Romeo And Juliet Fate Quotes

In the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespear two kids from opposing families, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love with each other. Juliet’s father was trying to marry her off to a different man, Paris, but she was already married to Romeo by the time her and Paris’s marriage was scheduled. After 5 days of knowing one another they kill themselves for their partner because their families would not let them be together. Juliet, Romeo, and a multitude of other characters are at fault for everything that happened to cause their demise in the play and not fate as opposed to how they would like to believe.
People like to blame everything but themselves for things going wrong. Be it fate, luck, or something else entirely, it will be blamed before their own actions. “This day’s black fate on more days doth depend. This but begins the woe others must end.” (3.1.81-82). Within this quote it is seen that Romeo is blaming fate for what will happen in the future. Mercutio, one of Romeo’s closest friends has just died and is accusing the aftermath to be that of fate’s control instead of the actions of Tybalt, the actual murderer.

Stars are just balls of gas in the sky and have no control over someone's actions and end. To say it is in charge of that is to ignore science, a fundamental concept. “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” (1.Prologue.6). As early as the prologue we can see the stars being referenced to in the fate of Romeo and Juliet. Copious amounts of people adore the idea of fate being in the stars. That fate is as set in stone just as how the constellations and other stars will always be in the night sky. Stars will die out eventually and be empty