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Examples Of Free Will In Romeo And Juliet

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Free Will is a Killer In this essay, evidence will be provided to support the thesis of the fact that free will was the cause of death for the star cross’d lovers of Romeo and Juliet. Firstly, the essay will consist of evidence that suggest Shakespeare wrote his play with a direct intent to mislead the audience, he purposefully implanted a seed of Free Will and naivety in the main characters to ensure appropriate standards of duty’s and obligations, were not met. The essay will next analyses the effect the Elizabethan era had on the play, and the simple traditional behavior/personality traits that accompanied the era. Finally, how free will affected the actions of Tybalt Capulet, in turn the impact they had on the lead up to the death of Romeo and Juliet. All …show more content…

The play incorporated the era’s traditions and customs to appropriately fit each characters unique identity. The identity effectively displayed traits that were unheard off doing the era, such as, impractically being rebellious to your father, or disrespectful towards your family. Juliet was far from the typical Elizabethan era women, her personality was rebellious. “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! (Act 3, Scene 5, Page 8). Described as disobedient by her father, Juliet pursued to have a say in matters concerning her, unfortunately as the daughter of a civil family, she couldn’t make her own choices about her life and unlike Romeo, she had no freedom to roam around the city. Juliet’s personality and actions did not exhibit socially acceptable traits of an Elizabethan women, and she believed she had just as much free will has Romeo, this in turn also made her naïve because she was so young she most like didn’t fully understand how she was meant to act. Therefore her belief in free will was the cause of her death as she did not appropriately follow tradition and rebelled against

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