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The Mechanism Of Chance In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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“What lady’s that which doth enrich the hand of yonder night?” Good morning faculty and year nine. Romeo and Juliet, an art, a tragic composition, one of the most brilliant works of the English language, a play revolving singlehandedly on acts of chance. It is by chance that Romeo meets Juliet at the party; by chance that Tybalt’s lunge lethally wounds Mercutio, by chance that Friar Lawrence’s letter doesn’t reach its destination and by chance that just moments after Romeo’s suicide, Juliet awakens. We are left out on a limb with thoughts encompassed by ‘if only’, but what we fail to realise is that the mechanism of chance is the drive in every significant event, throughout the entire play.

Perhaps the most significant chain of events in
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