Messages in romeo and juliet

[Sean]

In the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, messages play an important role in the plot. Continuously messages that do not make it on time, or are misunderstood, change the entire plot of the play. Fate also plays a part in changing the plot. First, Capulet gives the list of guests to an illiterate servant. Next, the letter from the Friar to Romeo did not make it on time, causing a fatality. Fate caused Romeo to be invited to Capulet’s party and meet Juliet. Messages not getting delivered correctly, combined with fate, decide where the plot goes in this tragic play.

Capulet gave the invitations for his party to an illiterate servant of his. The servant asks Romeo, a Montague, for help reading the letter. “Perhaps you have learned it without/book but I pray, can you read anything you see?” (I, ii, 64-65) The servant does not have ht ability to read, and asked a Montague to read it for him. Romeo invited the other Montague’s to the party; Romeo meets Juliet here. This is not the only example of a botched message that changed the plot of the play.

Next, a message from the Friar to Romeo that was not delivered changed the course of the play. Romeo thinks that Juliet died when he goes to her tomb. “And death’s pale flag” (V, ii, 109.) Romeo never got the message from the Friar that Juliet took a potion to make her appear dead so she could escape with Romeo and live with him outside Verona. Romeo sees her body and kills himself, wanting to be with her. When she wakes up and saw his body, she kills herself too. Messages, or lack of, change the plot many times during this tragedy.

These unforeseen flaws in messages were caused by fate. Fate causes Romeo and Juliet to meet and fall deeply in love. “To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”
(I, v, 107) At the party, when Romeo and Juliet meet, they fall instantly in love. If the invitation had just gone to the Capulet family like it was supposed to, Romeo never would have met her, and they would not be together. In this play, fate plays a very important role, making everything fit together.

Messages being either confused or lost play a large part in this tragedy. First, the invitation to the party was given to an illiterate servant. Then, a message did not reach Romeo in time so he killed himself over Juliet. Fate is what caused Romeo and Juliet to meet in the first place. The plot of Romeo and Juliet depends greatly on messages and fate.

[dann_i-y]

Fate it seems is deemed to be inevitable. Not in my eyes.
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