Rough draft: Fate and Destiny in Romeo and Juliet “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”(Shakespeare IIii 36). This famous line is from none other than one Shakespeare’s plays known as Romeo and Juliet. The play takes place in Verona, Italy where we meet two teenagers from wealthy backgrounds and opposing families. The two youth end up falling in love and marry against their parents and guardians wishes. This makes life hard for the lovers and those involved in the lovers lives as they try to keep their relationship a secret and prevent conflicts between their households. All of this leads to the banishment of Romeo and the two lovers ultimately killing themselves for the sake of love. The main factor controlling
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When the plan that Friar Laurence, the person who married Romeo and Juliet, had made failed things started to spiral into chaos. The plan involved Juliet drinking a deep sleep potion on the night before her wedding day and Romeo would then come 42 hours later to rescue her from the tomb then they could live happily together. But on Tuesday evening when Juliet found out that her wedding date to Paris, her forced betrothed, had been moved up she drank the potion the Friar gave her later that evening. Then with the change of plans the window of opportunity of alerting Romeo was very short. “Romeo! O, pale! … Ah, what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance!” (Shakespeare Viii 156-158). This quote means that when the messenger, Friar Laurence had come to save Romeo it was too late ultimate end had already come because when Romeo finds what he presumes to be a dead Juliet he plans to kill himself which is his end. “Here’s to my true apothecary. Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”(Shakespeare Vii 117-118). Romeo’s death comes soon before Juliet awakes and the Friar comes a couple minutes in between these two events. Friar left Juliet alone with her dead loved one and she kills herself as well. All of these quotes show how fate ultimately controlled Romeo and Juliet’s destiny of dying together instead of having a story book
When the plan that Friar Laurence, the person who married Romeo and Juliet, had made failed things started to spiral into chaos. The plan involved Juliet drinking a deep sleep potion on the night before her wedding day and Romeo would then come 42 hours later to rescue her from the tomb then they could live happily together. But on Tuesday evening when Juliet found out that her wedding date to Paris, her forced betrothed, had been moved up she drank the potion the Friar gave her later that evening. Then with the change of plans the window of opportunity of alerting Romeo was very short. “Romeo! O, pale! … Ah, what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance!” (Shakespeare Viii 156-158). This quote means that when the messenger, Friar Laurence had come to save Romeo it was too late ultimate end had already come because when Romeo finds what he presumes to be a dead Juliet he plans to kill himself which is his end. “Here’s to my true apothecary. Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”(Shakespeare Vii 117-118). Romeo’s death comes soon before Juliet awakes and the Friar comes a couple minutes in between these two events. Friar left Juliet alone with her dead loved one and she kills herself as well. All of these quotes show how fate ultimately controlled Romeo and Juliet’s destiny of dying together instead of having a story book