Romeo is not the only person that feels that fate is involved. Juliet also says “can heaven be so envious?” Here Juliet is told that Tybalt is dead, as a consequence of a fight with Romeo. The quote shows that she thinks that the heavens are doing everything in their power to stop them being together. Also when Romeo has to leave after their night together Juliet’s says “O fortune, fortune” This is almost the same as Romeo said when he killed Tybalt, they must have had the same feeling in that fate is involved.
The Price also seems to feel that Fate in involved. When he says “heaven has killed your joy with love” in Act 5 scene 3 193. Here the Prince is saying that “Heaven” has killed Romeo and Juliet, but for a purpose.
Friar Lawrence as sees that Fate is involved when in Act 5 Scene 2 17 he says “Unhappy fortune” Here it seems that Friar Lawrence does not want to take the blame so he maybe makes himself believe that it was fortune and that it was meant to be.
Also when Romeo is about to drink the poison he makes one last statement about how fate has brought him to this, “Shake the yoke of inauspicious stars” saying he has had enough of his ill fated life, and just does what he feels is meant to happen.
Chance also plays a big part in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. I believe that is was chance that The Capulet servant could not read the invitation, and that that one of the Montague’s were near by to help out, and find out about the party. If it was not for this coincidence then maybe Romeo and Juliet would of never had met.
It is also chance the Friar Arrives just too late to stop Romeo killing him self. He had arrived just a few minutes earlier then Romeo and Juliet may have lived on. It is obvious that The Friar knows this as he feels a tremendous guilt for what had happened.
It was also chance that Romeo saw Juliet before he saw Rosaline, as he may have paid all attention to Rosaline and never have seen Juliet.
There are also many other reason for why Romeo and Juliet may have died. Like the feud of the two houses. The feud is what drives Romeo and Juliet apart. Romeo is banished because of the feud, as he killed Tybalt because of the feud. And if Romeo was not banished then there would be no need for |Juliet to take the sleeping potion and none of the confusion of her death would have happened. The marriage has to be taken place in secret which may have put a lot of strain on the younger couple as well. From this we can see that if one thing had not happened then a chain of thing after that may not have happened either, which shows us how one action can change a lot of things and can have many consequences which at the time are not that obvious.
Also the inability of the adults to empathise, and see the view from the younger people’s eyes is also a big problem, which still happens to day. Paris does not understand that Juliet may not want to marry him, even if she was not married to Romeo it is a big step for some one so young to take if she is not sure of what to do. If her Parents could communicate better with her then maybe they could have reached an agree meant, but neither side wants to compromise they just want their own way.
There are many causes for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.. it’s Youth versus age, Love versus hate life versus death. I believe that Fate and Chance were the main reasons for Romeo and Juliet’s death but the main reason was not to kill Romeo and Juliet but to bring the houses together and in turn bring peace in Verona. Although I do not believe that this could happen in real life, for example the conflict between the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland is sort of like the feud between the Capulets and Montagues. I do not believe that the conflict would stop if a catholic and protestant fell in love and died because of the feud. If anything I believe that a riot would begin and that each side would blame the other one for the death of their loved one. But then things may have been different in the old days in Verona.
