“A pair of star-crossed
lovers take their life...” From the first paragraph of the play we can see how
through the dialogues their fate is stated. Romeo and Juliet’s love was forbidden
by society, yet was their tragic end just their parents’ fault? Or there was
something else?
From the beginning we see this
constant association with death that is always presented in the whole storyline.
First we see Romeo playing his role as the romantic hero, and sharing with us
his dark thoughts about unrequired love. Moreover, while the story follows its course,
not only he gives a hint of what’s going to happen next, Juliet is the chosen
one to show us which are the results of so much hate. Maybe, those thoughts
that we thought as premonitions of the worst, are no more than a judgment based
on so much hate that she perceived around their love. Juliet says:
“Give me my Romeo. And when I
shall die
Take him and cut him out in
little stars,
And he will make the face of
heaven so fine
That all the world will be
in love with night..”
This shadowy revelation that
Juliet experiments after her cousin’s death, might give us a sense of
monopolizing feelings over her beloved; however, Romeo died after seen her in
her grave as she asked the destiny to do so. Then, Shakespeare through those monologues
gave us the feeling of losing and leads us to the end we already experimented.
Reflections, premonitions, intuitions, signs, foreseeing;
all of them are mechanisms that helps the reader to sense tragedy and their
love as a destiny’s decision towards characters life.
