Romeo And Juliet Fate Vs Destiny

The characters in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and in Pyramus and Thisbe are affected more by their choices than by destiny.

Have you ever went to go plan something and things went totally wrong for reasons everyone can see but you? You over planned and under planned and people showed up to early and way too late. Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe did just this throughout their stories. They jumped to conclusions and death was the outcome. They put too much trust in themselves and others around them. The plans had so many What If’s and holes in them they were out right stupid.

Romeo and Juliet did not have to kill themselves over each other because of “love”. Romeo poisoned himself when he learned that Juliet was dead (Shakespeare
A common argument is ‘the odds were stacked against the lovers so unfairly it could only be fate’. What are the chances of the one night that Pyramus and Thisbe decided to meet, there would be a hungry lioness there to attack Thisbe? “But of a sudden she saw by the light of the moon a lioness” (Hamilton 488). To add on to that they also managed to arrive at the worst possible times. The cloak being ripped by the lioness and covered in blood near the lovers’ meeting spot is yet another example of fate, not a coincidence. “This is what Pyramus saw … the bloodstained shreds of the cloak and clear in the dust were the tracks of the lioness.” (Hamilton 488). Fate doesn’t just show itself in Pyramus and Thisbe, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has some of its own coincidences that are too fishy too be true. When Lord Capulet decided to hold the wedding extremely short notice, for no reason, dooming the couple’s chances, that could be described as fate. Of course, the whole fact that both these lovers managed to fall in love despite the world not wanting them too could be attributed to
Romeo and Juliet had little to no idea on what was going on throughout their story and Pyramus and Thisbe didn’t plan properly for each other to be at their meeting place on time. Again leading to the deaths of many in both stories. Thisbe and Pyramus had decided one night that they would run away together and meet by a tomb (Hamilton 488). On the same page Thisbe discovers that Pyramus didn’t show up on time, which was, in theory, an error in planning. Romeo shows up to the tomb where Juliet lay in wait, in a coma, to early and since he believes she is dead (another error) he drinks the poison he had bought and kills himself (Shakespeare 471-473). Leading Juliet to wake up a few minutes later, finding Romeo dead, and commits suicide herself. If they had planned this better and made sure that everyone involved knew the Juliet was alive and when she was to wake it would have ended better. Along with Thisbe and Pyramus knowing for a fact when to meet each other at the tomb death could have been