ROMEO AND JULIET (1595), how important is Fate to the play?
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... GSCE English GCSE English Literature Item 2:Shakespeare Paper 2007 ROMEO AND JULIET (1595) Title: How Important is Fate to The Play? When I first read the prologue to Romeo and Juliet I could tell straight away that this story was going to be a love story. I recognized this by the fact that the prologue was a sonnet, a poetic form usually used for poems about love; it is fourteen lines long and ends with a rhyming couplet. In this prologue I learn that Romeo and Juliet's families are in the middle of a never ending war, ' an ancient grudge', but these two young rivals don't seen to be able to help themselves their love is written in the stars, as 'star cross'd lovers'. I also believe that their love isn't the only pre-planned part of this story and their death is also mapped out, deaths which stop the rivalry, 'burying














