The Theme of Fate in ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Romeo and Juliet was the timeless classic that redefined love, tragedy and forbidden romance. The story starts with Romeo and Juliet, two strangers from opposing families at war meeting at a party and falling in love at first sight. They decide to keep their love a secret and get married the next day. But when Romeo is banished for killing Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, Friar Laurence and Juliet, create a plan to fake Juliet’s death so that she can join Romeo in Mantua, and they can run away together.

But the plan begins to fall apart when Lord Capulet forces Juliet to marry Paris and changes the marriage date. Friar Laurence cannot get the plan to Romeo and he thinks Juliet is dead. He kills himself with poison and when Juliet finds his dead body, she kills herself with Romeo’s knife. The big question that is left standing after the play is, what are the causes of Romeo and Juliet’s death and all the events that lead up to it. There are many factors that lead up to Romeo and Juliet’s death and played major roles, but Fate, the family feud, and Romeo and Juliet’s decisions are for causing their deaths. While the family grudge and Romeo and Juliet are partially responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, Fate was most to blame.

The family feud was one of the major causes of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths

The family feud prevented Romeo and Juliet from being able to publicly have a relationship; instead, they had to hide their love for each other. If their families weren’t in a feud that had lasted centuries and was no longer relevant they would have never taken such drastic measures to be together. In the prologue it says, do with their death bury their parents’ strife. The quote is saying that only when Romeo and Juliet died did the family feud end. The families were too wrapped up in their own battle that they didn’t pay attention to how it was affecting other people, including their children. They couldn’t get past their pride and inborn hate for each other, and their children paid the price. They realized it too late, and the only thing that they could do was end the feud that killed their children. Without the family feud, Romeo and Juliet would have been allowed to happily marry, and Juliet would have never been forced to get engaged to Paris, or for Paris or anyone else to die. Lady Capulet and Lord Capulet forced Juliet to accept the marriage to Paris. They wanted her to marry a good, handsome, rich man from a good family. They constantly pressured her to do things she didn’t want to do thinking that they knew what was best for her without even asking. Whether they knew it or not, they were controlling her life. It’s not surprising that she took such drastic measures to run away.

It is an honor that I dream of she thoroughly expressed her lack of interest in marrying Paris, and, instead, of asking her why she didn’t want to marry, they called her baggage and a disobedient wretch and threatened to disown her and dump her on the streets. And even after she had begged them to give her some of the time, they refused. Lady Capulet is Juliet’s mother, but she doesn’t play the mother role in her life, and instead, her nurse is the mother figure, caring for her since birth. Because of this, they don’t have a close relationship. When Lord Capulet yelled and got angry at Juliet, Lady Capulet never stepped in and said maybe you should give her some time. Instead, all she says is Fie, fie! What, are you mad? in response to Lord Capulet’s threat to disowning and kicking his daughter out of the house with only the clothes on her back. Juliet was under a lot of pressure from her family. Her mother wanted her to be married and have a child. She was for the time, getting too old to be a mother. Ladies of esteem Are already made mothers: by my count Lady Capulet was upset that Juliet had not yet married and had made an heir, she was past the normal age to have a child and get married. Juliet without am a child and husband gave the family a bad name and Lady Capulet was worried that Juliet would forever remain unmarried and a virgin.

If lord Capulet had let Paris marry Juliet when he first asked, Romeo and Juliet would have never met and died. But through the play, Lord Capulet changes his mind and that marrying a successful, count that came to ask for Juliet’s hand in marriage persistently would make a good husband and help the family name. When Lord Capulet makes this decision, he is going against what he first initially said, that Juliet should have a say in the marriage. He thinks that marriage is a good idea for Juliet and doesn’t know about her secret relationship so when Juliet acts harshly and rudely he gets angry. Juliet is partially at fault in this situation because Lord Capulet does not know the full story, that she is deeply in love with Romeo and they’re married. So when she acts out, it seems like a rude, ungrateful, bratty thing to do. Lord Capulet was at fault for not asking why she was so against it and Juliet was at fault for not understanding that Lord Capulet didn’t know the full story and doesn’t understand what is really going on. Connect evidence to the thesis. Romeo and Juliet’s poor and irrational decisions caused their own deaths.

