Dbq The Role Of Fate In Romeo And Juliet

Additionally, Fate is another hurdle Romeo and Juliet have to jump over,except this one appears in several scenes as the source of blame for death of the two. In the play’s Prologue the line, ”A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life”, appears. This line suggests Romeo and Juliet were bound to fall in love with each from their first breath because it is stating their love was written in the stars and the families they were born to wasn’t a coincidence but a destined event. As the Prologue continues it announces how the star-cross’d lovers have a death-mark’d love. Their love being described as death-mark’d is a bad omen because it is foretelling how Romeo and Juliet’s destinies are entwined,which will bring their deaths. Fate has already decided these
The second time he’s speaking to Juliet after Romeo had recently killed himself and she had awaken from her slumber,”A greater power than we can contradict, hath thwarted our intents…”(Doc E-A5,S3). The second time Friar Lawrence speaks of Fate he calls it a ‘greater power’, because Fate can’t be controlled. The pieces of Romeo and Juliet lives had already been set by Fate,but the issue with Fate is it balances the dire problems meaning the only way for Fate to change is for the uniformed factors which caused fate to become involved to change first. Fate is at fault similar to the other obstacles for Romeo and Juliet’s death, but it is at fault more than the other obstacles because without Fate none of the obstacles would have been created, which means Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t have been needed, which would end the existence of Juliet and her Romeo before it ever did exist. Fate is the most responsible of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because it knew the outcomes of what was to happen when nobody else did,but didn’t try to stop their destinies. This makes Fate the most at fault because it knew from the start, yet still watched the story unfold to its doing damning Romeo and Juliet to an early