The Feeling of Inevibility in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

The Feeling of Inevibility in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare is known as one of the greatest playwrights known to man.

The exact date of his birth is unknown but we know he was christened

on Wednesday the 26th of April 1564 which in his era, was a few days

after birth. In London he joined a theatre company and became an

actor. His career as a writer began with him writing parts of the play

he was acting in. As he became better at writing his work became more

widely known. In London he became part of the Chamberlains company of

player from 1594. This is when he had began to write the plays Romeo

and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Richard II. As years went

by, more and more plays were written. When he died on the 16th of

April 1616 he had written over 50 plays, sonnets and poems.

The play Romeo and Juliet is classed as a tragedy, however some have

thought it more closely resembles Shakespeare’s comedies than other

tragedies. In general, the genre tragedy is an effort to exemplify the

sense that human beings are inevitably doomed, through their own

failures or errors or through the ironic action of their morality.

What is more, it could be through the nature of fate or destiny or the

human condition to suffer, fail or even face death. The measure of a

character’s life is to be taken by how he or she faces the inevitable

future. In dramas, the genre tragedy recounts a casually related

period of events in the life of a person or persons, climaxing in an

unhappy catastrophe.

Romeo and Juliet is about two teenage children from warring families

who fall in love. Convinced that their families will never allow...

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inevitability was that of the chorus and the Prince. The chorus set

the scene of Romeo and Juliet and present to the audience the themes

the play contains as well as the predestined course Romeo and Juliet

are bound to. They also pass on knowledge of Romeo’s change in

admiration of two women, Rosaline to Juliet. The Prince is used as a

dramatic device to move the plot along. He can be seen as paradoxical,

as he contradicts he warning of death at the beginning of the play to

banishing Romeo when he murders Tybalt. This acts as a catalyst which

speeds up the plot to drive it to its predetermined dooming end. So in

brief, by use of the prologue, the themes of fate and fortune, the

theme of time, and the use of the chorus and the Prince, Shakespeare

was able to create a sense of inevitability in Romeo and Juliet.