Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is classified as a beautiful but tragic love story told in the form of a play. Romeo, of the house of Montague, is a passionate and impulsive lover who falls madly in love with the young Juliet, of the house of Capulet. Through a series of unfortunate events, their story ends with both of them committing suicide due to their ill-fated love for each other. It comes down to the question: Who is responsible for the lovers' deaths? The reader can place blame on Romeo's wrong actions or Juliet's inactions; You can also blame minor characters like the confidant lovers, the Nurse and the Friar. Almost every person in this story could be held responsible for the play's tragic ending, but perhaps the answer isn't one person or one action. Maybe the answer is simply fate. Although it can be convincingly argued that each character in Romeo and Juliet is responsible for the deaths of the young lovers, Shakespeare tells the reader from the beginning that their love was doomed due to fate. From the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare foreshadows that the story is destined to end horribly. The refrain, the prologue before the reader even enters the story itself, says "From the fatal loins of these two enemies" (Prologue. 5). The enemies were the Capulets and the Montagues. This sentence leads the reader to believe that the two teenagers were always destined for a tragic death from the moment they were born into their families. The next line we see reinforces the fate argument is: “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their own lives” (Prologue. 6). This implies that the lovers are Romeo and Juliet and now they know that these two will commit suicide at some point in the play. The star-cr... in the center of the paper... Omega and Juliet's love story constantly reminds the reader that it was no one's fault but fate itself. In conclusion, even though the reader can make a convincing argument that each character in Romeo and Juliet is responsible for the deaths of the young lovers, Shakespeare tells the reader that the relationship would never work, being completely based on fate. He reminds the reader of this in the prologue, before Romeo and Juliet even meet and in the moments before and after their secret wedding. Even when they are dying, the reader is reminded that fate has everything to do with why the story went so terribly wrong. Romeo and Juliet's love failed not because of their mistakes or the mistakes of others, but rather because of the fate that was in store for them from birth. Romeo and Juliet were destined to love each other, fall and die for the greater good of Verona.