Romeo and Juliet Fate Essay

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    Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, the two main characters suicide after one thought that the other one was dead but wasn’t. Romeo saw Juliet lying inside the tomb, but she didn't die she was just under a death-like potion to make her look dead. Romeo took a poison so he kills himself like he can’t live without his wife Juliet and while he drinks the poison, Juliet starts waking up from the potion but it was too late. As said before Romeo can’t live without Juliet the same way is with Juliet she can’t…

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    In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, an obvious confusion dealing with the main characters’ death is present. As Joseph Pearce adequately stated, three separate motives for Romeo and Juliet’s death are possible. The first is the fighting between the Montagues and Capulets. Even the prologue says “…the continuance of their parents’ rage” (Prologue, line 10) did not help their children’s struggle. The parents were oblivious to their children’s problems. The second is the young lovers’ haste.…

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    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a story about true love doomed to the worse of fates. Mercutio, kinsman to the Prince and friend to Romeo, pushes the story forward at the beginning with his encouragement of Romeo to have fun and forget his past love. Farther in the story he helps bring out the theme of hate and sorrow, because of his feud and dislike for Tybalt (nephew to Lady Capulet).which causes the tragic ending. Mercutio encourages Romeo to have fun “we must have you dance.”.…

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    Perhaps, the most intriguing aspect, in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, is the role that fate plays in the final outcome of the lovers. This is prominent in the following: when Romeo meets Juliet, when Tybalt and Mercutio die and Romeo is banished and finally, when Friar Laurence’s letter about Juliet fails to reach Romeo. All of these events, as well as many others are connected. Unfortunately for Romeo and Juliet, this theme is so dominant that it leads to their ultimate demise. To…

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    controlled their fate. Romeo and Juliet had to have been victims of fate because stars controlled them. Shakespeare uses careful word choice to directly and indirectly reveal that his characters believe this. On the way to Capulet’s party, Romeo and his friends are talking. Romeo suddenly says, “My mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars” (1.4.106-7), and continues to announce his foreboding feelings that the outcome of that night would not be in his favor. Somehow, Romeo…

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    The dire fate of many of the people in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is influenced by the temperament of some of the characters. During the story, two children of feuding families, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, fall in love and agree to marry without their parent’s involvement. After the wedding, Romeo kills the cousin of Juliet during a duel and is punished with banishment. Juliet fakes her own death and Romeo kills himself in response. If Romeo was not desperate and dramatic, the…

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    389) Romeo and Juliet by william shakespeare, is a drama. Romeo and Juliet is about two teenagers born in different families that are in a family feud. These to teenagers end up falling in love but because of the fight between the two houses a tragedy of romeo and juliet end the fight because of their death. The theme of of romeo and juliet is “which is more important in determining our destiny?” Free will is what determines our destiny. The theme is revealed in act 4 when Juliet drinks…

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    William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a thrilling love story with a doleful finale. This play showcases the epic love between young Romeo and Juliet. Yet the back end of this play diverges when the star crossed lovers take their own lives. Which in turn creates a tragedy out of this romance. Nonetheless, there is always a party to blame for a circumstance. It would be simple to blame destiny, or fate, or the ancient conflict between the Capulets and Montages. However due to their immature…

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    do not always have a plesant endings, Romeo and Juliet being one of the few. In one of Shakespeare's most well known plays, Romeo and Juliet, there can be several phrases seen throughout writing that tell you that “fate” is at play. Simple phrases like “fatal loins” and “star crossed lovers” help show the audience that the deaths were meant to be, and nothing could have prevented Romeo and Juliet from taking their own lives. From early on in the play, the fate motif is not what is to blame for…

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    lovers” are a pair whose love is doomed by fate to fail as found in the most iconic romance in all of literature, Romeo and Juliet. Long before modern authors wove tales of forbidden love, William Shakespeare created a story entirely entwined with the concepts of fate and predetermined destiny. Throughout the story the concepts of predetermined destiny are relevant in the characters, the structure of the story, and the plot. In the play, the concepts of fate are foreshadowed and indicated by…

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