William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are victims of bad luck and fate. ... The play is set in the city of Verona and involves two main characters, Romeo, or the Montagues, and Juliet, of the Capulets. ... He sends off the guest list with a servant that could not read, so as he walked along he asks Romeo to help read the list for him. ... Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, recognizes Romeo's voice and is ready to fight. ... Juliet, too, falls for Romeo, but falls into despair when her Nurse informs her Romeo is a Montague, as does Romeo when he learns Juliet is a Capulet. ...

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He gives a great deal of input to the main characters. I have produced a list of quotes some of which we have already recited. ... He marries Romeo and Juliet even though he knew that it would probably end in disaster. ... The reason for this is that they are both involved with the marriage of Romeo and Juliet. As the nurse has her concerns for Juliet as he has his for Romeo. ...

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All of the events surround characters from both the Montague and Capulet families. ... Shakespeare made her character a mere thirteen years old, but she acts mature beyond her years. ... Romeo and Juliet is very much the story of a girl becoming a woman. ... We would feel sympathy for any character in this type of predicament. ... In Romeo and Juliet, fate is the biggest force opposing Romeo and Juliet. ...

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Romeo reads a guest list for the Capulet ball. ... Chance not only causes certain characters to meet, it also sways some of the characters to react beyond their control. ... Romeo enters Juliet's tomb and discovers Paris mourning over Juliet. ... Whether you believe in chance or you think you control your own destiny, the plot of Romeo and Juliet is heavily influenced by chance, as opposed to the actions of the characters. ... Chance has such a substantial role in Romeo and Juliet that it not only affects nearly all of the characters, it changes the overall outcome of the story because if...

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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy of character in which the lovers are punished for their reckless passion. ... Romeo and Benvolio, still discussing Rosaline, encounter the Capulet servant bearing the list of invitations. ... Romeo agrees to go with Benvolio to the feast, but only because Rosaline, whose name he reads on the list, will be there. ... Another famous balcony quote is when Juliet proclaimed, "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? ... Juliet's father, old Capulet, forbade Juliet to have any sort of relations with Romeo. ...

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"To What exten is the Friar responsible for Romeo and Juliet's deaths?" The Friar's actions and involvement did contribute to Romeo and Juliet's deaths. ... Alongside the influence of these characters, the role of Fate and Fortune contributes immensely in the play. ... Romeo is asked to read the guest list of the Capulet's party and as fortune may have it is at this party where he meets Juliet. ... Romeo and Juliet are both very young, Juliet not yet fourteen. ...

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Perhaps the best use of fate in a literary work is in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. ... A large part of the beliefs for both Romeo and Juliet involve fate. ... While Romeo babbled on about his life with Benvolio, his cousin and kinsmen, Romeo bumped into this servant who asked him to read the list, with Rosaline's name, which got Romeo to agree to go after the servant invited them. ... Romeo and Juliet throughout the play have dreams or visions of their deaths. ... The role of fate in "The Interlopers" is substantial to the future of the characters Ulrich and Georg. ...

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Yet character influences feature just as much. ... Romeo and Juliet would have died whatever happened - Inevitable. Not forgetting the fact that certain characters play significant parts in the consequences of events. ... Romeo ends up at the party by chance, one of Capulet's Servants can't read the Guest list, and by "chance" (Again, Fate?) ... Had the Servant been able to read the list, or even bumped into someone else, Romeo may not have heard about or even gone to the party. ...

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Fate's Role in Romeo and Juliet From the very beginning of his timeless love story Shakespeare proclaims Romeo and Juliet are "star-crossed lovers." ... The audience is also made aware that the characters themselves believe in fate. ... Romeo does, and he reads the guest list for the illiterate servant. ... Romeo agrees to attend, for he sees Rosaline, the girl he is in love with's, name on the list, and sees it as a chance to further court her. ... As a result, Romeo is banished and Romeo and Juliet's marriage begins to unwind. ...

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Fate is predestined events that had already been decided for the characters. ... Choice is free will, what the characters decide to do regardless of what may or may not be the right thing to do. ... One example is when the servant of Capulet asks Romeo to read the invitation list for him. ... Another example is when Romeo met with Juliet. ... Romeo's impulsive nature is one of the causes that ultimately led to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. ...

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A pair of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. ... How did Romeo and Juliet meet? ... After Romeo had read the guest list to the Capulet party and the servant was on his way, Benvolio suggested that Romeo should go to the party and compare Rosaline to the other female guests. ... If Rosaline had not been on the guest list attending the party, Benvolio would not have thought anything of having Romeo attend the party. ... Then why did the friar behave out of character and leave the tomb when he heard the call of the watch. ...

