Destiny can be defined as "a power that determines and controls everything that is or happens" (Newfeldt (Ed.) p.431) while destiny can be described as “that which is predetermined to happen despite all efforts to change or prevent it”. (Newfeldt (Ed.) p.321) Therefore, destiny is the entity that decides everything that will happen, and destiny is the decision made by destiny. Tragedy can be defined as the dramatic depiction of serious and important actions that prove disastrous for the main character. This indicates that the tragedies in Romeo and Juliet were the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, and to say that fate and destiny were not responsible for these tragedies, is to say that the characters in the play, rather than an intangible force, were aware and they were in control. of the actions that caused those of Romeo and Juliet