Fate As A Lethal Weapon In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Fate: a Lethal Weapon
In the time of Shakespeare everyone considered their life already planned out by the stars, also name as “Fate”. “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” is a story of two young “star- crossed” lovers trying to defy their fate but end up dying because of it. Fate plays a major role in the story of Romeo and Juliet that lead the children to kill themselves just to be together. Fate is at the fault of Romeo and Juliet because during the story there were many acts that just fell into play that made the characters fall in love and eventually kill themselves. An instance of this is that Romeo just happens to run into the servant carrying the invites and saw Rosaline’s name. Another is that after the masquerade Juliet just happens to come onto the balcony just as Romeo arrives to spy on her. Lastly, if Juliet would have not rambled all the possibilities of the potion and just drank it she would have woken up in time to stop Romeo from drinking his poison.

This can be proved by “R. Stay, fellow; I can read. ‘Signior Martino and his wife and daughters; County Anselm and his beauteous sisters; The lady widow of Vitruvio; Signior Placentio and his lovely nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; Mine uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters; My fair niece Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin Tybalt; Lucio and the lively Helena.’ A fair assembly. Whither should they come?” (1.2.64-74) as aforementioned fate is the reason that Romeo just happened to run into the servant at the exact right time that was handing out the invitations to the party that he met Juliet at. This is a fate’s hand because there a millions of possible outcomes that could have avoided this and Romeo and Juliet would have never