Romeo And Juliet Fate Quotes

Romeo Montague is the quite possibly the most flawed character in all of literature. His own selfishness seals others and his own fate. He even goes on a selfish farewell speech before he kills himself over “love.” Romeo’s farewell speech illustrates this fate that is decided by his actions towards others as demonstrated by Tybalt, Mercutio, and most of all Romeo himself. Romeo is the character with the most fateful consequences throughout the play. Romeo's eventual fate is predictable and caked in Romeo's vivid personality traits made clear throughout the play. Mercutio and Tybalt’s fates are defined by their actions toward the Capulets and Montagues respectively. Which was leaving dead by the hands of the rival family in are scenes that

The culmination of all of this comes during Romeo’s monologue right next to his beloved unconscious Juliet which at the time he thinks she is dead. In his sorrows, all he talks about is his misfortunes and sacrifices and his fate not bothering to think about anyone else’s. This is glaringly apparent when Romeo proceeds to use the letter “I” instead of we and says things such as “For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,” Instead of saying “We will stay with each other,” (RM). Not only does say that a few time he proceeds to use “I” instead of “we” four more times. This can be interpreted as the idea that it’s Romeo fault for the death of Juliet because of brash overconfidence, dramaticism, and most all his exuberantly obvious complete and other lack to take into the emotions of the others around and be absolutely

Mercutio’s death is practically almost accidental but points a lot of the blame at Romeo. Mercutio talks about how he is a victim in the war of ego and selfishness between the houses using specific language to garner this idea of the silly feud truncating his life such as “A plague a’ both your houses!(3.1)” which is him blaming the silly feud on pumped up egos of both of the houses including Romeo. Another quote relating to this is “Why the devil came you between us.(3.1)” which is Mercutio saying Romeo that him trying to break up the fight possibly to bolster his own ego or just to help his viewed upon henchmen out it was the reason he was stabbed, which in fact coats Mercutio’s death in the egoistic mindset of the Capulets and Montagues and this death is another step in sealing Romeo’s fate