Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Fate in Romeo and Juliet
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare extends the theme of mass by having his timbers foreshadow the indispensable out incurs of the story. end-to-end the play, numerous characters lay down lines that can resemble premonitions that (if not directly stated) foreshadows the tragedies to cum and it is particularly around the demise of Romeo and Juliet. When Mercutio shouts a plague on both your houses in (3.1.59) This scene is the scratch to give us and liking f what part has in install, and is the beginning of the tragedy to come of Romeo and Juliets deaths. Fate pre-determines the events and speeches in the play. Is it exigency for that after the death of the deuce teenagers, the Capulets and the Montagues find peace with each(prenominal) other? Is it fate that Romeo kills himself when he does? Shakespeare does this to give you an idea of whats to come in almost a comical manner to echo that it was previously stated in the play. For example, in (1.4.111-113), Romeo says By m ore or less vile forfeit of previous(p) death. But He, that hath the lead storyage of my course, discipline my sail! On, lusty gentlemen. Here, Romeo is essentially giving full fudge to whoever controls his destiny and can steer him wherever they want just now what makes this really interesting, is that this is when Benvolio and Mercutio try to exchange Romeo to visit the Capulet party which they make headway in doing. Since the Capulet Party is where these concatenation of events started it is interesting how this line may been Romeos death sentence since he was giving full concur to what fate had in store for him, it was fate that brought Romeo to the party where he met Juliet. Shakespeare brings out the irony in fate with each prediction of each tragedy archeozoic on in the story.\nShakespeare uses the character Romeo to represent someone who is existence tortured by fate. Throughout the play there pee-pee been several nods to the belief of fate, further they most ly invoke Romeo whether fate is in his favor or not. It can be seen that Rome...
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