Q: In the prologue of the play, Romeo and Juliet are described as "star-crossed lovers", (victims of fate and destiny), but the action of the play shows that their tragic deaths are the result of human action. Do you agree? While Romeo and Juliet had the final choice to kill themselves, their circumstances meant that their love was always going to be ill fated (Romeo foreshadows this before the party, "My mind misgives some consequence …showed first 75 words of 487 total…

…showed last 75 words of 487 total…created by human action before they were born but once destined it was unchangeable by any human action. The prologue states that their families’ troubles had come to a stage where Romeo and Juliet had a ‘death-mark'd love’, as the ‘ancient grudge’ had to be headed for disaster. While the characters live their lives - violent, peaceful or otherwise - the fate of Romeo and Juliet operates irrespective of all this and makes them puppets.