The Improbability Of Fate In Romeo And Juliet

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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tale of the inevitable demise of two ‘star-cross’d lovers’. The entire play is performed with the idea of unravelling the what, why and how’s of it’s tragic end to the unknowing audience. Every event becomes a cause for a greater, significant event. The most major decision of the play is the meeting of Romeo and Juliet as it leads to the all the subsequent events and chaos. Romeo and Juliet’s meeting was fate, as it was out of their control, however, they ‘decided to have a relationship despite the differences of their family’. It was their choice to continue to be together, even though they were aware of the consequences and the improbability of a successful outcome. Their intense desire for each other and