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Romeo And Juliet Fate Vs Free Will

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Destiny vs Free Will has been a debate of which takes more control in stories and in real life. I believe that free will/personal choices take more control in the lives of people. This can be proven by the stories The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe. The choices that these characters made in the stories greatly affected how the story progressed and how their lives ended in tragedy.

First, in the story of Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2, Capulet sends a servant with a list of people to send out invitations to their ball: “Through fair Verona; find those persons out, Whose names are written there, and to them say, My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.” Since the peasant can not read he luckily finds Romeo and Benvolio …show more content…

Romeo soon spots the name ‘Rosaline’, a girl who recently rejected Romeo, was on the list, Romeo is now intrigued to “go” into the party in order to see her and try again to earn her love. But Benvolio encourages him to not just go because Rosaline is there but to see other women who can possibly be better than Rosaline. Act 1, Scene 5 Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio (Romeo’s friend) go to the Capulet ball with masks, as the party is a masquerade ball. In the ball Romeo soon meets Juliet which from that point onward they fall in love, get married in secret, plan to live a new life together, and sadly end their fate together. From this point when I read Romeo and Juliet, I knew personal choices/free will takes control. If Romeo had never chosen to go to the party because he could have possibly feared that Rosaline would reject him once again, he would have never seen Juliet. Thus not progressing the story, but since Romeo did go to the ball, he …show more content…

On Monday morning, it was raining heavily, and I was deciding if I should take my P.E clothes, “I should take them just in case we might have P.E.” I decided to take them, go into my parents car, and arrive at school. Once I entered the school, walked into the P.E area, I noticed that a lot of people were missing. Then my friend walked up to me and said “Did you bring your P.E clothes? You guys are doing P.E today.” I was obviously flabbergasted as to why we are doing P.E when it’s raining. The majority of the time we go to the gym and do nothing but chill and do homework. I thought my friend was lying, but nonetheless, I went to the locker room and saw that the majority of the boys were changing. When I noticed that, I was soon grateful that I made the choice of bringing my clothes because if I had never brought my clothes I would have earned a zero for that day and possibly lowered my grade in that class. From that experience, I argue that a person's free will and personal decisions have an impact on the plot's progression and its chance for

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