Romeo And Juliet Fate Essay

Many people believe in another force beyond their own control, those who don’t believe in fatality, say human error is the cause. In the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare causes debate on this subject. Romeo, looking for his dearest Rosaline, sees and immediately falls in love with Juliet Capulet. This is fate at its finest. When Shakespeare writes this play, his true intent we don’t know, but he used fate to address the outcomes of the two lover’s Destiny. In the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses fate to decide Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths. Prior to visiting the Capulet’s Ball, Romeo has a thought that lingers in his mind, “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 despisèd
“O God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails or thou look'st pale.” She spits out after the two “Star-crossed lovers” have their wedding night. Her reply reveals that she sees Romeo in a tomb, this being the place where the two lovers were doomed to die. “And trust me, love, in my eye so do you. Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!” This is Romeo’s immediate reply, he also sees her in that deep God-forsaken pit, coincidence? I think not.
When Romeo and Juliet die next to each other in the Capulet Monastery, this action already having been foreshadowed, shows human error. Then again the actions leading up to this and causing it were in fact fate’s decision. “ I am truly fate’s fool,” as Romeo said after the slaying of Tybalt. This is one of the things that foreshadowed their young death. Human-error had but one thing to cause the death of the two, impulsive acts from the fatal