Free will can cause teens to make both superior and poor decisions, but with factoring in other people’s actions to the situation it can lead to an unintended ending such as death. William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, written in 1597, is about two young “star-crossed lovers” who fall in love and are kept apart by their feuding families. After facing many difficulties they decide to kill themselves so they can be together. According to The Choice is Yours: The Fate of Free Will by Marcelo Gleiser, young teens’ free will can drive them to do unexpected things that affect both themselves, their families, and others around them. Some of Romeo and Juliet’s decisions are based on freedom of choice.
Throughout everyone's life, decisions are made using free will. But in the end, fate is what determines the outcome of everything. In the book Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there are decisions made by the characters using their free will, but no decisions could’ve stopped the tragedy of there love. All of the events leading up to Romeo and Juliet's death were not caused by free will, but they were caused by fate.
Passion Without Reason Imagine two crossed star lovers end up dying for each other. These two lovers are Romeo and Juliet. The question is were the deaths of Romeo and Juliet caused by fate or free will? In the story, two families have a big feud.
Free Will in Romeo and Juliet An individual has the right to choose whatever path they want to pursue freely. Every action will have a consequence. It is up to the person to decide how they live it whether or not it is a reasonable choice or unethical. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the characters face various situations where they have to rely on their own free will to advance further into their different endings.
Have you ever wondered if you truly had control over your own actions? Fate is the predetermined events in a person’s life. Free will if the actions that a person takes. Fate and free will are both expressed throughout Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In the play, there are multiple factors that could have led to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, some of which were caused by fate and some of which were caused by free will.
Death, tragedy, and fate are just some of the themes in the play “Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespear, but were the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet really fate? No, Romeo and Juliet deaths were not caused by fate. Their deaths were caused by their own free-will, shown by Romeo’s rash decision making, Friar Lawrence's poor planning, and Juliets bad decisions. Romeo’s rash decision making is a reason for his and Juliet's deaths. This is shown after Tybalt kills Mercutio and, “Romeo kills Tybalt for revenge (3.1.88-142).”
While Shakespeare plays with the concept that Romeo and Juliet’s lives are left in the hands of fate, he also argues that individuals around them make choices of their own free will that cause Romeo and Juliet’s death. Friar Laurence's free will and the choices he makes impact the way Romeo and Juliet get to their fate. . While Friar Lawrence is talking to Romeo about his new found interest in Juliet, he has an idea about how they can end their families feud with their love. “For this alliance may so happily prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love,” (2.3.98). Here, Shakespeare shows that Friar Laurence is a character of hope.
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare explores fate and free will. Some people think fate determines the play's events, while others argue that the character's choices and actions determine their fate. The text evidences fate and free will play essential roles in the tragic ending. Free will is arguably the most crucial factor in this play that determines the outcome. "O, I am fortune's fool!"
Many people have different beliefs or opinions on many different subjects. Whatever people are debating about, both sides of an argument have good reasons to justify their opinion. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, a tragedy play, it is believed that the stars and fate and many more aspects of astronomy control everything, including people’s actions and their demises. This is what everyone believed during William Shakesphere’s time, that the stars and fate control us as science weren’t as developed during his time and many people still believe that fate and the stars still control us today. Many people also believe that people have free will and are in control of themselves and that a person's actions have consequences.
Many have debated between whether the tragedy in “Romeo and Juliet,” by Shakespeare was a result of fate or of freewill. Some argue that the stars were aligned against them from the beginning, while others say that the actions of some characters were to blame. Mercutio, Capulet, and Friar Lawrence were some key characters that would make their actions affect the ending result of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. In the beginning, the death of Mercutio and Tybalt’s death had made such a huge impact on the newly wed characters.
"A pair of star crossed lovers will take their lives." Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeares is a play about two lovers named Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet that come from two households that are enemies. Romeo enters a party hosted by the Capulets, meets Juliet and fall in love. Later on Juliet is forced to marry, so she fakes her death by drinking a potion. Romeo finds her body and kills himself.
’s free will? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the use of free will throughout the play would give Romeo and Juliet a one way ticket to their deaths. Their “fate” was determined by events that could have been prevented by some people’s decisions. Romeo and Juliet led towards the path of death because of their own choices! Times in the play when the characters use their free will include Tybalt’s decision to fight Mercutio, the Prince ordering Romeo to be banished (instead of being executed), and, Juliet’s decision to disobey her parents to marry Romeo.
Imagine all the decisions made in two days causing someone to die. This is the story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The two main characters are members of rival families that happen to meet and fall in love. The obstacles in the way of their relationship prove too difficult to overcome, and in the end, they kill themselves caused of the decisions made. In this play, free will leads to their death rather than fate.
I think that in the beginning when Romeo and Juliet saw each other for the first time they just fell in love with each other, “love at first sight”. In my own opinion, they’re destined for each other. But at the same time, I think fate took them there because they were destined for each other. If Mercutio hadn't taken Romeo to the party, then I wouldn't have thought that Juliet would’ve met Romeo. I think that it was their decisions that led them to death because when Tybalt and Romeo fought, Juliet thought that Romeo died and she said that he just wanted to get closer to her just to get to Tybalt to kill him.
Though the characters in the play seem to believe and to be completely convinced that something greater, such as “fate,” is controlling them, they only choose to do so since they do not want to take responsibility for the actions they have done. Throughout the play, Shakespeare argues between fate and free will acting upon the characters. Early in the play, the chorus immediately introduces the readers to a pair of “star-crossed lovers,” who later take their lives as quoted in the Prologue. The role of fate in the play is described to the reader as a “greater power” that’s complied within the characters and that is out of their reach and already “written in the stars.”
