The theme of fate being responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths in the play, Romeo and Juliet. Such as when Friar John was not able to enter Mantua, and transfer Friar Lawrence’s letter to Romeo. However, instances like this one are misleading, as the “star-crossed lovers” hold responsibility for their ultimate demise. Romeo and Juliet’s ultimate deaths were an inauspicious side effect of their own actions, rather than fate, because they were far too passionate, demonstrated suicidal tendencies long before their suicides, and made very brash decisions.
Romeo and Juliet’s passion for one another was a component that led to their final moments. After he first meets Juliet and they claim their love for each other, Romeo immediately runs to Friar Lawrence and requests that he marry them, and claimed that “[his] dear love is set/ On the fair daughter of rich Capulet./ As [his] on hers, so hers is set on [his],/ And all combined, save what thou must combine/ By holy marriage.”
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Juliet first demonstrates her fatal thoughts when she meets Romeo and exclaims: “If he be married/ My grave is like to be my wedding bed” (I.v.148-149). This quote both foreshadows Romeo and Juliet’s suicide and is an example of how Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were of their own faults, rather than fate’s, because of their strong feelings for one another and suicidal tendencies. After this, Romeo actually tries to kill himself, as does Juliet later on, after slaying Tybalt in an attempt to avenge Mercutio, and asks Friar Lawrence: “O, tell me, Friar, tell me,/ In what vile part of this anatomy/ Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack/ The hateful mansion. (draws his dagger)” (III.iii.114-117). These suicidal thoughts and actions demonstrated by both Romeo come back to bite when they actually go through with it in their final moments. Suicidal thoughts in Romeo and Juliet consequently ends in their