The Fate of Two Star-Cross’d Lovers
"Romeo and Juliet", one of the world’s best known love stories of all time, is about a beautiful love connection between two lovers who brought together by fate. In the play, Shakespeare eludes through his characters and extensive use of foreshadowing the inevitability of fate.
One character who used foreshadowing to represent the significance of fate was Benvolio. Trying to talk Romeo out of his love-sickness for Rosaline, Benvolio advises him, “Take thou some new infection to thy eye,\ And the rank poison of the old will die” (I.ii.51-52). The inevitability of fate was definitely projected in this scene considering Peter (a servant for the Capulets’) could have asked any other person on the street to read
"Romeo and Juliet", one of the world’s best known love stories of all time, is about a beautiful love connection between two lovers who brought together by fate. In the play, Shakespeare eludes through his characters and extensive use of foreshadowing the inevitability of fate.
One character who used foreshadowing to represent the significance of fate was Benvolio. Trying to talk Romeo out of his love-sickness for Rosaline, Benvolio advises him, “Take thou some new infection to thy eye,\ And the rank poison of the old will die” (I.ii.51-52). The inevitability of fate was definitely projected in this scene considering Peter (a servant for the Capulets’) could have asked any other person on the street to read