Fate Quotes Flashcards
A pair of…
star-crossed lovers take their life.
Prologue
Some consequence…
yet hanging in the stars.
Romeo - Act 1 Scene 4
O, I am…
fortunes fool.
Romeo - Act 3 Scene 1
Then I defy…
you stars.
Romeo - Act 5 Scene 1
O swear not by the ___ the inconstant _____
moon
Juliet - Act 2 Scene 2
“Give me my Romeo…
and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine”
Act 3 Scene 2
Fortune be _______
fickle!
Shake the yoke of
inauspicious stars
Act 5 Scene 3
My grave is likely to be…
my wedding bed
Act 1 Scene 5
“Alack, alack, that heavens should practice Stratagems…
upon so soft a subject as myself”
Act 3 Scene 5
“from forth fatal loins…
of these two foes”
prologue
Main ideas about fate:
If you try and escape fate it could end tragically which is seen most through Romeo.
It is an invisible and inescapable force that cannot be altered - Shakespeare is exposing how Elizabethans are fearful of fate and believe it dictates everything despite believing in God.
Fate controls their life from the outset (prologue).
Shakespeare is highlighting how if you believe that fate is responsible for everything and don’t make your own formal decisions life will be a roller coaster.
