Romeo and Juliet

They let their fears take over and they took the easy way out. If they had wanted to, they could have just decided not to be together. They rushed into love that was forbidden by their families. Their families were in a feud, yet they both disobeyed their parents and married each

The main reason this love was forbidden was because of the fighting between the parents, without this factor, they may have had a shot at a life together. It was quite obvious that the decisions not only affected the teens

     In addition to reigning over their love lives, fate also causes the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. Near the end of the play, it appears Romeo and Juliet have a significant

The play Romeo and Juliet was one of the most famous love tragedies ever written. This love story unfortunately had a fatal ending. Many people argue over why the lovers had died, was it over Free Will or Fate?

In the play, Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, is about two “star crossed” lovers who are destined to end in a tragic accident. Fate is the path that leads to the future and cannot be altered no matter the outcome. Set in Shakespearean time, fate was believed to be in control of people’s lives. The fact that Romeo and Juliet would never live a peaceful life, none of the tragedies would have not taken place if they had not met. In the prologue of the play, Shakespeare outlines that “two star’d crossed lovers take their life”. This foreshadowing creates the sense that fate shall claim superiority. The powerful nature of Romeo

“And if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.” Here Friar Laurence is telling Juliet that his plan with the remedy so she can leave with Romeo after she wakes up. He also tells her, “Look that thou lie alone: let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take now this vial being in bed.” This is when he tells her what to do with the vial the night before the wedding with Paris. He is responsible because he told her to drink the potion when she could have just run away or kept refusing to marry Paris.

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we meet the characters and how their actions led to a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet met, end up falling in love, and – since both cannot dream of living without the other – take their lives. While the play ends in a tragic death for both characters, it was their own reckless decisions; though others might believe that it was destiny that played a large role in the lovers’ downfall. However, the majority of the text evidence points to them making their own choices leading to their demise.

Fate used Juliet’s fatal flaw of impulsiveness to control her life. When fate used Juliet’s

Many people blame fate for the death of Romeo and Juliet. One reason being that Romeo and Juliet’s meeting at the party was determined by fate. However, Romeo went to the party because of love, and he wanted to see if he could find some else better than Rosaline. He saw Juliet and found a new love. Therefore, love is a stronger competitor than fate for their meeting. Moreover, another argument is that the prologue calls Romeo and Juliet “star-crossed lovers”, also known as lovers who are doomed because of outside forces (such as fate). While Romeo and Juliet may have had tough circumstances regarding their relationship, their doom was their own decision. They killed themselves in the name of love, not because of chance or

In Pyramus and Thisbe, Ovid says, "They longed to marry, but their parents forbade. Love, however, cannot be forbidden," (947). In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare writes, “My only love sprung from my only hate!/Too early seen unknown, and known too late!/Prodigious birth of love it is to me,/That I must love a loathed enemy," (1.5.138-141). The parents of the two teens did not support the relationship and didn't want them to be together. In Romeo and Juliet, the hatred between their families kept them from seeing each other. Lord and Lady Capulet wanted Juliet to marry Paris, but she was in love with and married to Romeo. In Pyramus and Thisbe, their parents did not want them to be together and wouldn't let them see each other. The classic forbidden love element was very much included in these two timeless tales and was represented in these families’

The first people to blame are Capulet and Lady Capulet. The reason the are to blame is because they wanted to force marriage on Juliet. When Juliet's marriage was first introduced Lady Capulet said juliet could choose if she wanted to marry Paris. In Act 3, Scene 5 Capulet and Lady Capulet tell Juliet that she will marry Paris on Thursday morn at Saint Peter’s Church. Capulet barges into Juliet's room and tells her she will marry Paris or she will be cast away. Juliet then goes to see Friar Lawrence to see if he can do anything about the marriage. Friar Lawrence offers Juliet a drink that will make her sleep for at least two days. Juliet drinks it and her parents think she passed away, so she gets

To summarize the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo meets Juliet at the Capulet’s party, decides to marry her, and goes to Friar Laurence for help. Shortly after their marriage, Romeo gets in a fight and kills Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, resulting in Romeo’s exile. After Tybalt’s death, Juliet’s parents arrange her marriage with Count Paris. Juliet initially refuse but after going to the friar for help and creating a plan to fake her death, she agrees to get married. Her decision makes her father very happy and he changes the wedding date, ruining Juliet’s plan. To improvise, Juliet takes the poison a day earlier than she had planned. Taking the poison early eliminates the time needed to inform Romeo of the plan. This means that when Romeo hears of Juliet’s death, he believes she is actually dead and decides to kill himself at her tomb. Shortly after Romeo’s suicide, Juliet wakes up. The play ends with Juliet killing herself with a dagger after seeing Romeo’s corpse and the two families discovering their remains. Whether the outcome of Shakespeare’s play was a result of fate or free will is much debated but, imagine the ending of the play if Romeo, Juliet or Friar Laurence made a different decision and it is likely the result would not be a tragedy. This is why even though fate brought the protagonists together, the outcome of the play was a result of free will.

The characters themselves believe that there lives are controlled by fate and luck it was Romeo blames his misfortune down to the stars he was portrayed as a believer in fate rather than free will he had a feeling from the very beginning of the play that he and Juliet would never really end up together and that fate would get I the

Romeo’s tragic flaw influenced his decisions throughout the play, which shows his characteristics of being a tragic hero. Romeo has been pining for a woman who rejected him, and it has caused him to be very depressed. Romeo thinks he can never be happy again, but he meets a beautiful girl ,Juliet, who he then falls in love with. This results in his rash decision to marry Juliet after only one day of knowing each other. Romeo is upset about being rejected but to cheer himself up, he crashes the Capulet's party to meet other girls.

First off, Romeo had a major role in his and Juliet’s demise and made many free will decisions that