The Inevitability Of Fate In Romeo And Juliet

Many believe fate to be true, something that outlines your future and end. People may be Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and so on, but they may still believe in fate. Fate is not really a belief but a story, a story of a person’s life and how their life affected others’. The inevitability of fate is different, because it is a belief that says you can not change your life, life is no longer a story to be written but a written story. Inevitability of fate is seen many times throughout the site of Romeo and Juliet; however, one can not tell if the outcomes are consequences of actions or truly the inevitability of fate. The first and most obvious evidence of the inevitability of fate is in the prologue starting on line 5, “From forth the fatal loins
of these two foes/A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;/Whose misadventured piteous overthrows/Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife” (5-8). These lines show that the entire story is laid out before the story even began. Romeo and Juliet can do whatever they want but the major story developments will never change. They will fall in love, commit suicide, ending their parents’ conflict which could only be stopped by their death also stated in the prologue as, “And the continuance of their parents’ rage,/Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove (10-11),” This quite furthers the fact that Romeo’s and Juliet’s final fate is to end their parents’ conflict by dying.