In the tragic love story “Romeo and Juliet”, the themes of love, light and dark, chance, and overall fate are apparent. However, Romeo and Juliet’s downfall was a result of their actions, not fate. In this essay, I will argue that the deaths of Romeo and Juliet were not because of fate, but of their own doing.
In the opening of the play, the chorus is singing about Romeo and Juliet, and predicts that their life together will come to an ill-fated conclusion. By already knowing from the beginning that their lives would not end well, we as readers can see how their life choices brought them to their deaths. They could already see that they were not meant to be when faced with the barriers that prevented their public marriage. Not only that, but they continued to make rash decisions and blame the outcome on fate. Obviously, they were responsible for what happened to them since they killed themselves, yet they and everyone else keeps blaming their deaths on ‘what was already supposed to happen’.
The ‘star cross’d” lovers deaths were directly a result of free will, such as Romeo’s quick
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The Frair has a problem with timing, and arrives to all of the key events in the tragedy a second too late. For example, immediately after he heard from Friar John that Romeo did not get the message about Juliet’s “death”, he rushes to the tomb, where Romeo has just died and Juliet is awakening. If he had left a minute earlier, he could’ve prevented Romeo’s death as well as Juliet’s, which resulted from her husband’s demise.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the star-cross’d tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a result of freewill thanks o suicide, poison, failure to complete necessary actions, and the blindingness of young love. Romeo and Juliet is a story of hatred, feuding, consequences, young love, and free will, things that happen to almost all of us at some point in our lives and affect us all