Romeo And Juliet Fate Essay

Cassidy Lucero May 29, 2024 Mrs. Selfridge English 1 Period 1 Essay Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet depicts the young lovers' tragic deaths as inevitable from the start given three main factors of their love story: obsession, feuding families, and fate. Romeo's obsessive love leads to impulsive decisions and intense feelings that set the stage for their tragic end. The conflict between the two houses creates a hostile environment that makes their secret love affair risky. However, the looming presence of fate ultimately seals their destiny, revealing that, despite their choices and turn of events, their ending was set in stone. Illustrating Romeo with labile love interests, first with Rosaline and the extreme reaction to rejection then sudden

Furthermore, Mercutio is hurt in a fight and says, "I am hurt." A plague o' both your houses! I am speedy” (121). Mercutio’s death not only shows the harmful impact caused by rivalry between the families, but it also foreshadows Romeo and Juliet's tragic fates. It points out the unsafe situation they are in, where even friends' deaths are caused by this rivalry, adding to the danger that their hidden love brings. Shakespeare repeatedly highlights that the intense feud and constant danger between the Montagues and Capulets enhances the riskiness of their secret love and hints at their approaching deaths. Ultimately, forces beyond their control, especially forces predetermined by the stars, determined Romeo and Juliet's fate. Romeo and his friends prepare to attend the Capulet's party. Before they go in Romeo has an uneasy feeling that something is going to happen if he goes into the party and says "I fear too early, for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars"

This action portrays how uncontrolled forces, like fate, lead Romeo and Juliet to their suicides. After Romeo kills Tybalt he realizes the severity of his actions feeling trapped by fate, he says "O, I am fortune's fool!" 125. The Romeo realizes his killing of Tybalt further complicates his relationship with Juliet. Feeling like a puppet controlled by fate, he cannot escape his fate, which by definition is a force beyond his control. Romeo finds Juliet appearing dead in Act 5 Scene 3 overwhelmed with grief, he says, "Then I deny you, stars!" 213. The. This depicts Romeo's desperate attempt to defy the fate that has been set by the stars by ending his own life rather than letting the stars dictate his death. Thus, Romeo tries to take control by choosing to kill himself rather than live without Juliet. His decision to try to reject fate plays into the tragic destiny that had been set for them. Shakespeare highlights that despite Romeo and Juliet’s attempts to control their destiny, the star’s predetermined forces were the ultimate deciders of their