The Fate and The Blindness of Young Love

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The Fate and The Blindness of Young Love Works Cited Missing Fate and love plays a major part in plays as far back as the Greek and Elizabethan days. Shakespeare uses this as a theme in many of this plays. In Romeo and Juliet, the whole play is based upon fate and love. There are various parts in the play where fate is mentioned or played out. The very first time it is mentioned is in the prologue. The prologue tells the audience that something bad is going to happen to the two teenagers before the play has even started. The audience is told that with their course of love, they are doomed. "a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life." Pg1, L: 6. It says that tragic accidents will happen to take away their parents hatred for one another. "Whose misadventures piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife." Pg1. L: 7. Fate sets in when the servant Peter, not being able to read, happens to come across Romeo in the street and asks him to read the guest-list. Romeo would never have known that Rosaline was going and probably would not have gone to the party. He then would never have been able to meet Juliet. Although, Romeo starts to have uneasy feelings about something bad that might happen at the party. "Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars.

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