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In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it was the decisions of the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, which brought about their demise. ... The first bit of actions mistaken for fate that occurred was when Romeo first met Juliet. ... Another act which is often mistaken as fate is when Romeo goes to the party and first meets Juliet. ... This means that Romeo sees nothing other than Juliet, which makes him infatuated with her allowing him doubt into his own actions. ... It was not destined that Romeo would kill Tybalt because he made the decision himself, and it was not destined that Ro...

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When they assist him in reading they discover: QUOTE OF LISTS OF CAPULET"S PARTY Here, the servant has asked for Romeo and Benvolio to aid him in reading the list that Old Capulet has created for his party. ... Then, we see that entrances and exits, on and offstage, can be just as important as the characters themselves. ... The audience knows that Mercutio and Tybalt are only "play" fighting, as do the character on stage but because Romeo was late for the start of the "fight" he was not informed of this, until Mercutio passes away. ... It is also know that when a character utters "something"...

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Romeo then thinks Juliet is dead and in a flourish of anger rushes to Verona to see his beloved Juliet. ... For example, when a Capulet servant asks for a list of invited people for a party to be read out, Romeo reads it out, but decides to go to the party himself; knowing Capulet is his enemy. ... Romeo's character is an interesting one. ... There are characters in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet who influence Romeos behaviour directly, Mercutio for example. ... I believe this is to represent the immaturity and child-like nature of Romeo's character. ...

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Capulet dispatches a servant with a list of people to invite to a masquerade and feast he traditionally holds. ... Romeo and Benvolio, still discussing Rosaline, encounter the Capulet servant bearing the list of invitations. ... Romeo agrees to go with Benvolio to the feast, but only because Rosaline, whose name he reads on the list, will be there. ... Analysis of Major Characters Romeo The name Romeo, in popular culture, has become nearly synonymous with "lover."" ... The power of Romeo's love, however, often obscures a clear vision of Romeo's character, which is far more complex...

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"Some of these include King John, The Taming of The Shrew, and Romeo and Juliet. ... In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare mixes the humor of Mercutio and Juliet's nurse into a serious tragedy" (Hazlitt). ... Shakespeare, however, could make the characters in his plays so believable and human, that the plots seemed perfectly reasonable. ... This character won the crowd over quickly and it was an instant success. ... In fact, one of the first things he did as the new ruler of England was make a list of the best actors in England and form an acting company. ...

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From Romeo and Juliet's love, to Hamlet's bitter anger and hate, Shakespeare and proven to be one of the greatest story writers of his time, and many times using his ability to play with emotions. ... The character, Iago, is quoted here claiming his hatred for Othello because he suspects that he had been sleeping with his wife, in the first act. ... However, jealousy also unveiled the type of person a specific character was, when the audience believed they had the character all figured out. ... Jealousy brought conflict upon even minor characters such as Roderigo. ... • 2 emb...

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And they have often been accused of distorting or altering facts and characters-(Schlitt). ... "Primarily, it is a fictional love story; Romeo and Juliet on the sea. ... Titanic has been criticized because Winslet's character would never have been so educated in modern art, so interested in spitting. ... We can find rich and poor characters with whom we genuinely sympathize, as well as those whom we despise. ... "But any cerebral problems this movie might pose are literally drowned with Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jack-(Susan King). ...

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Among titles such as Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, it is apparent why this book has a little more of a home on the list than other titles. ... Stories are born from characters and settings woven together to form their own worlds and no matter how many similarities such a world bears to reality, it is still a world of its own. ... They may bend that perspective and world to make it coincide with their story and characters. ... All this being true, then no book belongs on the banned book list, least of all Lolita. ...

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Othello is a fundamentally different character to all others in the play [1]. ... Sometimes a list of very short phrases can be useful. 5. ... Quite understandably the candidate has concentrated on the characters, but there needed to be some precise statements about Venice itself. ... He uses Roderigo, Brabantio, and just about every other character in the play to attain his goal of ruining Othello. ... You have to think about the relationships that existed betweeen all the characters. ...

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In fact, after a first reading of the short story, we have noticed a list of symbols that made us wonder about their implied meaning. ... In brief, both chapters deal with symbols found in characters, settings, objects and some proper nouns. ... While reading 'Rappaccini's Daughter' one notices many symbols through characters, objects and settings. ... Through this character, the author shows the evil of the exaggerated use of science as a warning not to go beyond Nature's limits. ... The evil nature of this character is stressed by his association with the black colour ...

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