Destiny's Children
Romeo and Juliet Two households both alike in dignity, In fair Verona where we lay our scene From ancient grudge, break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean: 5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life: Whose misadventured piteous overthrows, Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love, 10 And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which but their children’s end nought could remove, Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage. The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. Destiny’s Children Destiny is what controls us; it runs our lives and it dictates our actions. The old adage “Man plans and G-d laughs” proves to be true again and again, especially when life’s greatest decisions must be made. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, we see the love between the play’s two heroes fall victim to the baseless hatred between their two estranged families.