Fate In The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is the tale of starcrossed lovers, who come from two feuding families, the Capulets, and the Montagues. During the time period when the Montagues and Capulets lived, they believed that whatever arises amid their lives is imminent and all events are predetermined and arranged before them like a road map to life; otherwise known as, fate. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare supports that humans are sentenced to an inevitable fate through symbolism, the character of Romeo and irony. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses symbolism to exemplify how fate is inevitable. The biggest symbol from the beginning to the end, is the stars. The stars represent one’s fate, and it was believed that the stars determined what happened
After Juliet is wed to Romeo, he gets caught in another fight with the Capulets. His attempt to make peace between Mercutio and Tybalt, ends up in Mercutio’s death and an intensification of the war between the Capulets and Montagues. Romeo slaughters Tybalt, fating his exile, in which he heads to Verona. Instead of Romeo showing up to make peace, Mercutio is dead and as a part of his fate, he kills Mercutio’s slayer. While Romeo is in Verona, Juliet and Friar Lawrence concoct a potion to avoid a dual marriage of Romeo to Juliet, and Juliet to Paris. When Juliet is pronounced believably dead, Balthasar, Romeo’s man, comes to report the heartbreaking news, but the audience knows that Friar John is supposed to deliver him a letter. A letter in which would explain the overall idea of the plan he thought of, to help Romeo and Juliet be together without anymore trouble, but “It is in the execution of this plan that Friar Laurence next stumbles. He fails to inform Romeo that Juliet’s death is just a ruse. Romeo, thinking Juliet really is dead, comes to her in the tomb, drinks poison, and dies…. he (Friar Lawrence) does not tell Friar John of the significance of the missive he carries; hence, Friar John has no great commitment to the letter’s immediate delivery, and is, in fact, detained. Finally, after Friar Laurence learns that the letter has not been delivered, he hurries to the tomb, only to arrive too late—Romeo has already poisoned himself” (Stephen F.). Friar Lawrence’s plan develops into an entanglement of miscommunications and cursed timing. He neglected to tell Friar John that Romeo needed to be informed with this letter as soon as possible, for detrimental consequences may be following. It was only fate, that Friar John was contained for a feared disease, and that he was not able to hand over the