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Romeo And Juliet Fate Essay

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Shakespear’s play Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy based on two “star-crossed lovers” and their story about their deaths. Shakesparea explores the theme of fate throughout the play through the misfortunes of the two protagonists that lead them to their deaths.While Romeo and Juliet were able to make choices for themselves, the fate of their fates was inevitable. The fate of their death is stated in the prologue and the ending fulfills the idea that Romeo and Juliet meeting was no coincidence. However, Romeo and Juliet had opportunities to decide what to do for themselves and for their relationship. The fate of Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy as they could not change the outcome of their story. The prologue illustrates that Romeo and Juliet are ‘star-crossed lovers”, they were fated to not be together yet the prologue also explains how they ended up dead because of this. In the end of the play Romeo and Juliet are dead, they were fated to end this way. ”From forth the fatal love loins of these two foes a pair of star crossed lovers take their own life.” This …show more content…

Throughout the play, their deaths were foreshadowed too many times for it to be just coincidences. “O God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art below as one dead in the bottom of a tomb.” Act 3 Scene 5 Line 51, Juliet claims she senses Romeo's death. “Go ask his name if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed” Act 1 Scene 5 line 146-149, Juliet asks if she can marry Romeo and says that her ‘grave is like to be her wedding bed’. “I fear, too early, for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars” Act 1 Scene 4, Romeo says he has a funny feeling something is “hanging in the stars” will be set that night. From beginning to end, their deaths have been foreshadowing during the entire play, this cannot be a coincidence from the amount of times Romeo and Juliet's death was

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