The quote "O, I am fortune's fool!" is a line said by Romeo in the play "Romeo and Juliet", Act 3, scene 1. Romeo is having a conversation with Lear, Benvolio, and Timon. Explicitly, according to literary experts, what Romeo means by saying that he is "fortune's fool" is that he's at the mercy of fate. This is important to the outcome of the storyline because the deaths of Romeo and Juliet were fated to happen.

In the play, Romeo delivers this line after he kills Tybalt to avenge Mercutio. By calling himself "fortune's fool," Romeo is saying he is a victim of fate, that he has been played, so to speak. The unhappy event occurs just after Romeo has secretly married Juliet, and the awful consequence is something that no one is able to predict.

At the point when he is talking with the other men, Romeo clearly means that he has been turned into a form of entertainment by destiny.

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