Destiny And Fate In Shakespeare's 'Romeo And Juliet'
Andrea Dorsey
K. Freeman
English I – 4th Hour
06 March 2014
Romeo & Juliet Dreams and fate are defined as a force, principle or power that predetermines events; it is the inevitable events that are destined by this force. Romeo and Juliet's fates were intertwined from the moment of their birth, families driven by hate pushing two young lovers together. At their age, love can seem like the only aspect of life. Having fate overtaken their thoughts and lives. If fate is real then there was nothing that anyone could have done to help these star-crossed lovers from their path. Most people say that the power of destiny and dreams had a big impact on William Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet”
In “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare looks into the …show more content…
To begin with, Mercutio is telling Romeo about dreams. Only because Romeo has told Mercutio he has had a dream of Rosaline and himself. He has said that he does not want Romeo to believe in dreams because they are not real and for children. He tells Romeo, that Queen Mab makes him see what he wants to see, therefore making his dream unreal. Romeo tells him that what he has said it nonsense. Mercutio then tells Romeo, “True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind, who woos. Even now the frozen bosom of the North and, being angered, puffs away from thence, turning his side to the dew-dropping South.” in act I, scene iv, lines 96-103. This quote matters because Mercutio says dreams are nothing but in the play, dreams are everything. He also states that dreams get you nowhere but in the story look at how Romeo and Juliet’s dreams foreshadowed their deaths. Shakespeare is trying to show that through this speech we begin to see that things aren't the way they appear. Romeo's love for Rosaline and his love for Juliet are more than just the surface infatuation they appear to be. We see some of the foreshadowing of dark events to
K. Freeman
English I – 4th Hour
06 March 2014
Romeo & Juliet Dreams and fate are defined as a force, principle or power that predetermines events; it is the inevitable events that are destined by this force. Romeo and Juliet's fates were intertwined from the moment of their birth, families driven by hate pushing two young lovers together. At their age, love can seem like the only aspect of life. Having fate overtaken their thoughts and lives. If fate is real then there was nothing that anyone could have done to help these star-crossed lovers from their path. Most people say that the power of destiny and dreams had a big impact on William Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet”
In “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare looks into the …show more content…
To begin with, Mercutio is telling Romeo about dreams. Only because Romeo has told Mercutio he has had a dream of Rosaline and himself. He has said that he does not want Romeo to believe in dreams because they are not real and for children. He tells Romeo, that Queen Mab makes him see what he wants to see, therefore making his dream unreal. Romeo tells him that what he has said it nonsense. Mercutio then tells Romeo, “True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind, who woos. Even now the frozen bosom of the North and, being angered, puffs away from thence, turning his side to the dew-dropping South.” in act I, scene iv, lines 96-103. This quote matters because Mercutio says dreams are nothing but in the play, dreams are everything. He also states that dreams get you nowhere but in the story look at how Romeo and Juliet’s dreams foreshadowed their deaths. Shakespeare is trying to show that through this speech we begin to see that things aren't the way they appear. Romeo's love for Rosaline and his love for Juliet are more than just the surface infatuation they appear to be. We see some of the foreshadowing of dark events to