Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

The enmity of the youths' families guarantees that their love will confront a surplus of obstacles. Shakespeare, through the Chorus, immediately makes clear that destiny is to blame: "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes [i.e., the Capulets and Montagues]/ A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;/ Whose misadventured piteous overthrows/ Doth with their death bury their parents' strife" (Prologue, lines 5-8). The stars, or destiny, are in control of the futures of Romeo and Juliet and there is nothing that anybody can do to avert the tragedy. This inevitability is guaranteed by the fact that the people around the youths--their rage-blinded families--who might be expected to provide them with helpful counsel, are, to the contrary, just as ruled by the destiny of vengeance. Instead of helping Romeo and Juliet, the families provide nothing but hopelessness, further isolating the two in their young p

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