Romeo And Juliet Fate Essay

Through the choices one makes, one can choose one’s destiny. Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet the characters can be seen making choices that ultimately lead to their devastating fate at the end of the play. The tragedy written by William Shakespeare begins with Romeo a Montague attending a Capulet masquerade party with his friends. At the party, he meets a beautiful young lady named Juliet and exchanges a kiss with her. Later both Romeo and Juliet find out that they are both members of rival families. Juliet escapes the party and is seen on her balcony expressing her love for Romeo whom she just met and how she wishes that he wasn’t a Montague so they could be together. Unfortunately for Juliet, Romeo had been hiding and listening to her

Juliet’s choice to trust Friar Lawrence's extremely risky plan for Juliet could not have been an easy decision considering the plan could have gone wrong in many ways. Juliet as a matter of fact questions the plan when saying, “Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, / To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, / And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?” (Shakespeare 4.3.32-34). This is just one of the many speculations Juliet has regarding the plan Friar Lawrence has thought up for her. Although Juliet doubts the plan she still decides to follow through with it anyways. The decision to follow through with the faulty plan was a brave decision to make and ultimately cost her her life. Juliet was not the only one faced with decisions throughout the play but Romeo was as well. Romeo has been seen making some not-very-smart decisions since Act 1 of the play. Attending the Capulet masquerade party was immediately a bad decision considering he is a member of their rival family. But Romeo does not learn from his mistakes as he continues to dig a deeper and deeper hole. One decision that directly affected the outcome of the story was Romeo’s very impulsive decision to go to Juliet’s grave and kill himself without even thinking it through. His friend Balthasar even warned him about making this quick decision. Balthasar says to Romeo, “ I do beseech you, sir, have patience. / Your looks are pale and wild, and do import / Some misadventure” (Shakespeare 5.1.27-29a). This is Romeo’s most impactful and harmful decision as it directly changes the course of the play. By choosing to disregard his friend's advice Romeo has impulsively decided to make the irreversible decision to end his own life without even thinking of the consequences. It is revealed that Romeo killed himself just moments before Juliet even woke up and if he had chosen to think