Free Will In Romeo And Juliet

Furthermore, when Juliet came to Friar Lawrence for advice while threatening to commit suicide he said, “To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead” (IV.i.110). Friar Lawrence did not try to reason with Juliet, and was unsuccessful in finding another solution (compound). This demonstrates that he may have been able to prevent Romeo’s

According to Act V Scene III it states, “Come, I’ll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of nuns.” Juliet relies “ Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. Then Friar Lawrence left Juliet to be with her husband. According to this quote, it seems like Friar Laurence does not care for Juliet. He is only trying to protect himself from the watchman. He should not have done that because earlier in the book she was threatening to kill herself. According to Act IV Scene I, it states “ I long to die if what thou speak'st speak not of remedy. According to that quote, she's saying if you don’t have anything to fix this I will be able to take my own life to be with Romeo, hat s when Friar Lawrence gives her the potion and tells her to take it.He left her in a upsetting mood. Hs e had more of a chance to take her life. He should have conforted her, but he didn’t, and left her to be on her own. Then she had killed herself.

Juliet then threatens to kill herself if Friar Lawrence can’t stop her from marrying Paris. Friar Lawrence then gives her a sleeping potion to prevent the wedding. Friar Lawrence states, “Take thou this vial.” (IV.i.95). Friar Lawrence tells Juliet to take the vial that has the sleeping

This displays how Friar knew he should not say this, and purely how dangerous it would be for Juliet to drink this potion. Friar Lawrence causes Juliet to be killed by recklessness. He is a bad influence. Some may say that Friar Lawrence was just doing what he believed was right, and that he was not

Friar Lawrence was the most responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet in several ways. He was just out of his mind. He made not only one mistakes, but many mistakes that all caused Romeo and Juliet's death. First of all, he made one major mistake that he could have prevent. He trusted a teenage girl, Juliet. Teenagers aren’t stabilize, and the most scaring thing is that most of them don’t think of the consequences of love. Friar gave her fake-death poison. This is crazy! This decision was a very poor choice on the Friar's behalf. Here, he shows his irresponsibility by saying, "If... thou hast the strength of will

Friar Lawrence plays a big part in causing the death of Romeo and Juliet because he secretly marries them knowing something either negative or positive will happen. Friar even tells Romeo the cautions for he says 'Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.' (Act II Scene III 97) Friar marries them because he thinks that the marriage is going to end the feud between the families of Romeo and Juliet. He knows that even though Romeo and Juliet are in love they will never be able to see each other. Not in a grave to lay one in, another out to have” (Act II scene III 85) Also, if Friar Lawrence did not give Juliet the potion that she was going to use to deceive her family into thinking she was dead to get out of her marriage to Paris and make Romeo aware of what was going to happen, their deaths would not have occurred. Romeo goes to the tomb thinking Juliet is really dead after Balthasar accidently informed him of Juliet’s apparent death not knowing of her plan. If he had stayed there longer without taking the poison he had obtained from Apothecary they both would not have killed themselves. He brought the poison to the tomb to end his own life next to Juliet after seeing for himself if she was really dead. Romeo did not want to live without Juliet.

First, Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet to end the feuding between the families. He says, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be:/ For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.” (2.3.90-92). Secondly, he organizes a plan for Juliet to take the potion to fake her death. In the plan he also decides to send a message to Romeo explaining their plans but Friar John says “I could not send it – here it is again –/ Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,” (5.2.14-15) to Friar Lawrence so Romeo was never informed of the plan. Lastly, at the end of the play when he finds Juliet and a dead Romeo, he leaves and says “Come go, good Juliet, I dare no longer stay.” (5.3.159). Once both sides are involved, it means Romeo and Juliet must be

Friar lawrence gives juliet the potion so she can be in a deep sleep and not have to marry paris because everyone will think she’s dead. I think this is a reason that he caused her death because if he didn’t give her this then romeo wouldn’t of thought she was dead and he wouldn’t of killed himself and neither

Romeo and Juliet is a story by William Shakespeare that depends heavily on the idea of fate. Most of the events that occur are linked to fate, which is the things that happen that are out of a person’s control. Another cause of events in the story is free will. Free will is the choices people make on their own merits. Although free will affects some of the occurrences in the story, fate has a larger role in controlling the character's actions.

Romeo and Juliet Final Project In Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, there are many instances—adverse occurrences—where the reader does not know whether to blame fate, or the decisions made by Romeo and Juliet. The themes of fate and destiny are important factors in the deaths of the two characters, because most conflicts in this play result from fate and sheer bad luck. In the end however, Romeo and Juliet’s deaths are both due to the impulsive decisions they make, and the fact that the stars are not on their side. The play features a scene where Romeo allows his anger to overcome him, when Tybalt kills Mercutio. Due to Mercutio’s death, Romeo feels that Tybalt should have to pay when he says, “That late thou gavest me, for Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company.

Despite the common belief that people are able to control their own destiny, William Shakespeare shows that only fate is able to control the future. In the play Romeo and Juliet set in Verona during the 1300s, Shakespeare describes the life of two forbidden lovers from feuding Capulet and Montague households and the struggles they endure in order to be together. During the Pprologue, the Chorus, acting as Everyman, hints that the two star-crossed lovers will take their life causing their fate to be sealed. Romeo and Juliet face the obstacles of secrecy, marriage, murder, and exile, yet in the end, their fate causes their escape planplan of escape to fail. Shakespeare incorporates foreshadowing to display the theme of fate controlling one’s destiny.

In today’s society, the notion of fate and free will is a pervading influence on movies, novels, plays and more. The Matrix for one conveys the concept through the iconic scene of choosing to bend a knee towards fate with the blue pill or making fate bend a knee towards Neo with the red pill. Even more exemplifying this is the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare in which the offspring of two warring families fall in love with each other. Unfortunately, the duo and their kin precipitate a series of events that led to their eventual downfall. This begs the question, is Romeo and Juliet at fault or was it outside their power?

Fate has brutal ways of twisting one's destiny and it surely did for both Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare wrote what is now known as the romantic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The play is highly recognized for it’s astonishingly composed writing. Another thing this play provides is the numerous debates that have come up from this very tragedy. One of the common arguments is between whether this tragedy was controlled by fate or by free will? For sure we can determine that the undoing of the two star-crossed lovers was in the hands of fate itself this is because of how critical is was for them to be born into rival families, their meeting was destined not chosen, and finally how they are always being battered by obstacles when they try

The concept of predetermined destiny in literature has been prevalent for millennia. Some famous works include the works of Sophocles around the myth of Oedipus, the Odyssey, La Forza del Destino, Macbeth, and one of William Shakespeare’s most well-known stories, Romeo and Juliet. Destiny, fate, the future, karma, fortune, the divine will, the star’s will, or the outcome, whatever you wish to call it, are all a higher power that controls the lives, actions, or consequences of people in literature, and in some beliefs, reality. This destiny in almost all literature controls the characters and environment in a story. This control causes different events occur, that lead to other events, until a resolve or the end of the story.

Alex Sutton Mrs. Riegel G4 17 April 2015 The tragic fate of Romeo and Juliet Some people may not believe that fate is something real that actually exists in the world. These people doubt that there is anything that is meant to be or supposed to happen, thinking that there is always a way around difficult problems, thinking that it isn't necessarily going to end up a certain way. They believe that whatever happens in their lives comes as a result of the choices that they make with their own free will. Others, however, know that whatever will happen during the path of their lives is inevitable, and every moment is predetermined and set before them like some sort of map; in layman's terms, fate.