Fate plays a huge role in “The Barber of Seville,” by Pierre Beaumarchais. At the start of the play the Count sees Rosine in Spain and immediately falls in love with her. At this point fate had already determined that they will be together. However the Count wants to test fate and make sure that Rosine like him for the right reasons. He dresses up as a soldier then as a music teacher in order to get inside Rosines’s house. Instead of just accepting that fate has them together the Count tries to test fate and almost succeeds in pushing Rosine away from him. Dr. Bartolo, the man whose house Rosine lives under has other ideas than what fate has in store. He believes that it is fate for him to marry Rosine and tries to push the matter by forcing Rosine into a marriage. Here we see two very different approaches, first the Count who fate says will marry Rosine is more calm about it and bides his time to make sure Rosine actually likes him on the the other hand Dr. Bartolo can probably sense that his fate is not to marry Rosine so he tries to fight fate and quickly force Rosine into a marriage with him. However as always fate wins out and Rosine ends up marrying the Count.