Story of Romeo and Juliet Is Fate Not Bad Luck

Well it was fate, as the prologue predicts the ending before hand "star-crossed lovers" meaning they were born under the wrong stars, this is astrology which with microcosm and macrocosm was popular in the 16th century. Astrology states that the stars are an essential part of our lives and play a part in the sequence of events. Macrocosm and microcosm are based on the fact that what happens in nature has consequences in the lives of human. At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, the Nurse remembers an earthquake that happened earlier (should be in the first act). That earthquake leads to disastrous events in the characters' lives. Also you shouldn't forget the fact that in a tragedy the presence of fate is necessary, of something much higher controlling the game that is life. So in this case it's got to be fate, not to mention the fact that what you call "bad luck" today was actually considered to be fate back then. I'll give you a couple examples of why it's fate: the most obvious one is that Romeo did not get Friar Laurence's letter in time du to an epidemy of the plague. Tybalt and Mercutio's death also have a significance since their death drives to the that of Romeo and Juliet, if Tybalt had never died Romeo wouldn't have been banishment. Yet this was necessary so that the families could finally reconcile the long feud going on between them. You could also mention the fact that after act 3, there is a purification process (catharsis begins here, passions are purified) with the death of 6 people and you could make a reference to the death of Christ which was necessary to bring peace and order into the world and elevate fait in the masses. Just like that Romeo and Juliet's death was untimely but necessary to bring tranquility into the city of Verona, blood had to be spilled to end a feud. In the end it works and the lover's fight metamorphoses into a statue in gold (representing the sun, acceptance from society). These are the elements I remember, there might be