is to be doomed

Question

I've encountered a sentence like the following. " Our destiny is to be doomed"

What does this mean exactly? And could you give the grammar name for " is to be verb+3" because I couldn't find it on the Internet. I would like to search it on the google as well.

NeilB · Answer

" Our destiny is to be doomed",  is suggesting that, no matter what they [we] do, we will always be doomed [to failure / to repeat past mistakes].

Destiny:

The events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future, or
The hidden power believed to control future events; fate.

Doomed:

likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated.

I'm guessing you are studying Romeo & Juliette...?

As for its grammatical name, probably:

A tautology (saying the same thing twice)

is to be doomed

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