Fate in Romeo and Juliet Dar Fathi Fate is defined as an event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future. ... A final part of the play suggesting that Romeo and Juliet were destined by fate occurs at the end of the play, when the Prince discovers Romeo and Juliet dead and Friar Laurence reveals their hidden love. ... The peace may have been the final part of a grand scheme which seems so perfectly plotted, bringing together two lovers and two families full of hatred, which the Friar predicted the marriage might do. ...

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Everlasting Love True love is defined as a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair, the emotion of sex and romance. ... Friar Lawrence agrees to marry them to end the feuding between the families. ... Juliet tells Friar Lawrence that her love for Romeo is so strong that she would rather kill herself than have to marry Paris and betray Romeo and their marriage together. Juliet does not want to marry this Paris so she arranges with Friar Lawrence to fake her own death with a sleeping potion that will make everyone think that she is dea...

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Webster's dictionary defines fate as "the power that is supposed to settle ahead of time how things will happen". ... In Act V, scene iii, The Prince says, "A glooming peace this morning with it brings..." after the two are discovered dead and their marriage revealed by the Friar. ... In Act II, scene iii, the Friar predicted that this marriage might fix the families feud, "For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancor to pure love." ... During this part of the play, after Romeo has killed Paris and himself but before Juliet has done the same, the Friar comes r...

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When you first consider Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the first thing to come to mind is, more often than not, the theme of love. This may well be the most commonly recognised aspect of the play, but it is far from being the most understood, or even explored, by the reader. However, with further consideration, it becomes more clear just how wide and complex the theme of love is in the play. People may well think of Romeo and Juliet to be "the greatest love story ever told", due to their rather vague knowledge of the passion shared by the two main lovers. However, this is perhaps quite...

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