IngMarie Schultz Chiado English 163 January 8, 2016 Destiny’s Circumstance Peter Koevari, an Australian writer once said, “Our destinies are riddled with challenges that have a tendency to ruin well laid plans. Many have attempted to take fate into their own hands and have been unsuccessful in changing it. We must be aware that our choices may come back to haunt us later in life, but to trust that it is all part of fate’s design.” Peter Koevari seems to speak almost directly to the title characters of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The setting and ultimately fate in the play controlled Romeo and Juliet's time together. Family relations, place, and time also dictated the opportunities and limitations for change. Throughout the play, …show more content…
Their plans couldn't be fully thought out due to the fact that they had very little time. The Capulets hasten the wedding plans, urging Juliet to marry Paris sooner because her cousin Tybalt was had just been killed. The Capulets thought that marriage would make her happier in light of Tybalt’s death. Lady Capulet told Juliet this saying, “Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn”(3.5.17). Capulet and his wife insisting that Juliet marry so soon sends her into a panic since she and Romeo are already secretly married. Since Juliet knows she had little time until her wedding with Paris, she is forced to choose from her bleak options. Eventually, the option she chooses leads to her end. Not long after Juliet makes her choice, she goes to see Friar Lawrence. Juliet and Friar Lawrence made a plan to fake her death. Friar Lawrence gave Juliet a vial to make her appear as dead until he and Romeo would get her from her mausoleum. He said, “take thou this vial, being in bed....Thou shalt continue two and forty hours”(4.1.95-107). Those two and forty hours aided the limitations for change. Time helped created the grievous outcome of Romeo and Juliet’s