Fate is something we cannot control for it is a higher power than any of us. William Shakespeare wrote “Romeo and Juliet” which is a play about two Italian families who hate each other but whose children have fallen in love. Romeo and Juliet’s tragedy was due to fate, all the events that weren't by choice so the tragedy was made to happen. It was set in stone and no one could do anything about it.
Young Juliet acts with a sense of loyalty, respect, and intelligence in the first four scenes of the play, before she meets Romeo, as she displays high education and respect for herself and parents. Juliet belongs to the esteemed house of the Capulets, who are highly regarded in Verona; therefore, she acts respectable and honorable. The young Capulet regards the rules and her family with great precedence, “Madam [...] what is your will?” (1.3.7). Immediately upon being called by the nurse and her mom, Juliet asks her mom what she desires.
Romeo and Juliet “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life/ Who’s misadventured piteous overthrows/ Doth with their bury their parents’ strife,” (Shakespeare 1.Prologue.6-8). Romeo and Juliet is a play about two young lovers who are bound to fall in love. However, the fighting between their families made it forbidden for them to be with each other.
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet has a number of distinctive features, one of which is evident through analysis of an important speech. Leading up to this speech, Juliet’s mother, Lady Capulet, enters Juliet’s room. She then proceeds to ask Juliet how she feels regarding the death of her cousin, Tybalt. Juliet does not give much of a response, so Lady Capulet asks, instead, how she feels towards the villain, Romeo, who murdered her cousin. This time, Juliet tells her mother about how she wishes to avenge the death of Tybalt.
“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move” (21). The conversation was about the arranged marriage in which Juliet don’t even know whom she is going to marry. Shakespeare demonstrates Juliet’s innocence through dialogue, metaphor and imagery. Juliet’s innocence is proven through the use of dialogue that showcasing her immaturity and obedience.
Fate is seen by many of the character in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as the reason for Romeo and Juliet’s downfall. In truth, however, it is the character flaw and actions of Romeo, Friar Lawrence and Caplet that turely lead to their deaths. Romeo himself is the character that lead to his and Juliet’s death, because of his impulsive nature. Romeo was overwhelmed by the feeling of getting revenge for Mercutio. He didn’t thought of the consequences.
Although Juliet is a hardheaded and clingy character she is also determined and loyal. During the play Juliet is forced, by her father, to marry another man named Paris. Juliet is set on being with Romeo and said to her father “ I pray, tell my lord and father, madam/ I will not marry yet (lll.iiiii.120-121). By refusing another man it showed how loyal she was to Romeo. Along with her loyalty, Juliet shows her determination to be with Romeo in the last act of the play.
Loyalty is a friend “Look out for the people who look out for you. Loyalty is everything” (Picture quotes). Loyalty is necessary for a friendship and is what people should look for in a friend. One loyal friend is worth more than a thousand disloyal ones. They will stand by your side and never leave and always have your back.
She says: “O God, I have an ill-divining soul!/Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low/ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb” (3.5.53-55). Juliet, without knowing, hints at Romeo and her death by saying that she made a huge mistake, and her soul lies at the bottom of a tomb. Fate works its way through these characters to foreshadow their untimely deaths. Just like fate plays a massive impact on the tragedy, the Montague and Capulet feud plays almost as much of an impact as
Juliet’s parents are upset that she has suddenly passed, but Juliet’s mother focuses on the fact that she may die soon and Juliet’s father finds it to be an inconvenience that she would present herself dead in front of him; the genuine importance of a person is undermined by others’ thoughts of them and whether they find the situation to be bothersome. All the Capulets who were inconsiderately unsettled by Juliet’s death were fairly scolded by Friar Lawrence as he explains that Juliet is now in a better place yet they only cared for what she could provide for them and not Juliet herself, “The most you sought was her promotion / For ‘twas your heaven she should be advanced / And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced / Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself / Oh, in this love, you love your child so ill / That you run mad, seeing that she is well” (4.5.71-76).
Fate is the power that determines the outcome of events in life. Whatever power an individual possesses in their free will cannot change destiny. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, it tells the story of two young lovers from rival families. Their attempts to stay together lead to their deaths.
In Act 3, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Romeo cries, “Oh I am Fortune’s fool!”. Highlighted in this quote is the belief that Romeo’s tragic circumstances are a result of fate. However, while societal currents influence the decisions of an individual, it is primarily those decisions made by the individual that determine consequence. Through the examination of personal agency, decision-making, and responsibility and its interaction with societal influence exemplified in the play, Romeo’s perception of being “Fortune’s fool” is invalidated. Society plays a role in personal agency, overall influencing an individual’s choice.
He vents his profound anger and sorrow to his family, directed at fate. “Uncomfortable time, why cam’st thou now/ To murder, murder our solemnity?... Alack, my child is dead, / And with my child my joys are buried” (4.5.60-61, 63-64). This is a demonstration of how Capulet’s emotions are too strong for him to control and although he is very upset and angry by Juliet’s “death” and blames fate for taking his daughter from him, most of his emotions stem from his concern for his family's reputation and his desire to maintain control over their lives, which overall
Romeo and Juliet are both found in the tomb, unalive and drenched in blood. Lady Capulet is shocked by her only child, Juliet, being dead. She feels as if her time to be in a grave is not far off and seeing her beautiful Juliet makes her feel old. By making her feel old, it shows that Lady Capulet is aging and thinks that
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare masterfully employs the key elements of tragedy, such as language, form and features, to explore the themes of extreme obsession and fate versus love. Depicted throughout the play, Shakespeare conveys Romeo’s extreme obsession, which ultimately leads to his downfall. Another theme discussed also includes fate versus love, incorporating the idea of how Romeo and Juliet were predestined to die. In Romeo and Juliet, one of the major themes portrayed is extreme obsession.
