Theme of Fate in R&J by Aziza Sarkis https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi Locate quotes from the play and explain what they reveal about the theme of Fate en-us 2018-10-16 22:03:32 UTC 2018-10-21 04:27:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620087 The inevitability of fate

“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their lives” (Prologue)

This quote confirms that the love was so called “fate”. This idea of “star cross’d” during the Shakespearian era would’ve been well known to mean like it was written in the stars. Romeo and Juliet were bound to meet each other and their journey together was written in the stars, and it was inevitable.

]]> 2018-10-16 22:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620087 'I fear too early, for my mind misgives; Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin' - Act 1 Scene 4 https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620091 This quote is referring to when Romeo is leaving to go the masque ball where he will meet Juliet. The use of stars is again hinting at the theme of fate and he is preficting that the night will end bitterly. Romeo also says 'too early' which is reoccuring as nearly every signifigant event in the play hapens too early e.g. Romeo arriving too early at Juliets grave, Tybalt spotting Romeo to early etc. ]]> 2018-10-16 22:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620091 “a pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620190 Revealed in this quotation, through the use of foreshadowing, Shakespeare eludes to the idea that Romeo and Juliet are star cross’d lovers. The link to being star cross’d heightens the idea that their love is inevitable and bound by fate. There is nothing they can do to avoid it as it is their fate. This quotation emphasises the significance of fate and that it is inevitable in the play and sets the reader up to understand that fate will occur throughout the entire play, which is set up in the prologue.]]> 2018-10-16 22:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620190 “Doth with their death bury their parent’s strife?” https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620208  
This quote reveals the consequences of the death of Romeo and Juliet. It comments of the strife the two families and parents feel after their deaths, and the consequent peace that prevails as a result of the tragedy. This also makes the viewer question whether their death was fate and for the greater good of the community of Verona. 

 

]]> 2018-10-16 22:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620208 "Star-cross'd lovers take their life" https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620221  This quotation is the first mention of the inevitable fate that is present in Romeo and Juliet. By calling the protagonists ‘star cross’d’ it depicts that their love has been written in the stars and is therefore unavoidable. The quotation highlights that Romeo and Juliet will inevitably take their own lives due to their unavoidable love that was written in the stars. ]]> 2018-10-16 22:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620221 "I fear too early, for my mind misgives; Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin" (Act 1 Scene 4) https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620284
This quote reveals a lot about the theme of the inevitability of fate. It is evident through this quote once again this idea of Romeo predicting something is about to happen, and he knows its going to have a negative outcome (bitter). He also knows its going to start tonight yet he still decides to go. It is inevitable that he is going to meet Juliet and hes not going to change that.]]> 2018-10-16 22:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620284 “Ay, mine own fortune is my misery” https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620324 Romeo through this quote foreshadows that he understands his fortune will be miserable, although he has not witnessed his fate and fortune yet]]> 2018-10-16 22:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620324 "Star-cross'd lovers take their life" Chorus https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620343 This quote reveals that both Romeo and Juliet will die, emphasizing the significance of fate and how they have a predetermined destiny in which they cannot escape. The celestial imagery used in 'star-cross'd' show their romantic love is written amongst the stars, also alluding to the prediction of their death. The use of foreshadowing links to the idea that their death 
is inevitable and bound by fate. ]]> 2018-10-16 22:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620343 ‘Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb’ https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620349 This is when Juliet sees Romeo for the last time before he kills himself, when she is on her balcony she looks down to Romeo and imagines seeing him deep in a tomb which foreshadows him going to Juliet's tomb and killing himself later in the play, reinstating their inevitable death and how they are controlled by fate even through their thoughts.]]> 2018-10-16 22:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620349 “By some vile forfeit of untimely death. But He that hath the steerage of my course direct my sail!” https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620397 2018-10-16 22:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620397 "Ay, mine own fortune in my misery." - Act 1, Scene 2 abenson2021 https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620402 This is said by Romeo as he is talking to the Capulet servant. As a joke, he says he can only read his own fortune in his misery. In this, Romeo means that his love (for Rosaline) will be the cause of his death. Little does he know that his love (but not for Rosaline) will truly be the cause of his own demise. ]]> 2018-10-16 22:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620402 ‘These violent delights have violent ends,’ https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620415 Friar Lawrence talking about the marriage. Foreshadowing, emphasised by repetition, links in the inevitability of fate, also brings in the tie between love and violence.


