Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare about two teenage lovers from two families that hold a deep hatred for eachother. With the help of a local friar, the two are sent through a complex plan to get married and run off together. While the original plan seems to be simple, as it unwinds, it shows it’s many flaws. The two end up both committing suicide because of the miscommunication from everyone involved. All of the characters in the play have a number of motivations and reasons they act as they do.
Romeo and Juliet is a well-known tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is about two star-crossed lovers who can not be in love because of their family’s hatred towards each other. Throughout the play, there were problems that the characters caused that lead up to Romeo and Juliet’s death. The main one to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death is Tybalt and this is why. Tybalt is the one to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death because of him being hot-headed, he got Romeo banished.
Most people are familiar with the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet. It is a classic play by William Shakespeare where two kids in feuding families fall in love and eventually kill themselves just to be together. The play has a few characters to blame for this tragedy, such as Tybalt and Friar Laurence, but the most apparent one would be Romeo. The first character, Tybalt, was introduced as being a hothead and was very violent. In Act 3 Scene 1, Tybalt and Romeo fight.
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.
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare that has two young people who fall in love. Fate is involved and not on their side because they will take their lives. Fate is not the only outside force Impacting Romeo and Juliets outcome. The other force is the feud Between The Montagues and Capulets. Lord Montagues and Lord Capulets do not Know what the feud is about.
In conclusion, the outcome of the play was due to free will because of decisions made by Romeo, Juliet and Friar Laurence. For instance, Romeo’s decision to go to the Capulet party allows for the protagonists to meet, and his decision to drink poison after hearing of Juliet’s fake death results in her real one. Another example is Juliet’s decision to part with the nurse and go to the friar lead to in her taking a potion, resulting in the Romeo’s suicide and therefore, Juliet. Additionally, the friar contributed to their deaths by helping them with their problems. If he was more impervious to their pleas, they would not be dead at in the conclusion.
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).”
Have you ever loved someone so much that you would die for them if you couldn't be with them? That happens in the story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It is one of his most popular plays. In the story we learn about two crossed lovers who try everything just to be together, but it ends in a horrible tragedy. Their story takes place in Verona,Italy during the fourteenth century.
Humans always wonder if the decisions that brought them to the point where they are today is by fate. Does every choice people make is through their own free will or has fate made the choices for them? And finally are humans aware of the choices they make? In the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the author leaves one of the most thought provoking question for the audience to resolute which is whether Romeo and Juliet’s tragic demise was on account of fate or free will. Shakespeare leaves many evidence of both fate and free will choices that the “star crossed” lovers have overcame through their three day adventures through romance.
’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.
Romeo and Juliet is a play about hate, love, and death. This could have ended with just hate and love, but Tybalt had to create it into a whole new scenario. Tybalt had to lie, kill, go against Juliet’s true love. Tybalt is the one the blame for the tragedy against Romeo and Juliet, because of all of the differences and the rivalry against Romeo.
Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian lyricist and novelist, once stated, “I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed.” This means that destiny is controlled by our actions and how we choose to do something but fate is not able to be controlled and is something that occurs without us knowing about it.
Verona, a city in which a pair of “star-crossed lovers” and all of its citizens overall, blame the “greater power,” fate, to veil their own actions. Fate and free will, both play a major part in Romeo and Juliet. However, only one of the two is actually true. On one side, fate supposedly controls the character’s destiny. But they are completely unaware that it is actually their free will and their own actions in which they are in control of.
Was it fate or free will that killed Romeo and Juliet? In the prologue of this play, Shakespeare refers to Romeo and Juliet as “A pair of star-cross'd lovers.” Star crossed lovers are people whose love is destined to end in tragedy. Free will is when people are able to make their own decisions and have consequences based off their decisions instead of predetermined consequences. Fate was definitely the reason for Romeo and Juliet’s tragic deaths because of the unexplainable coincidences, uncharacterized choices, and conscious decisions that all lead to the same inescapable outcome.
The theme of Fate vs. Free Will is dominant in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; however the theme of fate is more significant than free will. In the play both Romeo and Juliet meeting was contributed by fate as Shakespeare mentioned in the prologue that Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed lovers that were meant to meet, fall in love and their death would be the reason for the feud to end between the two families. Fate was the reason Capulet’s servant asked Romeo and Benvolio to help him read the invitation for him that contained all the names of the people that were invited to the ball Capulet hosted. “…If you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine.
