How can a person express a theme or idea in one of his works? Shakespeare often uses literary elements to help him express a theme. Sometimes he uses other elements to help him express a theme. Shakespeare teaches how love and bad decisions can cause a person to have different endings in their story using the role of fate in Romeo and Juliet and using the role of fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare uses the role of fate in Romeo and Juliet to show how love and bad decisions can change the ending of a story. First, fate brings these two “star-crossed lovers” together (R&J Prologue.6). The lovers are unlucky because they come from two families (the Montagues and the Capulets) who have had an "ancient grudge" (R&J Prologue.4). These two families hate each other so much that their servants started fighting in the first scene just because they belonged to the other family. The fact that the lovers are unlucky, yet still love each other is a bad decision because it leads to their downfall. Second, in the third act Romeo “killed Tybalt” by fate (R&J 3.1.178). Tybalt hates Romeo for crashing the party where Romeo met Juliet and he also hates Romeo because he is a Montague. Paris hates Romeo even when Romeo couldn't choose which family to be born into, it was fate. Then, Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel but Tybalt ends up killing Mercutio. In anger over Mercutio's death, Romeo kills Tybalt who has him exiled to Mantua. Even though he was angry about his friend's death, this action was a bad decision by Romeo because the exile caused problems for the lovers. So, they have to find a way to still be together. To further complicate the plot, Mr. Capulet promises Paris that Juliet “shall be married to” him (R&J 3.4.21). This arrangement occurs because Juliet was sad over Tybalt's death and Romeo's exile. The marriage forces Juliet to fake her death, which is the reason for Romeo's suicide. Romeo committed suicide because he didn't make his death fake. This is a bad decision because Juliet and Friar Laurence should have found a way to tell Romeo before she fakes her death. Fourth, “Romeo [is] dead and Juliet” is also dead (R&J 5.1.196). The lovers died because they were unlucky.