Romeo And Juliet Fate Essay

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is a story about a pair of star-crossed lovers who took their own lives because of their family feuds. Was it fate that leads them to death, or was

is it their own choice? It was most definitely fate that had made them take their lives. Here is all

the evidence that the couples’ choices were not actual choices, but fate. Fate always directed

them, and it was never choice that led them. In the story, fate played a role in many different

ways, such as the prologue directly stating it, Romeo going to the party, and the events after

Mercutio dies.

One example of fate playing an important role in the story was in the prologue, where the

narrator directly tells the audience that Romeo and

This can be shown through the words, “death-marked” because of their own tragic downfall that

started because of the feud between their families. This sentence shows that they are doomed

from the beginning, their love will never flourish because unfortunately, fate led to their demise.

“Star-crossed lovers” means that their union was never meant to be from the start and that they

could not avoid their destiny.

Another example of fate taking the wheel in the story is when Romeo feels that going to the

party is a bad idea. He has a nagging feeling that going to this party will result in something bad

that will begin from there on out. The events that will happen at the end of the party will

start something that would close with his death. “Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, /

With this night’s revels, and expire the term / Of a despised life closed in my breast / By some

vile forfeit of untimely death” (1.4.105-109). This quote tells us that fate had already decided

that Romeo is to die, and Romeo has a very strong sense of it. That fact certainly has been

proven when he went to the party. When he goes there he falls in love with Juliet

When Romeo fell in love with Juliet it indicates that fate had already planned

everything beforehand and that they couldn’t have chosen which path they wanted to go for in

their lives.

The third and final example of fate controlling the destiny of the characters in the story is when

Mercutio died because of Romeo getting in the way of their fight. When Mercutio died, he

curses the Capulets and the Montagues: “Ask for me tomorrow, / and you shall find me a grave

man. I am peppered, / I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!” (3.1.96-98).

The quote tells us that Mercutio had cursed both of the houses, and foreshadows Romeo and

Juliet’s impending downfall. Mercutio’s death really did cause a series of events in the story,

because of Mercutio’s death, Romeo was driven by vengeance to kill Tybalt. If Romeo didn’t kill

Tybalt, then he would have never be made exiled from Verona and the upcoming tragic events

would have never happened. However, Romeo killing Tybalt was fate, and he wouldn’t have

been able to choose to stop it from happening. After Romeo killed Tybalt, his Banishment

devastated Juliet and caused her father to move up the date of the marriage to Paris.