Fate in Romeo and Juliet
Do you believe in fate? To answer the question, you must first have a correct idea of what fate is. A definition of fate would be the power that is supposed to settle ahead of time how things will happen. Could there be such a power that rules our lives, and if so, why? Romeo and Juliet, the two young lovers in William Shakespeare’ s Romeo and Juliet, ended up becoming a large part of what could be called “fate”. Fate seemed to control their lives and force them together, becoming a large part of their love, and the ending of their parent’s hatred. Fate became the ultimate control power in this play, and plays a large part in modern everyday life, even if we don’t recognize it. Maybe we don’t recognize it because we choose not to, or don’t have faith like we used to, but the fact remains that fate controls what we do throughout all of our lives. A large part of the beliefs for both Romeo and Juliet involve fate. They believed in the stars, and that their actions weren’t always their own. Romeo, for example, 1.4.115-120, he says, “Some consequence yet hanging in the stars…by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage over my course Direct my sail.” He’s basically saying
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Approximate Word count = 1877
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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