The chorus describes Romeo and Juliet "star crossed lovers" to what extent do you agree with this view of the play

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The chorus describes Romeo and Juliet "star crossed lovers" to what extent do you agree with this view of the play?

This essay is about the two "star crossed lovers" as the chorus describes them. Romeo and Juliet are the so-called "death marked lovers" because they fell in love when their families were sworn enemies. That was not the only reason their lives were ended though, these are the other reasons they were "doomed"

The feud between their families, and were not willing to get on with each other, The actions of the young lovers them selves because they were acting rashly, Lord Capulet because he acted quite rashly as well when he said that Juliet had to marry Paris the next day, or he was going to throw her out, Friar Lawrence, because he helped Juliet fake her death and because he married Romeo and Juliet in the first place.

I am going to investigate these reasons further.

Romeo and Juliet fell in love at the Capulets party. Tybalt wanted to kill Mercutio and Romeo for gate crashing their party. Tybalt killed Mercutio, Romeo killed Tybalt. Romeo was banished. Juliet had to marry Paris but did not want too because of her real husband Romeo. Juliet got a potion from Friar Lawrence and she slept though the day of her wedding 'faking' her death. Romeo did not get the letter, he then killed himself. Juliet killed herself too.

Fate played a dramatic part in Romeo and Juliet lives and deaths. Romeo and Juliet were said to be "...A pair of star- crossed lovers..." their love was doomed from the beginning. The chorus said that,

".... The fearful passage of death marked love..." The chorus meant that their love would end up with Romeo and Juliet dying.

In Act 1 Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, and the rest of their company are going to the Capulets feast; they were gate crashing the Capulets party. Romeo thinks that it was all a bad idea about going to the party he said

"...My mind misgives

Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,

Shall bitterly begin his fearful date

With this nights revels..." so he said that it could be a bad idea, meaning this might be the start of bad luck, yet he still goes to the Capulet party. At the party, Tybalt saw Romeo, Mercutio and the rest of their company, and Tybalt wanted to get revenge on them going to the Capulets feast. The next day Tybalt went looking for Romeo but finds Mercutio and ends up murdering him. Romeo then wanted to kill Tybalt for killing his cousin, Romeo succeeded in
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killing Tybalt, so at this point fate has intervened with Romeo killing Tybalt, as Tybalt is Juliet's cousin. Romeo was now feeling quite bad about killing his new wife's cousin, and for this he said;

"O, I am fortunes fool!" meaning oh lord what have I just done? Romeo did not want his new wife, Juliet, to hate him because of this disaster that fate has caused.

Romeo was then banished from Verona, Romeo says in Act 5.

"...I dreamt my lady came and found me dead..." Romeo is in Mantua and ...

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