Some people may not believe that fate is something that truthfully exists in the world. Others, however, believe that every event is predestined and laid out before them like a roadmap to life; in other words, fate. William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet portrays fate as an exceptionally cruc...

In V.iii.159, Friar Laurence said, “A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our plan.” This quote sums up the reason for basically every bad event that occurred in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet . Fate and chance are the two major elements that brought Romeo and Juliet toge...