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The play has a number of incidents when it is suggested that fate plays a part. In every act there is an event when you can detect fate and the “Wheel of Fortune” turning. The first incident is how Romeo and Juliet meet. They meet at the Capulet party and Romeo shouldn’t even be there as he is a “foe” as he is a “Montague.” As soon as Romeo sets eyes on Juliet he feels her “beauty” is “too rich for use” and is instantly in love. So right from the beginning fate plays a part as it brings the “star crossed lovers” together. Fate also plays a part as Romeos and Juliet's “love” has “sprung” from their “only hate.” This is only one of the incidents where fate is detected. Fate acts when the fight between Mercutio, Tybalt and Romeo occurs and both Mercutio and Tybalt end up dead and Romeo is “banished.”  Tybalt “slew Mercutio” so “Romeo slew him.” If fate had not let Mercutio die then Romeo would not have killed Tybalt and become “banished.” Fate could have been crueler as “Juliet is alive” and “death” became “thy friend.” Towards the end of the play fate plays another major part, especially when the letter that Friar Lawrence wrote explaining what the potion that Juliet took would do never actually got to Romeo. This meant that when Balthazar told Romeo that he had seen Juliet “laid low in kindred’s vault” Romeo thought that Juliet was actually dead. There are other parts in the play where it is obvious that fate plays a part. I think that fate plays so much part in this play because it happens over just five days so Romeo and Juliet act so quickly.  

Other characters also influence fate. Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s nurse are the main characters that do this. Friar Lawrence marries the two lovers because he feels that if this “alliance” may “so happy prove” to turn the two households’ “rancour to pure love.” He is also a major part in their deaths. He arrives too late to save Romeo but tries to save Juliet. He cannot get her to depart her “tomb” so eventually runs away and leaves Juliet to be the “bride of death.” Juliets nurse supports Juliet's decision for her to marry Romeo and she even tells Juliet that at Friar Lawrence’s  cell there “stays a husband” to make her a “wife.” This is because her nurse loves Juliet and wants to see her happy but when the Capulets want Juliet to marry Paris she agrees with them and tells her that it is “best” that she marries “with the County.” If the nurse had given Juliet support then the events may have turned out differently.

Though the play of Romeo and Juliet seems sad and depressing most of the way through most people see the ending as the most heartrending part but this is one part of the play where fate helps the young lovers.  Fate re-unites their families and they finally begin to figure out their “ancient grudge” which is what Capulet’s and Montague’s children would have wanted. Romeo and Juliet are also together and can no longer be separated from one another despite the fact that they are dead. Even though the play does not end totally tragically there is never a story of “more woe” than “Juliet and her Romeo.”