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Free Will In Romeo And Juliet

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Fate is Decided for Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare wrote “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives” (Shakespeare Prologue 6). William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo & Juliet focuses on two teenagers who fall in love from competing houses. Both families don't like each other and have a feud. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. Capulet and the Montague expect their families to be the best of the others. The prince will eventually call off the feud, but a few things happen before that happens. A way Shakespeare shows how hate can lead to bigger problems in the future is the feud between the Capulets and Montagues. 3.1 Mercutio teases Tybalt and gets cocky, then gets killed by Tybalt. “O Romeo, Romeo brave Mercutio is a deal’ (Shakespeare 3.1 Line 10). …show more content…

“Nay as they dare”. I will bite my thumb at them” (Shakespeare 1.1 Line 36). It shows how the servants hate each other and don't wanna be nice since they are from opposing houses and don't like each other. This overall paragraph shows how hate plays a big role in the play. Another way Shakespeare portrays how family expectation impacts the characters is the fact that they know about Romeo and force Juliet to stay inside. She gets a vile from Friar Lawrence to fake death to get out of her own house and away from the captivity and the rules of her parents. “When presently all veins run dry” (Shakespeare 4.2, Lines 95-96). This shows how the vile will make her fake her death and follow Friar's plan until it is complete and she gets to live “happily ever after” with Romeo. This next quote shows that even though Romeo is a Montague, he will still be as sweet. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet” (Shakespeare 2.2 Lines 43-44). It shows how Juliet does not care what house Romeo is, she will always love him while her parents don't know about the relationship between Romeo and

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Juliet is expressing her concerns that she is in love with a Montague and she doesn’t think that her family will be approving their relationship. Juliet questions why does Romeo have to be a Montague. During this soliloquy, Juliet also says the famous lines,” What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet”, meaning that a name is a name and a person is a person and the name does not label the person (II.ii.43-44).

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Along with making it very difficult for Romeo to spend time with Juliet, this nonsensical loathing also leads to the deaths of some important characters during the play. A quote which supports this explanation of irrational hatred can be noticed in the prologue when it is said that, “Do with death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love”(Prologue 1-12). Illustrated here is, how before the play even begins it is made clear that the rancor between the two families will ultimately lead to death and forbidden love. This quote also demonstrates, how the theme of contempt performs a very large role in the play.

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Here we see that Juliet, while simply thinking her thoughts aloud, is not thinking about any of the possible lovely lives her and Romeo could live, or even non romantic things, as most young girls do, yet she is wishing that he was not a Montague. She is doing so because she has been taught her whole life that being a Montague was evil, and also that she should not associate with them, yet she is falling in love with one. She is pondering what makes him such a lovely person, despite having the name Montague, and how that can even be. She even goes so far as to compare him to a rose, saying that even if a rose was called something else, it would still be a sweet, beautiful

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Throughout the play “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare develops a theme, that someone’s name shouldn’t decide anything for them or define them, by using various literary devices such as metaphors, foreshadowing, as well as irony. The tale of Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy where two fall in love and end up taking their lives because of their family feud which came between their love. During Juliet’s soliloquy, she voices her frustration that their families are feuding, too, for a reason nobody knows of. She compares Romeo to a flower when discussing how even “which we call a rose [was called] by any other name[, it still] would smell as sweet” (Shakespeare 2.2). The metaphor talks about how a rose wouldn’t change even with a different name, it talks

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She continues having the internal struggle of accepting Romeo as a lover because of his name. She uses a flower comparison to overcome her struggle with Romeo’s name. She knows Romeo is perfect like a rose. Eventually, Juliet has to accept that the name of Romeo, like the fragrance of a rose, will not change depending on the rose. (REWORDING OF MB)

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This complicates things. Tybalt wants to fight Romeo and kill him for crashing the Montagues party but Romeo does not like the idea of now fighting because he just got married to Tybalt's cousin, Juliet. So Mercutio decides to fight Romeo because Romeo will not do it. In a twist, the fighting ends with Tybalt killing Mercutio. That does not make Romeo happy at all.

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When she announces this, she is implying that his family name has nothing to do with their love and they should be together. For instance, a rose would still smell the same even if we called it something completely different than "rose." She believes that Romeo’s personality is not defined by him name. Romeo's name is only a label, and Juliet would have still loved him even if he had a completely different name. She is expressing her love for him through her feelings.

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What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, where he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name and for thy name, which is no part of thee take all myself.” (Juliet 2.2, 38).

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