]]> 2018-10-16 22:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620415 'hanging in the stars' https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620422 We revisit the theme of destined fate through this quote, revealing the ideas from the prologue, were the pair were star crossed lovers.]]> 2018-10-16 22:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620422 "some consequence yet hanging in the stars" https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620616 This quote foreshadows their love and their inevitable death (consequence) and how they were destined by fate which is shown through the symbolism of the stars which is a symbol of fate.]]> 2018-10-16 22:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620616 "Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" - Act 1 Scene 1 https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620652 This quote foreshadows the fate of Tybalt and Mercutio as they disturb the peace of Verona in fighting and both payed with their lives from this battle. ]]> 2018-10-16 22:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620652 Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight, It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be. Ere one can say 'It lightens'. https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620692 In this quote Juliet herself admits that the love they share is rushed and "sudden". It foreshadows the nature of their love throughout the play, and how even though she acknowledged the hastiness of their romance, she blindly accepts the fate forced upon her.]]> 2018-10-16 22:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620692 “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620710

This quote conveys fate as it says star crossed lovers, meaning that Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other was ‘written in the stars’, which is another saying that reveals that it is fate. This quote also reveals the plot of the play.  


]]> 2018-10-16 22:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620710 "I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt." - Act 1 Scene 1 abenson2021 https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620728 Benvolio is speaking to Romeo. Romeo dismisses Benvolio's attempts to make him forget about Rosaline, telling him that he can never make him forget love. Benvolio then comes through with this, saying that he will help Romeo to forget love, or he'd die without doing it. This foreshadows the fact that Romeo will not forget love, and that Benvolio will indeed die (after Romeo) without teaching him how to forget the cruel grasp of love.]]> 2018-10-16 22:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620728 -“a pair of star crossed lovers take their life, whose misadventure piteous overthrows.” (prologue)This quote reveals that the characters fate as a result of timing and fortune (for example Romeo reading the invitations and Romeos death seconds before Juliet’s awakening) is the catalyst for their tragic deaths. https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620736 2018-10-16 22:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620736 “O I am fortune’s fool!” (Act 3 Scene 1) asarkis https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620941 The personification of fate gives fate power. Also, often people of power or royals have ‘fools’. Romeo presents himself as fortune’s plaything. Showing Romeo’s open admittance of fate’s superiority. ]]> 2018-10-16 22:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620941 With their deaths bury their parents strife https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620967 This quotation reveals that once again the inevitability of fate will result in a significant change. In this instance it is that the death of the protagonists will result in peace between the two families.]]> 2018-10-16 22:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620967 “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620996
The technique of foreshadowing is used to immediately inform the audience of the fact that Romeo and Juliet are destined to die. This means that throughout the play, the audience questions all the ‘coincidences’ that occur, and therefore also the coincides that occur in their own lives.]]> 2018-10-16 22:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293620996 "Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days." - Act 1, Scene 3 abenson2021 https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621012 The Nurse is saying this to Juliet, in regards to Paris. She is telling her to go and find the man who will make her happy both day and night. While the Nurse is referring to Paris, she doesn't realise that Juliet will indeed find the man to make her happy - but it isn't Paris. This establishes how the fate of characters are shown and foreshadowed by other characters who are unaware of the future to come.]]> 2018-10-16 22:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621012 “By some vile forfeit of untimely death. But He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail!” https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621018 2018-10-16 22:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621018 a pair of star-crossed lovers - prologue https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621133 this quote reveals that the characters cant escape from the inevitability of fate and that all of their actions are determined because of fate]]> 2018-10-16 22:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621133 “I fear, too early, for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin”This quote conveys how Romeo feels this sense of fate and how their love is written in the stars. The way that they feel this comments on the strong presence of fate throughout the story. https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621147 2018-10-16 22:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621147 "i am fortunes fool" https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621180 this quote shows that Romeo was aware of the fate that he had and in this moment, he wish he didn't have it, however he also was aware that this had happened for a reason.]]> 2018-10-16 22:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621180 My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars - Act 1 scene 5 https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621348 2018-10-16 22:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621348 "What if it be a poison which the Friar subtly hath minister'd to have me dead" https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621744 This quote foreshadows Romeo's death which occurs because of taking poison as well as Juliet's, who attempts to take the poison as well, but, after failing, ends up stabbing herself. The general idea of death has a foreboding feel that begins the tragic ending of the play.]]> 2018-10-16 22:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621744 “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives https://padlet.com/asarkis/b8ggtimzseyi/wish/293621988  This quote is the first time fate has been mentioned / explored throughout the play, marking the beginning of this reoccurring motif of the stars and constant upcoming theme and foreshadowing of fate.  It establishes the concept that Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is “written in the stars” and pre planed, alluding to the fact that their actions are ‘fate’ and as they were destined to be together, they were also destined to die.
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