Destiny, Fate, Free Will and Free Choice in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet :: Shakespeare, Romeo Juliet

Do you believe in fate? To answer the question, you must(prenominal) first have a correct idea of what fate is. A definition of fate would be the power that is supposed to settle ahead of period how things will happen. Could there be such a power that rules our lives, and if so, why? Romeo and Juliet, the two young lovers in William Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet, ended up becoming a large part of what could be called fate. Fate seemed to take their lives and force them together, becoming a large part of their love, and the ending of their parents hatred. Fate became the ultimate control power in this play, and plays a large part in modern everyday life, even if we dont recognize it. Maybe we dont recognize it because we choose not to, or dont have faith like we used to, but the fact remains that fate controls what we do throughout all of our lives.   A large part of the beliefs for some(prenominal) Romeo and Juliet involve fate. They believed in the stars, and that their a ctions werent always their own. Romeo, for example, 1.4.115-120, he says, Some consequence yet hanging in the stars...by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage over my course Direct my sail. Hes basically saying to his friends that he had a dream which leads him to believe that he will die young because of something in the stars, something that will happen. He ends with ...he that hath steerage over my course... which implies that he does not have control over his life if he looks to another power above himself to direct him. He does not feel that he is the one who makes decisions, it is all a higher purpose, a different power. Were all sort of like the puppets below the puppeteer. Hes petition for that puppeteer to direct his sail, or his life, in the right direction.   Fate directs us all like the puppets on the end of its string, and I believe strongly in it. It is, in many ways, the mystical power that controls who and what we become, and it exp lains that which can not be explained. Romeo was looking to this power, asking of this power to direct him, not to an untimely death as he foresaw in his dream, but to just steer him, because that is the control which he knows he does not have over himself.