Fate/Timing In Romeo And Juliet Flashcards
Fate or timing in Act 1 Scene 5?
Capulet party- Romeo gets bad feeling/dream
“My mind missives some consequence, yet hanging in the stars […] Closed in my breast by the same vile forfeit of untimely death”
How does Juliet feel fate is against her love?
As Romeo lowers from her bedroom window, she imagines him in a coffin
O God, I have an ill-diving soul!
Methinks, I see thee, now thou art so low,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb”
How does Romeo sense fate during Act 3 Scene 1?
Romeo kills Tybalt and expects that now his love to Juliet is ill-fated
“O! I am fortune’s fool!”
Fate time in the Prologue?
Sense of fate as the viewer knows what’s going to happen
“A pair of star crossed lovers take their life”
When Romeo is in mantua he has a coincidental dream:
“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead,”
When Romeo hears of Juliet’s apparent death, he curses his fate:
“Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!”
Friar Lawrence believes his carefully laid plans have been destroyed by Fate:
“A greater power than we can contradict,/
Hath thwarted our intents,”
