Of course it includes the phrase "star-crossed lovers" which has a tendency to stick in the mind. But the whole idea of saying beforehand what is going to happen contributes to the feeling that the outcome is predestined. The normal human way of experience is not to know what is coming and to experience things in chronological order. Having someone tell you the result first makes what follows seem inevitable.

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Osvaldo Williams

9 September, 17:54

Of course it includes the phrase "star-crossed lovers" which has a tendency to stick in the mind. But the whole idea of saying beforehand what is going to happen contributes to the feeling that the outcome is predestined. The normal human way of experience is not to know what is coming and to experience things in chronological order. Having someone tell you the result first makes what follows seem inevitable.

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Teresa Stewart · Answer 1

But the whole idea of saying beforehand what is going to happen

contributes to the feeling that the outcome is predestined. The

normal human way of experience is not to know what is coming and to

experience things in chronological order. Having someone tell you

the result first makes what follows seem inevitable.

If the device of telling the ending before the play starts seems

strange, consider how many classic movies start with the ending and

then tell the story as a flashback: Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevand

and Rebecca for example.