“Fate doesn't care about your plans” by unknown. This is shown a lot in this play and this is true in every way. Sometimes your plans work out, but sometimes they do not work out. The play “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest tragedy play of all time. This play take place in Verona, Italy in the 19th century, where kings, queens, and servants still existed. This play is about two families’ vendetta, the Capulets and the Montagues, and two star crossed lovers Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet committing suicide ending their family feud, since their families would never let them be together. While this play may have seem like everyone played a major part leading to the death of Romeo and Juliet. Fate decided what would happen. This is shown when a servant invited …show more content…
So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed (Act V, scene i).
This meant that the Friar was visiting the a place and the plague infected someone, so they had to stay in the house until they thought that the plague went away. If the friar did not go to that house and the letter got Romeo would not have drank that poison and only Paris would have possibly died. Also if the plague hit somewhere else the letter would still be delivered. This supports that fate is at work here because the plague is supposed to be “random”, but it struck at the worst place possible. Romeo and Juliet might have the worst luck possible or fate just wants them to be not together.
The final example is that if fate woke Juliet up a few seconds earlier none of this would have happened. If Julie woke up a few minutes or seconds earlier, only Lady Montague and Paris might have died. She woke up literally a second after Romeo drank the poison,
JULIET: To help me after?
I will kiss thy lips.
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them.
To make me die with a