Fate In The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

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The characters in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet have problems because of fate. Fate is the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. Juliet has many reminisces about her future and how it will turn-out so she knew that her fate was to die and other people’s fate because of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship they caused these injuries or deaths to other characters in the play. Within the premonitions she knows what is to come and what will happen in a short per iod of time. As a matter of fact, Juliet has a terrible premonition (3.5.53-56) foreshadowing a tragic event. “Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul methinks I see thee, now thou art below, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either

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