Examples Of Free Will In Romeo And Juliet

From the very prologue of Romeo and Juliet, we are informed by Shakespeare that these two “star-cross’d lovers” are going to “take their life”. For the rest of the play, we are left to observe how they kill themselves and who or what leads them into doing so. However, placing the blame on one person or event would be impossible, as nobody was directly responsible for their demise. Instead, everything that could possibly have gone wrong did go wrong. Although both Romeo and Juliet end up thinking it was their own decision to kill themselves, there were many other factors that unwittingly forced them into the situation they eventually found themselves.

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a book of fate and how everyone in the world affects the happenings of this world. The author of this extraordinary book is William Shakespeare. Although Romeo and Juliet killed themselves, there were many people responsible for their deaths. It is arguable that the parents of the two lovers, Friar Laurence, and Romeo and Juliet themselves were the most responsible, some could say that the other main characters like Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt, the Nurse, and Paris were involved as well. There were many people responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, although they took their own lives, they were not all to blame.

Romeo and Juliet death, The person to blame for Romeo and Juliet death is Friar Lawrence. Friar Laurence is the most blame person their death because He married Romeo and Juliet, Make Juliet fake her death, and Left Juliet in tomb alone.

Furthermore, Romeo starts the whole tragedy. True, Juliet acts naïve, nonetheless Romeo acts hastily by encouraging the relationship. Prior to Romeo and Juliet’s encounter, Romeo is in an infatuation with Rosaline. In Act 1.1, Romeo depicts Rosaline's beauty and says, "She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair." Romeo’s love for Rosaline is only skin deep and

To start off, Romeo should not have even gone to the Capulet party in the first place, even if it was to spy on Rosaline. As soon as he saw Juliet, he completely forgot about Rosaline. This proves he knows as much about love as Juliet does. After the party he could have just left, but no. He decides to go spy on Juliet like a creep, then climbs her balcony so they can talk and kiss more. The next day he goes to Friar Lawrence and tells him that he is over Rosaline and now he is in love with Juliet. Romeo asks if he will help them. “ In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; ” said by Friar Lawrence ( DBQ : Project , 2013). Romeo then goes and duals Tybalt, and he dies. Romeo is then banished. When this happened, Romeo had already got married to Juliet. Later on, when Romeo finds Juliet, he thinks that she is dead. He could have just waited another minute and she would have woken up, but he went and killed himself. He was so quick he did not even think. After he did this, Juliet woke up and say he was dead so she killed herself because of Romeo’s death.

In the start from the film Romeo and Juliet. There was a scene taken place in Verona by the house of Capulet and Montague. It was created by the rival families; even the servants hate each other. A public fight erupts between Sampson and Gregory, two Capulet servants. Capulet and Montague are restrained from fighting by their wives. The prince intervenes, restoring order by proclaiming that he will impose a sentence of death on anyone who starts a fight. However time passes and it comes to a point where a Capulet ball takes place. Juliet’s father is wanting her to marry a young boy named Paris, who she has no interest what so ever. During the ball, Romeo and Juliet’s eyes are drawn to each other they fall in at first sight and then after the ball, they both confess the love they both have for each other. “My only love sprung from my only hate; too early unknown and known hate.” Quoted by Juliet and having a meaning of conflict going on. They did not know nor care about the rivalry their family had, they even got married

In the tragic play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo met Juliet from an enemy family in a party that he was not supposed to attend, and they quickly fell in love. Of course, this forbidden love brought unfortunate luck, and both Romeo and Juliet died at the end of the play. Who shall be held responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet? This question has been bothering people, and yet to be answered. There are indeed many variables that have affected this, but I think Romeo himself is responsible for his own death and the one of his wife Juliet. Since the beginning of the play, Romeo has been acting foolishly, and he could not behave and calm himself down. If he had behaved well and thought before doing whatever he was going to do, everything could’ve been better.

