Romeo And Juliet Fate Vs Free Will

In Shakespearse’s classic play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers created one of the most notorious tragedies known to man. Romeo and Juliet met as an act of a single force known as fate. Fate is the idea used to describe a circumstance when it is meant to happen; fate is the living body responsible for controlling everything, except the decisions you personally make.

The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays, published in 1597. It is a story about how, “A pair of star-cross’d lovers [Romeo and Juliet] take their lives…/The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love…” (Prologue of Romeo and Juliet, 6-9) as they are forbidden to be together due to a long lasting and ongoing feud between the Montague and Capulet families. Their deaths are the results of many characters’ actions and fate, and there is not one distinctive person that can be blam¬ed for the young lovers’ deaths. Friar Lawrence is not to blame for these deaths as fate played a major role in their demise, he warned Romeo of his impulsive and unwise decision making, and his intentions were to abolish the ongoing feud between the two families. Further examination will prove that Friar Lawrence is innocent and his intensions were far from the passing of the two lovers.

When two people are meant to be together, no time is too long” (Anonymous). Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and West Side Story by Arthur Laurents show the pure evils of acting extremely hastily and how it can change the outlook on the future. Romeo and Juliet are two young lovers who were taught to hate one another and who suffer deeply because of the consequences of fate. Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were sure to be tragic as was hinted at early on throughout the play. Both families suffer with the loss of their children as well as other family members. Maria and Tony are split from one another because of extreme violence, hatred, and the differences between their New York City gangs. Each of them

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?

However, I do not believe in fate. I believe it goes against scripture. I believe God gave us free will. For example, when Adam and Eve were in the garden and they had the choice to eat from every tree except one but they chose to eat from the forbidden tree anyway. God has the power to make us follow him and do right but that is not what He wants. He wants us to choose Him because we want to in our hearts. Our actions will determine our ending. I believe that everyone’s fate will be either heaven or hell. Our conduct here on earth is what dictates us getting into heaven. God is the only one to judge and decide that for us. I do not think that wyrd is a ubiquitous principle that people live by today. I think we can see from our actions that we reap what we sew. I believe that the majority of people would agree that you can manipulate your fate exactly or close to how you want

The concept of fate has touched many lives throughout the centuries, and over time it, along with its counterpart free will, has [been?] transcended into the form of literature. Its influence is evident in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, particularly in how Pip, and his object of affection, Estella, are repeatedly subjected to preordained events. Furthermore, free will, or the ability to determine our own destiny, also holds sway over the characters in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, specifically Romeo and Juliet themselves. Free will has a greater influence on the characters in Romeo and Juliet than fate, while in Great Expectations, it proves to be the opposite, with fate having more heavily impacted Pip, and his associates.

Fate is the belief that something is destined to happen by a more godly figure and free will is the belief that it is not suppose to happen but

Fate can be thought as life being predetermined for the entirety of your days. From the early writings of Homer, specifically in the poem, The Iliad, there is a clear representation of whether it is free will or fate after all. Although we may never know whether there is a predetermined path or rather just free, it can only make one wonder. For most Greek Mythology, it is been evident that most of people’s decisions were not free will but rather fate itself. While people think they have free will, it may just be fate after all.

    Fate seems to defy humanity at every turn.  A man may have his life planned out to the last second, but then some random force intervenes and he dies the second after he has completed his life plan.  Some believe in fate, believing that our lives are predetermined from the moment we are born.  Other people believe that everything is random, the result of some god rolling the dice in a universal poker game.  Still other people believe that each and every person is in total control of his or her destiny, every step of the way.  Who is to say which viewpoint is false?  Every culture has a unique perception of the role of fate in our lives, and no group has the "right answer," simply a

Fate and free will are two contradictory theories, one either has control over their lives and the decisions that take place in them or they’re simply following out the plan of a divine being. Romeo and Juliet, a Shakespeare play, brings light to idea people have no grasp on the outcome of their lives despite any decisions they may make. From the very beginning the love affair of the Montague boy and Capulet girl reveals that the outcomes of one’s life is preset. The monologue blatantly out states, “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife” (Shakespeare 1). Before the audience is able to even witness Romeo and Juliet fall in love they are told that

Fate, an unseen force, gods or a god, however you’d like to say it fate determines our destiny. The evidence lies clear within the word of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As the pair come across obstacle it become clear a bigger power is determining things for them. When Tybalt goes out off his way to find and fight Romeo, Mercutio is the one who decides to step in. Tybalt had no problem with Mercutio other than his defense of Romeo in this situation. If he had not stepped in for Romeo, Tybalt would not have killed Mercutio, and Romeo would have remained in his decision to not fight Tybalt. But it wasn’t Romeo’s choice. Just like it wasn’t Juliet’s choice to be promised to Paris. It was he father, not her, that threatened to drag her to the

Most of Shakespeare's plays are conceived around a foundation in either tragedy or comedy, this polarity of themes allowing him to experiment with the full range of human emotions. Typically, an integral part of a Shakespearean tragedy is love, which is frustrated by a breakdown in order, or the character of the hero, due to some human limitation. The play Romeo and Juliet has all these typical characteristics. However, the resultant conclusion of events for the characters in this tragedy is adversely affected by the hands of fate, and not solely the product of human limitations. Fate in fact has a decisive role in the events of the play; it is a series of rapid coincidental events, which lead to the final tragedy.

Our freewill and own decisions have a greater effect on our destiny than a greater outside force. In the debate, our side of freewill argued over how Juliet made the choice to love Romeo despite the consequences that she could face if her parents discovered that they were in love and married. The opposing side argued that it wasn’t their choice that they fell in love, they believed that a “god” or other greater outside force. We proved this to be disproven because when Romeo and Juliet found out that they were from the feuding families, they could have made the choice to not see each other again, but instead, they made the choice to deny their families and get married. The opposing also said that god was leading Friar Laurence to marry Romeo

William Shakespeare once said, “Everyone has their fate, and the more people try to avoid it, the more trouble they get into.” In the story “Romeo and Juliet,” by William Shakespeare, set in the fair city of Verona, Italy, Romeo and Juliet must keep their love hidden from their two feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets. After Romeo is banished from the city, he and Juliet will sacrifice everything including their lives for each other. The tragic love story of these two star crossed lovers has influenced our society and culture with movies like Titanic and The Outsiders where fate has a clear influence in these classic stories of forbidden love. By looking at “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare delivers a message about life, suggesting that our lives our controlled by fate rather than free will.

All events in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ were destined to lead to their death. This concept is called fate - the development of events, outside any person’s control, predetermined by a higher power. Over the course of the play Shakespeare used astrological and cosmological theories to validate the universal tie that the lovers posses. He asserts their destiny by using the characters to unknowingly foretell the future. Throughout ‘Romeo and Juliet’ the timing of the play is being led by a higher power. All this evidence supports the role that fate plays in the demise of Romeo and Juliet.