Fate’s destruction of freedom and morality in Shakespearean tragedy.

• Main Author: Ng, Bertram Jian Wen.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14499
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The prologue of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet describes the driving force of the plot in how “from forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” (Prologue.5-6). The term “fatal” is explained in the footnote as “ill-fated”, while “star-crossed” is elaborate...