He does, however, later learn that she is a Capulet. They get married the day after the Capulet ball. Romeo sneaks out to the Capulet’s garden to see Juliet. There, they have a conversation declaring their love for each other. At the end the Nurse is calling Juliet, and Juliet decides that she want to get married as soon as possible. Doing this is a poor choice because she doesn’t know Romeo, all he did was charm her and that’s what Juliet thinks she is in love with. She doesn’t think of all of the consequences, and decides on the spot: “If that thy bent of love be honorable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, By the one that I’ll procure to come to thee…” (II.ii.150-152). They are getting married, blinded by their infatuation for each other, they don’t think about what can happen if the rest of their families find out. This is a poor choice because they really haven’t thought it through, and it is not be the brightest idea, seeing as they are coming from feuding families. These choices lead them to do anything for each other, because they love each other and continue to lead to their demise.

This happened because servant for Lord Capulet was sent to handle the invitations of his party, but his servant did not know how to read. In search of finding a way to tell the guests about the party, he found Romeo on the street and asked him to read the list of guests to him. After Romeo read them, the servant told Romeo and Benvolio to come to the party too, as long as they were not a Montague; Romeo decided to go because his love Rosaline was going to be there. The servant invited them by saying, “I’ll tell you without asking. My master is the great rich/ Capulet, and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray/ come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry!” (1.2.81-83). Because Romeo and Benvolio were in the right place at the right time to hear about the party, they decided to go. That party was where Romeo and Juliet first met and fell in love. If Romeo was not there to read the invitations, he would have never gone to the party and would have never ended up meeting Juliet in the first place. If that did not happen, they would not have ended up committing suicide to be with each other. But because of their faith and the timing of it all, Romeo ended up going to the party and they

Romeo and Juliet were facing many obstacles during the time they first encountered one another. Their, so-called, “love” sprung as they were both trying to escape from their present problems. Romeo was previously in love with a beautiful girl named Rosaline, although she couldn’t love him back and fulfill Romeo’s sexual desires because she was becoming a nun. He was heartbroken when he found out about this, and thus, he was left inconsolable. Once he discovered that Rosaline was attending the Capulet ball, he decided to sneak in. Minutes into the ball, Romeo sees Juliet and immediately professes his love for her. Juliet also had her own dilemmas to deal with. Some of which included being forced into marrying Paris, a man whom she did not love. Therefore, her love for Romeo was influenced by her reluctance to marry Paris. Prior to Romeo and Juliet’s encounter at the Capulet party, Juliet comments on marriage stating, “It is an honor that I dream not of,” (1.3.68). This quote shows that Juliet had no interest in getting married anytime soon, although when she meets

Fate is the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. Free will is closely linked to the concepts of responsibility, praise, guilt, sin and other judgements which apply only to actions that are freely chosen. A choice is something that you make.

Romeo and Juliet is a play about two young lovers who strives to be together, they are trying to change their fate using their own decisions. The decisions Romeo and Juliet make are based off of their own free will, which causes their ultimate demise. Through the decisions they make, causing a chain of events, the emotions which influence and fuel those decisions, and the consequences of each decision which causes the next choices that will need to be made.

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.

Shakespeare demonstrates that lack of Free Will plays the biggest role in vile consequences through the irony of Romeo’s blind belief in fate and Juliet’s explicit decisions. Romeo’s eagerness to hand his life over to what he knows as ‘Fate’ proves Shakespeare’s view that one ’s Free Will helps to remain in control. When Benvolio convinces Romeo to attend the Capulet’s party, Romeo testifies how he fears that the night will start Fate’s ticking clock.

Prior to meeting Juliet and the Capulet’s Party, Romeo was just a heart broken teenager when he heard Rosaline the girl he wanted to be with, decided to be a nun. When Romeo and Juliet met, he finally realizes his love for Rosaline was not real: "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight / for I ne'er saw true beauty till this night" (1.5.52-53). Within days of meeting, Romeo and Juliet says it was fate that brought them together and with that they decided to get married. After getting married, Romeo himself changed from a selfish non-caring