Fate In Romeo And Juliet

The concept of fate in Romeo and Juliet is big. Everything that happened in the play was because of fate, two star-crossed lover from feuding families. The outome is very irregular. Fate is also a tangable fact in the play and the characters know that.

Romeo: Stay, fellow. I can read. (He reads the letter.) (I.ii.68). In this quote Romeo was conversing with a Servingman about the list for the Capulet’s masquerade. He needed help realding because he didn’t know how to read. Romeo decides that he is going to the masquerade. This encounter enables Romeo to see who will be coming to the party , he has interest in the guest which leads him to partake in this party. This is fate because if Romeo never would have ran into the Servingman he never would have gone to that party, then he never would have met Juliet and fall in love with her. It is fate that made this encounter happen. It was an enormous domino effect that fate was apart of.

Romeo: I fear, too early, for my mind misgives/Some consequence yet hanging in the stars

Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night's revels, and expire the term

(I.iv.113-118). Before the party, where Romeo is to meet his soon to be wife that he will soon die for, he speaks of a funny feeling and misfortune. He also talks about a fearful date. This is fate because Romeo talks about a “consequence yet hanging in the stars”. Decoded it means that he there is something destined to happen that night. That night he met his star-crossed lover Juliet which was their fate, he also says that this event would end in “untimely death” which is also foreshadowing for Romeo and Juliet’s death, which is also their