting? If only there wasn’t a supernatural force that controls the sun and moon, which therefore dictates the final verdict of whether or not they can eventually become one. Fate directs life and its occurring events. If it wasn’t for fate, Romeo and Juliet could have been together. Just like the sun and moon, Romeo and Juliet were destined to be ill-fated. In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the dichotomy of light and dark illustrating the opposing lovers and the devastating irony

For example, Romeo states after their first encounter, “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” (Shakespeare, 2.2.3). Romeo’s statement compares Juliet to the bright sun. Not long after, Juliet creates a parallel to Romeo’s proclamation, saying, “Come, gentle Night, come, loving-black-browed Night.” (Shakespeare, 3.2.20). Juliet is comparing the “loving…Night” to Romeo, implying that Romeo is the night to her day. Juliet as the “sun” and Romeo as the “Night” is ironic because the night cannot be present during the day. With that said, Romeo and Juliet classified as two contrasting opposites, highlights how the two were bound in the beginning to be apart. For instance, when Juliet eagerly waits for the night to arrive, she declares, “That all the world will be in love with night, / And pay no worship to the garish sun.” (Shakespeare, 3.2.24-5). Juliet is inferring that if Romeo is the night, then the “world will be in love with night.” Therefore, causing the “garish sun” to lose praise because the sun cannot shine brightly while the moon is glowing. Juliet’s remark supports how the sun and moon cannot fully coexist due to the statistics of fate. That being said, Romeo and Juliet cannot coexist because they’re destined to be divorced. After their night’s rendezvous in Juliet’s bedroom, Romeo asserts, “More light and light, more

When Juliet realizes that her heart belongs to her family’s enemy, she says, “Prodigious birth of love it is to me, / That I must love a loathed enemy.” (Shakespeare, 1.5.139-40). Juliet is distraught that her lover is part of a household that her family despises since she fully comprehends the problems their love will cause. If Juliet had fallen in love with someone other than Romeo, a Montague, she wouldn’t receive the complications their love offers. Fate guided their meeting, but fate also created the obstacles that separated them. Romeo proclaims after witnessing Juliet’s “dead” body, “Here’s to my love!... / Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (Shakespeare, 5.3.119-20). Romeo drinking the poison to unite with Juliet in heaven is a dramatic irony since he’s unaware that Juliet is alive. If he had received Friar Lawrence’s letter, then he would know that Juliet is well and wouldn’t kill himself. Fate produced a plague, which caused the letter to never reach Romeo. Juliet, hovering over Romeo’s dead body, says, “Thy lips are warm.” (Shakespeare, 5.3.167). The irony of Juliet stating that his lips are “warm” infers that he has recently died, and if Juliet had woken up a few minutes earlier, they could’ve been happy and alive together. There is nothing a human could do to wake Juliet before Romeo killed himself, which reveals that the two