The Importance Of Choices In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus briefly states one person has the fate of his or her own characteristics. Through Shakespearean time and passion, characters like Hamlet and Macbeth had a fate to decide on when it came to bad times. The famous play, Romeo & Juliet had more fatality than any other Shakespearean conflict. The feuding families of the Capulets and the Montagues had shaped the hearts and joys of the loving nation of Verona and set the fate of two star-crossed lovers for most of the play. There are many choices in which Romeo, the son of the Montagues, has to make decisions on that directs some outcomes of his life, which has impacted his fate and consequences among his peers and friends. Very often, what Romeo has done for himself

Tell me that I may sack the hateful mansion” (Shakespeare 3.3.110-113). The friar then tries to stop Romeo’s plan of action of suicide killing by saying, “Hold thy desperate hand” (Shakespeare 3.3.114). Romeo really wants to end his life right here by stabbing himself in the heart with his dagger; while Friar Laurence tries to stop the nonsense and allow Romeo to make a better choice than that. Romeo was testing his fate with the idea of the stabbing of his heart and soul, but in reality, people see things a bit different than just suicide killings and facing harsh punishment. Heading to the part where the Friar accepts Romeo’s offer of marriage with Juliet, Romeo sees him kindly stating, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (Shakespeare 2.3.93-95). What the Friar has said there could really bring in some internal conflict to the later parts of the play in which a bondage of love could be crucial to Romeo’s heart and soul as he makes his decisions. Romeo thought it right to offer the friar this love affair that would later affect the