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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Ng, Bertram Jian Wen.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2008
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14499
• المؤسسة: 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...