Kayleigh Purcell Ms. McIntosh Honors English March 14, 2024 Are We Ever Truly Able To Escape Fate? Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. In the play, a town is afflicted by a feud between two families. Two children who have fallen helplessly in love try to find a way to be together despite every barrier in their way. During this, fate’s presence is lurking. Their deaths have truly been unavoidable, as every last effort the characters have made actually brought them closer and closer to their death. Fate had caused them to meet, which means that the tragedy was truly doomed to happen. One reason tragedy was inevitable was that fate was the very reason they’d met.. Before meeting each other, it seemed as if there was no connection between them. It seemed as if they’d never even met. Gregory, one …show more content…
This is when he comes up with the plan to poison himself. He believes that by ending his own life, he is defying what fate had wanted for him all along. However, his own life ending was what fate’s plan was this whole time. No matter what, they were never able to escape their destiny. However, it was all futile, their deaths were inevitable. Some might say that this could have easily been avoided, had one thing been slightly different, but I think the improbability of these events shows that fate’s hand was guiding Romeo and Juliet towards their end. One thing that shows this is the prologue, that could arguably be fate, that from the start, the “Pair of Star Cross’d lovers take their life.” (Shakespeare Prologue.6). If the prologue is truly from fate, or from some sort of higher power, this is predetermined. It was revealed to us before they had ever even met, showing that their path had been set from the very moment they were born. Also, the characters have had numerous premonitions about their future, when Romeo is leaving Juliet, she says that “I see thee, now thou art below / As one dead in the bottom of a