In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, the characters are an unlikely match with a regrettable death. The lovers are doomed from the beginning by the horrible feud that’s going on between the two houses, the Montagues and the Capulets. Fate plays a major role in their seemingly predictable demise. Shakespeare uses many different themes throughout the story such as fate, to show the love behind their actions.
Fate is displayed toward the beginning of the story through Peter’s illiteracy and Lord Capulet’s hospitality. Peter, Lord Capulet’s messenger, was told to take the message with him to find everyone on it and invite them to the gathering at the Capulets home. Peter is given the letter and he says to himself, “Find them out whose names …show more content…
The prince states, “Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-stainèd steel!— Will they not hear?—What, ho! You men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins, On pain of torture, from those bloody hands Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground, And hear the sentence of your movèd prince. Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets And made Verona’s ancient citizens Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans in hands as old, Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate. If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. For this time, all the rest depart away. You, Capulet, shall go along with me, And, Montague, come you this afternoon To know our farther pleasure in this case, To old Free-town, our common judgment-place. Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.” (Act 1, Scene 1, Page 6, Lines 72-93) The prince is getting angry because this is the third time riots have broke out in the city of Verona because of the two houses. The prince warns that if it ever happens again they would pay for the riot with their lives. Tybalt and Mercutio battle it out in the street leading to Mercutio’s death. Tybalt should be killed because he shed blood in …show more content…
Friar Lawrence hears Friar John returning to Verona and greets him with, “Welcome to Mantua. What says Romeo? Or if his mind be writ, give me his letter” (Act 5, Scene 2, Lines 3-4) to which Friar John responds, “Going to find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me, Here in this city visiting the sick, And finding him, the searchers of the town, Suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth. So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed.”(Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 5-12) Friar Lawrence wants to know how Romeo responded to his letter, but Friar John informs him that he went to find another friar to accompany him on the journey and he got stuck in the city because the health officials thought they had been in a home with the plague. They were quarantined so the plague would not spread and they would not let them leave so he did not make it to Mantua where Romeo was staying. When Friar Lawrence learns of this information and that no one got the letter to Romeo he immediately asked for a iron crowbar to go get Juliet from the monument. When Friar Lawrence arrives at the tomb he realizes he did not make it in time. When the friar arrives at the monument he sees Balthasar and asks him how long Romeo has been in the tomb and when Balthasar responds with a half a hour the friar immediately thinks
Fate is displayed toward the beginning of the story through Peter’s illiteracy and Lord Capulet’s hospitality. Peter, Lord Capulet’s messenger, was told to take the message with him to find everyone on it and invite them to the gathering at the Capulets home. Peter is given the letter and he says to himself, “Find them out whose names …show more content…
The prince states, “Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-stainèd steel!— Will they not hear?—What, ho! You men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins, On pain of torture, from those bloody hands Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground, And hear the sentence of your movèd prince. Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets And made Verona’s ancient citizens Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans in hands as old, Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate. If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. For this time, all the rest depart away. You, Capulet, shall go along with me, And, Montague, come you this afternoon To know our farther pleasure in this case, To old Free-town, our common judgment-place. Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.” (Act 1, Scene 1, Page 6, Lines 72-93) The prince is getting angry because this is the third time riots have broke out in the city of Verona because of the two houses. The prince warns that if it ever happens again they would pay for the riot with their lives. Tybalt and Mercutio battle it out in the street leading to Mercutio’s death. Tybalt should be killed because he shed blood in …show more content…
Friar Lawrence hears Friar John returning to Verona and greets him with, “Welcome to Mantua. What says Romeo? Or if his mind be writ, give me his letter” (Act 5, Scene 2, Lines 3-4) to which Friar John responds, “Going to find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me, Here in this city visiting the sick, And finding him, the searchers of the town, Suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth. So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed.”(Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 5-12) Friar Lawrence wants to know how Romeo responded to his letter, but Friar John informs him that he went to find another friar to accompany him on the journey and he got stuck in the city because the health officials thought they had been in a home with the plague. They were quarantined so the plague would not spread and they would not let them leave so he did not make it to Mantua where Romeo was staying. When Friar Lawrence learns of this information and that no one got the letter to Romeo he immediately asked for a iron crowbar to go get Juliet from the monument. When Friar Lawrence arrives at the tomb he realizes he did not make it in time. When the friar arrives at the monument he sees Balthasar and asks him how long Romeo has been in the tomb and when Balthasar responds with a half a hour the friar immediately thinks