R&J Essay
Romeo and Juliet, one of the saddest and most well known stories of all time. But one questions lingers on everyone who reads it’s mind. Was it fate that caused the terrible deaths or was it their own faults. If ir is really looked at closed, it is evident that it was fate that caused this to happen because, so many things went wrong that had to line up perfectly, timing was just non realistic, and it comes out and says it was fate in the prologue.
First, things that shouldn’t have went wrong, did. The friar's words in act 5 scene 3 lines 252-293 Friar Laurence supplies a plethora of things that went wrong. From Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, to their marriage which caused it all. Imagine all the things that went wrong, Tybalt’s death, Mercutio’s death, Romeo showing up too early, the message not getting through, Juliet’s parent wanting her to marry Paris, and that’s just a few. All in all it seems just a case of bad luck because there’s no way all of this could go wrong if it wasn’t “supposed to”. …show more content…
First, Mercutio’s death. In the stage directions in act 3 scene 1 between lines 90-95, it says, “Tybalt, under Romeo’s arm, thrusts Mercutio in, and flies with his men.” This shows how fate meant for this to happen, Romeo jumped in to help and ended up getting one of his best friends killed by a man who didn’t even mean to do it. Juliet marries just before her parents want her to marry someone else, Friar John happening to need to deliver a letter just when the plague came through and the town was quarantined, and the granddaddy of them all, Romeo showing up just a little early and thinking that Juliet is dead. These time discrepancies were just days, in Romeo’s case, just minutes, and there is no way any of this goes this wrong without some help from
Romeo and Juliet, one of the saddest and most well known stories of all time. But one questions lingers on everyone who reads it’s mind. Was it fate that caused the terrible deaths or was it their own faults. If ir is really looked at closed, it is evident that it was fate that caused this to happen because, so many things went wrong that had to line up perfectly, timing was just non realistic, and it comes out and says it was fate in the prologue.
First, things that shouldn’t have went wrong, did. The friar's words in act 5 scene 3 lines 252-293 Friar Laurence supplies a plethora of things that went wrong. From Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, to their marriage which caused it all. Imagine all the things that went wrong, Tybalt’s death, Mercutio’s death, Romeo showing up too early, the message not getting through, Juliet’s parent wanting her to marry Paris, and that’s just a few. All in all it seems just a case of bad luck because there’s no way all of this could go wrong if it wasn’t “supposed to”. …show more content…
First, Mercutio’s death. In the stage directions in act 3 scene 1 between lines 90-95, it says, “Tybalt, under Romeo’s arm, thrusts Mercutio in, and flies with his men.” This shows how fate meant for this to happen, Romeo jumped in to help and ended up getting one of his best friends killed by a man who didn’t even mean to do it. Juliet marries just before her parents want her to marry someone else, Friar John happening to need to deliver a letter just when the plague came through and the town was quarantined, and the granddaddy of them all, Romeo showing up just a little early and thinking that Juliet is dead. These time discrepancies were just days, in Romeo’s case, just minutes, and there is no way any of this goes this wrong without some help from