The idea of a fortune, usually adverse, that is predetermined and inescapable. Fate. The. Three sisters, Greek Goddesses, named Moirai were once the goddesses of fate. They were tasked with sculpting every human life, in and out. Instantly at birth, Moirai weaved each decision and consequence. Each human’s fate, a fate. Throughout time, this concept began unfolding. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet outlined a similar play on this belief around 1600. Within the play, two households have a raging feud. Despite this, their two children, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love. The two are married in a lost attempt to mend the hostility. Alas, after Romeo finds himself banished from fair Verona, Juliet feigns her own death, only to wake up from her sleep with Romeo …show more content…
Right? That is a good idea. Wrong. I am not a shaman. The Capulet and Montague vendetta was seemingly unresolvable. Romeo and Juliet were born on two different sides. Shakespeare first illustrated fate in Act III, Scene I, lines 98 and 99. Shortly after Tybalt slays Mercutio in a street scuffle, Mercutio cries out in vain. “A plague o’ both your houses!”(III.i.103). The fight is provoked because Capulet, Tybalt, is poking fun at Romeo, Montague. Mercutio says this in reference to the family feud. He voiced that if the families weren’t fighting, then he never would have been slain by Tybalt. This displays fate because, again, it sets apart Romeo and Juliet. The very first mention of a disagreement between the two families is in the third line of the Prologue. “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,” Fate controls every bit of this line solely because of the two families. Romeo and Juliet were born against each other. There was no reason, nor a way around it. Termination of life. Death. The. Possibly the most obvious examples of fate in Romeo and Juliet are found in revolving death. Juliet fakes her death and Romeo falls for it. Romeo is dead and Juliet