Have you ever felt like you didn't have a choice in what was happening to you? If you ever had just know that Romeo and Juliet felt the same way before they both ended up dying. If you don't know what Romeo and Juliet is it's a play by shakespeare. In the play there are two rival families and their children fall in love but since they cant be together because of their parents fight they try and escape to be with each other. In the end they both end up dying due to not being able to talk to each other quick enough. This all happened because their called star crossed lovers which means two people who love each other aren't able to be together because of some reason. Another big part of Romeo and Juliet is something called free will. Free will is the ability to do whatever you want without anyone stopping you. An example of free will in Romeo and Juliet is in act 5 scene 3 where Romeo takes poison to kill himself when he sees Juliet's body. He does this as a way to defy the gods that made them star crossed lovers instead of living without Juliet. Free will is a big part of the real world and the end of Romeo and Juliet. …show more content…
Fate is when your future or whatever your going to do is decided by a higher power whatever it be. This means everything that you will do and that happens around you has already been determined by something. In act 1 scene 4 a quote can represent fate guiding them”. This shows how fate already started to guide this story from the beginning and how big a role it plays in this whole story too. Fate drove everything in the story of Romeo and juliet and caused this whole story to