Romeo And Juliet Flaws

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In the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare proposes a major theme to whether it was fate or flaw that killed Romeo and his lover Juliet. Fate is defined as the development of events beyond a person's control while flaw is defined as a fault or weakness in a person's character. The answer to whether fate or flaw killed the two lovers is quite simple. Fate is what killed Romeo and Juliet. Flaws are something that are in you and you develop. Just as the flaw that Romeo would act out on impulse than rather thinking it out. If he was to actually sit back and think about what he was going to do next, a lot in the play could have been different. But personality is something you make; you develop. But fate, is something that is already …show more content…

Unfortunately for Romeo, Rosaline did not return the feelings. Heartbroken, Romeo is swayed by Benvolio to attend the Capulet Ball to find another girl who catches his eyes in order to get over Rosaline. Before Romeo heads over to the Capulet ball, where he falls in love with Juliet, as an instance of foreshadowing, it is told that he has a feeling of something "hanging in the stars" will be set in motion that night. “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, Of a despised life closed in my breast, By some vile forfeit of untimely death.” (Act 1, scene …show more content…

then I defy you stars!” claiming that he will find way to go against the way the stars are trying to tell him how to live which is a separate path from where Juliet’s stars want to take her. Even from the beginning of the play, Romeo refers to the stars that allowed for the two lovers to meet but the stars never promised to keep the love. But the way Romeo goes about in going against the stars is an peculiar way. “I still will stay with thee;And never from this palace of dim night,Depart again: here, here will I remain with worms that are thy chambermaids; O, here will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh.” As Romeo says this, he is holding a poison that will surely kill him. Trying to defy the stars, Romeo is contemplating his suicide. He thinks Juliet is truly dead so is going to kill himself so they can be together forever in heaven. This way, it will seem as he went against what fate wanted him to do. Turning fate from being written in the stars but in the matters of his hands. But only did he not know it was fated for him to think Juliet was dead and for him kill himself as well because of the letter Friar Lawrence wrote to Romeo explaining it all did not reach him since Friar John became terribly sickened. “ Friar Laurence: Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo? Friar John: I could not send

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