Fate

• Fate permeates the lives of each character in the play. Shakespeare uses fate to explore the two paradoxical beliefs that the course of our life was pre- determined by celestial bodies or the fact it was the Elizabethan society using the human construct as a scapegoat to uphold traditions and expected behaviours.
• Fate is used as a vessel t show love is always bound to fail - sonnet shows immediate dramatic irony foreshadowing when love is created in conflict it causes destruction
• Star crossed lovers
• Death marked love
• Fate causes ignorance in Elizabethan society's faith possibly dangerous when placed over reason and logic
• Direct my sail
• Pilgrims, prayer, saint, faith
• Violence is fated and cannot be overcome
• These violent delights have violent ends
• Misusing fate culminates in destruction foreshadowing the tragic ending - feud is an allegory for post reformation violence
• O calm dishonourable, vile submission
• A plague on both your houses
• Fire eyed fury be my conduct now
• O I am fortunes fool
• Fated to love and die for the greater good - their deaths are a catalyst for change in Verona
• Undertake a thing like death
• I defy you stars
• Wisely and slowly they stumble yet run fast