Romeo and Juliet
Date Submitted: 04/02/2004 05:39:02
Romeo & Juliet
Star-crossing
or
Coincidence in Romeo and Juliet
By: Richard Hawley
Per.3
Friday, May 23
"A pair of star-crossed lovers", Romeo and Juliet. From the opening scenes of the play these two children of feuding families were destined to fall in love together and eventually die together. How does the reader see this? How do we know it was fate which triggered these events? Coincidence caused the death of these two lovers. For this reason …
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…in death. Romeo did not receive the message from the Friar in Act V, Scene I, because of coincidence. If he had received the message, the Friar's scheme would have gone as planned. Coincidence is exceedingly evident when Romeo enters the tomb to die with Juliet as proven earlier. As the coincidences in the novel build up, the reader's idea of reality changes, and enables Shakespeare create one of his greatest
tragedies, Romeo and Juliet.
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