Excuses are blames that people use to cover their own actions up. In Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet”, it is not fate or destiny it is the two star-crossed lovers decisions that bring them down in the end. All throughout the story, all the things that had happened were all placed by their own choices, things that happened to them were not brought to them by fate or destiny, it was all their own choices and no one else's. Both, Romeo and Juliet had made the choices to determine their fate. The one decision that changed the whole play was when they chose to get married. The Nurse told Juliet, “Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence's’ cell; There stays a husband to make you a wife” (Shakespeare 418). They chose to get married behind their parents back, which in the era this was wrote marriage without consent would never work. Another decision is when they go and kill themselves. Romeo said these words before he died “ Here’s to my love! [Drinks.] O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” ( Shakespeare 473). He chose to drink the vial because Juliet faked her death. With this, Juliet killed herself after she woke up and found Romeo dead on the floor next to her. These are all their decisions …show more content…
During the story and meeting in town “They decide that very night they would try to slip away and steal out through the city into the open country where at last they could be together in freedom” (Shakespeare 488). Going outside to meet each other and spend the night together was their own choice. Fate and destiny did not tell them that is was their fate to leave their houses and see each other. It was a decision that they made on their own. Talking through wall “Semiramis, in house so close together that one wall was common to both. Growing up thus side by side they learned to love each other” (Shakespeare 488). It was also not destiny they