Fate is mentioned again by Romeo in Act one Scene 4, line 107. Romeo says ‘Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,’ this reference to the stars yet again show’s fate is a main part of the play. Romeo also mentions an ‘untimely death’ he says this because Juliet’s death and his own are mapped out. Most of the references to fate in the play are made by Romeo and are mostly mentioning death and love.
In Act 2 Scene 2, line 7, death is mentioned again by Romeo, ‘love-devoured death’. Romeo describes his death as ‘love-devoured’ because he is so in love with Juliet that when he finds her ‘dead’ his love takes over and he dies, for his love.
Act 3 scene 5, line 54 also brings another mention of fate by the love struck Romeo ‘For sweet discourses in our time to come,’ here I think that the main word in this sentence is ‘time’, because this brings fate into the picture once again; ‘time’ emphasises the fact that their life’s have been planned and that they only have a limited life span. Time shall last for eternity, but they shall not.
In Act 5 Romeo learns of the death of his beloved wife, he then states ‘I defy you stars’ to Balthasar, this shows that even though Romeo knows that this death is not a coincidence, just like his meeting his true love Juliet. Due to the untimely death of Juliet, Romeo begins to blame to stars. In act 5 scene 3 on line 111, Romeo states ‘inauspicious stars’, this shows that Romeo finds the stars to be bad and evil.
In act 5 scene 3, on line 153, Friar Lawrence mentions fate by saying that it is ‘a greater power than we can contradict’ this is his way of saying Juliet should except that Romeo has taken his life, and that she should leave him, but Juliet does not except this. When the Friar leaves, Juliet takes her endeared husband, Romeo’s dagger and drives it through her already shattered heart, saying her last words of ‘This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die.’
In conclusion, fate is the true meaning of the play, and it plans everything in all of the characters life’s, mostly Romeo and Juliet’s. Fate has a very despondent ending planned for the life’s of the lovers. ‘Never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.’
