The Theme Of Fate In Romeo And Juliet By Lemony Snicket

As Lemony Snicket once said, “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.” Romeo and Juliet sitting at this restaurant Snicket describes, what they ordered anyone could ask for- to live happily ever after with their true love. Yet they were served with a tragical love story where death encloses the act. Shakespeare writes the play of two star crossed lovers with rivaling families, yet their destiny is to meet and fall in love with each other. Many times in Romeo and Juliet, they come across barriers but fate breaks right through them. It finds a way through family rivalries and brings the two together by virtue of destiny. Shakespeare’s play depicts the theme of fate and its major role in the love-affair of Romeo and Juliet.
There are several examples within the play that exhibit Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is destiny. Peter is a servant who invites guests to a Capulet feast. “Now I’ll tell you without asking. My master is a great rich Capulet, and, if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry.” (I, 2, 85-88) Peter runs into Romeo and Benvolio on the street and because Peter is illiterate, he by mistake, invites the two. If Peter never runs into Romeo he wouldn’t ever go to the party and set eyes on Juliet. This invitation to the Capulet party was compelled from an already predetermined course,