What Is The Role Of Fate In Romeo And Juliet Essay
Fate is a word our society tends to deem worthy of being the scapegoat to all of our annoyances, although it is only applicable to the negative situations we get ourselves into. What we fail to understand is that there cannot be a positive without the burdens of a negative, and fate takes the blame for both. The romantic tragedy of shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet expresses the ideal of senseless outcomes of impulsive decisions committed by the two blind lovers: Romeo and Juliet. We travel through our lives unconscious of the factors that influence us; an immense component of these oblivious decisions arrive in the people we interact with. Fate brings these people into our lives to impel both the positive and negative decisions we are bound to make People
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The powerful rejection inflicted so much agony on the already impassioned Romeo that he is forced out of his own persona. His sorrow is so vivid that he describes himself as someone else, expressing, “This is not Romeo. He's some other where,” (line 206, Act I scene i). This spirals into a perpetual state of remorse where he refuses the invitation to a party hosted by the Capulets, a rival family of the Montagues. Although, through convincing from his close friend Benvolio, he ultimately agrees, little does he know that the outcome he has created would lead to him finding the love of his life; Juliet Capulet. Shakespeare demonstrates the immediate reaction of love at first sight when Juliet and him lock eyes for the first time. The overwhelming abundance of emotions leads Romeo to completely disregard his brief love of Rosaline by professing, “For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (60). To oppose the main theme of fate in the play, the feuding families, my parents quickly became friends with another couple which they met in college, they had a daughter as well, born just six months after me. What brought us together relied less on fate and more on enthusiastic parents, however as the
The powerful rejection inflicted so much agony on the already impassioned Romeo that he is forced out of his own persona. His sorrow is so vivid that he describes himself as someone else, expressing, “This is not Romeo. He's some other where,” (line 206, Act I scene i). This spirals into a perpetual state of remorse where he refuses the invitation to a party hosted by the Capulets, a rival family of the Montagues. Although, through convincing from his close friend Benvolio, he ultimately agrees, little does he know that the outcome he has created would lead to him finding the love of his life; Juliet Capulet. Shakespeare demonstrates the immediate reaction of love at first sight when Juliet and him lock eyes for the first time. The overwhelming abundance of emotions leads Romeo to completely disregard his brief love of Rosaline by professing, “For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (60). To oppose the main theme of fate in the play, the feuding families, my parents quickly became friends with another couple which they met in college, they had a daughter as well, born just six months after me. What brought us together relied less on fate and more on enthusiastic parents, however as the