Fate In Romeo And Juliet

Anais Nin once said, “You don’t find love, it finds you. Its got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.” This quote relates strongly to Romeo and Juliet because due to the bad fates of their family, they ended up dying for each other. Juliet and Romeo fell in love by accident, something completely out of their control. This makes Shakespeare’s play much more tragic because they weren’t given a choice on how they were to end up, the way Shakespeare made it was either die together or live painfully without one another and dying was the favorable option in this situation. Although this play is heavy focused on fate and destiny, there were many more ways this play would’ve gone, but isn’t that fate in the end? Firstly, the actions of each of their family members
Because Tybalt got over jealous of Romeo for falling in love with Juliet, Mercutio and Tybalt were killed and Romeo was banished, causing Juliet to be forced to marry Paris, so she found alternative plan. That plan was faking her death and Romeo never got news that this wasn’t real, but he assumed and ended up killing himself for her and then she woke up and killed herself for him. All because their family was feuding did they both die, and that was their planned fate. The Nurse was also against the marriage by basically saying, oh well, Romeo is banished, you should marry Paris! A good countyman! This is stated in the book on page 889, the first time Nurse speaks on this page, “Faith, here it is. Romeo is banished; and all the world nothing that he dares ne’er come back to challenge you; or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it best you married with the County. O, he’s a lovely gentleman!