How does Shakespeare make the reader expect that death will be inevitable for Romeo and Juliet?
… Act 1 of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Shakespeare shows tragedy is inevitable in many ways. In the very opening of the play we hear of fate in the prologue. At the beginning of the play the prologue basically sums up the main plot and then it tells us the end a quotation to show this is “The two lovers end their lives”. The chorus tells us that “a pair of star crossed lovers” (Romeo and Juliet) will take their own lives. the “passage of their death marked love” means they will die untimely deaths. This opening section really sums up the fateful echoes in the play and shows the hints that this play will not have a happy ending. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a play in which the plot relies on the intervention of fate. An example is in Romeo’s dream, before the party in Act 1 Scene 5. He says that …
