Star-crossed is defined in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary as ill-fated, non-favored by the stars, and opposed by destiny and fate; so was the story of Romeo and Juliet really about a couple of star-crossed lovers who were destined never to be together or live in happiness, or was it their own actions that caused their so-called inevitable deaths? In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it was the decisions of the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, which brought about their demise. Acts that are mistaken as fate, acts of selfishness and anger that are blamed on destiny and fate, and what critics and the public believe are all subjects that will be addressed in proving that it was actions and not fate that was to blame in this Shakespearean tragedy.
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Every reader of Romeo and Juliet has to take into account the large possibility of destiny or fate in the big picture of it all during this story because it is a variable which many believe in, while taking in to account that it was actions, not a magical force, which made everyone do what they did. The first bit of actions mistaken for fate that occurred was when Romeo first met Juliet. Readers should really think about it, first the serving man is given the list of invitees and is told to seek them out when Capulet says "Go, sirrah, trudge about through fair Verona, find those .
persons out" (I, ii, 35-36); as he is given the list he was physically given these tasks. Ironically the serving man is unable to read which is revealed as he says "It is written I must to the learned. In good time" (I, ii, 45-46) and is given the task of which he must ask for help, and who might he stumble across none other than the love sickened Romeo and his courteous companion, Benvolio.
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