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. When Shakespeare says that he is talking about Romeo and Juliet’s struggle between their families and their deep love for each other. Romeo and Juliet made a lot of poor decisions during the play that leads to their deaths. When they decided to get married the day after meeting each other, fake Juliet’s death, and run away together. these violent delights have violent ends. Friar Lawrence warns Romeo that the decision to get married is a big and important decision. They are making this decision impulsively out of their strong love for each other, and it may make them happy now, there are going to be big consequences in the future. When they met for the first time, they danced. Flirted and talked. They are in the middle of developing a relationship and suddenly out of nowhere decide, to get married, only hours after they met. They are infatuated with each other and high of their feelings and are afraid if they keep their relationship where it is now, they will lose their intense feelings that they have for each other.

But it wasn’t only their rash decisions, but the way that they handled certain events. When Juliet hears of her marriage to Paris, she becomes hysterical. Crying and begging to hear me with patience but to speak a word. If Juliet had taken the situation more calmly, asking for some time and to get to know him better, she would have time to talk to Friar Laurence, make the plan, and get the plan to Romeo. They could have avoided all the problems that came from Romeo learning of Juliet’s supposed death. her body sleeps in capel’s monument”When Romeo hears of Juliet’s death from his servant, he also made a bad decision, he immediately decides that he didn’t have anything left to live for and decided to poison himself and die with Juliet. He didn’t take a second to even take in her death and what it meant and hops onto his horse and rides back to Verona and on the way buys poison. He takes the poison after killing Paris and dies. It’s understandable to be sad, but to immediately decided to kill yourself is a big step. Is a decision not made while in the right mental state.

He’s overridden with grief and not thinking enough to make such a big decision. One of the most direct, if not the most direct causes of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were each other. Romeo killed himself when he thought that Juliet was dead and Juliet killed herself when she saw Romeo’s dead body. Romeo planned his death, but Juliet decided on the spot to grab Romeo’s dagger and kill herself. They were each other’s downfall. All their decisions that lead to the tragedy were made so that they could be together. If they had never met, none of this would have happened. Juliet would be contentedly married to Paris. Romeo would still be obsessing over Rosaline, but they would still be locked in an everlasting feud.

One of the most important decisions made in the play was when Juliet took the potion. The day before she had gone to Friar Laurence to help her get out of the marriage to Paris and run away with Romeo. She asks the friar for help, and he comes up with the plan to fake her death. This was a huge decision that could go wrong in so many ways without really taking time to think it through. She dove right into it not even thinking of the consequences or the small but important details of the plan. If she had instead thought through everything and gone over the plan, they could have prepared for all the possibilities. When her dad changed the date, she made the quick decision to put the plan into motion a day earlier. Because of it starting earlier they could not do the necessary preparations and, the plan failed. Connect evidence to the thesis.

While the family grudge and Romeo and Juliet are partially responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, Fate was most to blame

In the first paragraph Shakespeare foreshadows the ending of the play and the important role of fate and destiny in the play. a pair of star crossed lovers take their lives . Romeo and Juliet’s relationship and deaths are inevitable, their paths were destined to cross at one point or another and die. Their lives were intertwined and foreseen in the stars. The entire plot of the play is revealed in the prologue of the first act. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Romeo at times felt the role of fate, when he got the feeling that something bad is going to happen, and he couldn’t do anything to stop it. Friar Laurence when he was marrying Romeo and Juliet knew that they might be happy now, but this passionate, wild and forbidden love was going to put in motion some bad things if they keep on going at the same pace. They need to slow down, or like the chemical reaction in gunpowder, everything is going to blow up. these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die like fire and powder. He is telling them that they should take time to develop their relationship and soon to be marriage.

But Romeo and Juliet were never able to put his advice to use, because soon after everything goes wrong when Romeo is at the wrong place at the wrong time. This () introduces another aspect of fate in the play, coincidence and bad timing. In the play, everything is going really well, and it seems as if the story is going to end in happily ever after until Romeo kills Tybalt. Things get even worse when Juliet’s gets engaged to Paris and the time frame shifts, ruining the plan. Juliet panics after her dad arranges her marriage to Paris. She runs to Friar Laurence, who makes the plan where Juliet is to fake her death, and they make the preparations to do it on Thursday. But when Lord Capulet, happy with Juliet’s consent, moves the marriage to Wednesday. Juliet is forced to make the decision to take the potion Wednesday night instead of Thursday. Because of it being a day earlier, Friar John isn’t able to get the information to Romeo, and Romeo thinks that Juliet is dead and plans his suicide. Romeo goes to Juliet, takes the potion, and a few minutes later Juliet wakes up. If Romeo had waited a little longer to take the poison he would be there when she woke up. Events happening too early ruined everything. Evidence 3 + connect evidence to the thesis.

Although the family grudge and Romeo and Juliet are partially responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, Fate was most to blame. + more sentences 2

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