Shakespeare explores fate in Romeo and Juliet, like when a servant from the Capulet household cannot read so he goes up to Romeo and asks him if he can read and he says ” Ay,mine own fortune in my misery” and sees Rosline’s name on the party list and then the servant says “Now I’ll tell you without asking. My master is the great rich Capulet, and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry” so he decides to go so he can talk to Rosline but when he gets there he falls in love with another girl called Juliet.
Another way Shakespeare explores fate in Romeo and Juliet is when Friar Lawrence sends Friar John to Mantua to give the letter to Romeo about his and Juliet’s plan, but it does not make it to Romeo because, in a town near Mantua a disease has started spreading, so they stop Friar John from entering Mantua with the letter and instead they decide to put Friar John in quarantine for a week so he cannot get to Romeo. ” I could not send it – here it is again – nor get a messenger to bring it thee , so fearful were they of infection.”
Another time Shakespeare explores fate in Romeo and Juliet is when Romeo kills Tybalt. This is fate because, the day Romeo kills Tybalt he married Juliet, so that made him become Tybalt’s cousin, so technically he murders his relative. Also Tybalt killed a family member because Mercutio is related to Romeo, so that means Tybalt and Mercutio are related by marriage.
Another time there is fate in Romeo and Juliet is when Romeo gets told by Balthazar that Juliet is dead, but a letter is coming from Friar Lawrence. Also Romeo goes to the Apothecary and asks for a poison that will kill him .
It is fate that Capulet wants to marry Juliet to Paris 3 days after she has married Romeo. It is fate when Romeo arrives at the tomb and Paris, already there, sees Juliet and decides to have a fight with Romeo.
There is also fate for Juliet because, when Romeo takes the potion that he got from the Apothecary, Juliet wakes up and sees Paris dead on the floor. She also sees Romeo take the potion but, as he puts the potion in his mouth, she grabs his arm, but it was too late, he had already swallowed the poison . So, Juliet starts talking to him saying “did you not get the letter that Friar Lawrence sent you?” and he says “what letter? I did not get a letter from Friar Lawrence”. As Romeo dies in her arms Juliet begins to cry and become very depressed and sees Romeo’s dagger beside her death bed and picks it up and stabs herself.
There is also fate when Page goes and gets The Watch. When they get there, Friar Lawrence is there and they start questioning him about what happened. He gets scared and confesses his plan. He says that Romeo got banished to Mantua, and Juliet became depressed and asked him for help so she did not have to marry Paris. So, he said that he would help and he made a sleeping potion that would make her sleep for 48 hours. Then he said that he would give her the potion, and was going to write a letter for Romeo too because he was involved in the plan. So, he wrote the letter and gave it to Friar John to give to Romeo but, he was not able to give the letter to Romeo because he got stopped in a city nearby because there was a disease in the city. Friar John then came back and told Friar Lawrence the situation, which was that he could not give the letter to Romeo because he got stopped in a city nearby because a disease had begun to spread, so Friar Lawrence said “Friar John, go hence,get me an iron crow and bring it straight unto my cell” “but I will write again to Mantua and keep her at my cell till Romeo come poor living course clos’d in a dead man’s tomb” . So Friar John said, “brother I’ll go and bring it thee” and Friar Lawrence said “I need it to break Juliet out tonight because she is going to wake up and be scared because she will be around all her dead relatives so I will get her and bring her here so she will not be scared”. Then Friar John said, ” yes, I will go fetch the crowbar”. Then The Watch began to question Balthazar and he said “Romeo is here because I told him that Juliet was dead and, because they are married, he ran here to say goodbye and that he was going to lay beside her and take his life”.
There is fate in Romeo and Juliet because, at the beginning Sampson and Gregory are talking to each other, and then Abraham and Balthazar arrive and they all start arguing, then they start fighting, and Benvolio from the Montague family breaks it up. As he breaks it up, Tybalt comes round the corner and starts shouting at Benvolio saying,”why are you drawing at the Capulet House? You Montague” then they start fighting and then Prince Escales comes round the corner and breaks up the fight and says that anyone caught fighting, Capulet or Montague, get banished .This is fate because Prince Escales is part of the Montague family. There is also fate at the end because, when Romeo and Juliet died with each other in the Capulet tomb, the families found out about the plan and how they were in love and married, so they started talking and said, “look what our feud has done, it has made our kids take their lives because they thought there was no other way to be together and then they decided to be friends and, because they are such good friends, the Capulet family will put up a gold statue of Romeo in their garden and the Montague family will put up a statue of Juliet in their garden for respect and they said that they would bury them together. Also there is fate when Tybalt dies because he dies on the day that his cousin Juliet got married to Romeo. Also, it was fate when Juliet took the sleeping potion because the day she took it was the day she was going to marry Paris.
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by Louis parsons.
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