Fate In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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What if I told you everything happens for a reason? Let me show some examples. I am going to be telling about Romeo and Juliet by William
Shakespeare. There were a man and woman of two rival families, and they fell hopelessly in love despite the family’s differences. Yet fate takes their toll and kills them. The reason they are killed is because of fate and their family feud. The way their families fought, it was just fate they would die. Two rival families shouldn’t be together. Someone might think Romeo and Juliet dying was just a series of unfortunate events. Well, everyone has a fate, and everyone has differences with someone. Their love was never supposed to work in the first place. No one should have died if they just minded their own business and didn’t fall in love. Let me say some more things about fate. Fate isn’t something that just happens, fate is beyond control. In Act 1, Scene 4 Romeo states that he thinks something bad might happen to him.
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Shall bitterly begin his fearful date.” Right there, he literally says there is a consequence destined to happen. Right after that in Act 1 Scene 5 Juliet says something a bit out of the ordinary. JULIET “My grave is like to be my wedding bed.” She almost exactly predicts her own death, something like that isn’t just something out of nowhere. Again, fate is among them. In Act 5, Scene 1 he states that he has a dream about his death. ROMEO “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead. Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think” In this quote Romeo had a dream of how Juliet found him dead, on actually came to happen. Fate is everywhere in this story. Now I will tell how the family rivalry had some play on

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