Life is very unpredictable in most cases and cannot always be shaped to our likings. We can never predict what is going to occur next in our lives. The line that separates choice and fait is seamlessly blurred and is hard to come in to our control. However, it is the choices we make that can direct us on different paths that reveal our uncertain future. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, the loving couple have made many erratic choices that have lead to the tragic death of both. The choice of Romeo attending the Capulet ball, the couple getting married, and Juliet going along with Friar Laurence’s hazardous plans were all impulsively made leading to their dreadful death.
To begin, Romeo had a very clear choice weather
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Once Juliet has found out that she was to be married to Paris the next day for sure she asked Friar Laurence to help her get out of her situation. Friar Laurence has a suggestion that she should take a potion that will leave her in a deep sleep for about 48 hours and will trick her family into thinking she was dead. She will then not have to get married to Paris and go live with Romeo instead once she had woken up. After Friar Laurence Explained the plan to her she hastily says, “Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!” (IV.i.124). Juliet is desperately asking for the potion without fully understanding the risks involved with taking it. This clearly shows that Juliet chose to agree with the plan. The problem with her choosing to go along with Friar Laurence’s plan was that there were too many risks she was taking. Some of those risks actually turned out to occur which was Romeo not receiving the message about Juliet’s plans. Romeo then mistakenly found out that Juliet was dead without being informed about her plan. Romeo then makes a rash decision to commit suicide while with Juliet still alive. In turn, Juliet then wakes up from her deep sleep only to find out about Romeo’s death and commits suicide along with him. Juliet’s choice of going along with Friar Laurence’s plans was not fully thought out but it was the choice that she made that led to both Romeo and Juliet’s
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, where a boy and a girl fall in love with each other during a party hosted by Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet. The two teenager decide to get marry, despite their family's hate for each other and only meeting each other a few hours ago. However, the Montagues (Romeo’s Parents) and the Capulets end their feud after they discover that their children killed themselves. Romeo and Juliet’s death was caused by Juliet’s parents, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence.
The tragic outcomes of Romeo and Juliet were determined by their free will because they didn’t go with their
When Juliet goes to the friar and threatens to kill herself if he doesn’t help her get out of marrying Paris he agrees to help her. He gives her a potion to temporarily stop her breathing so she appears dead. The friar says, “Take thou this /vial, being then in bed,/And this distilling liquor drink thou off;/When presently through/all thy veins shall run/A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse/Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.” (Act IV.i 95-99) “In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,/Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,” (Act IV.i 115-116) He is saying that Juliet doesn’t have to worry about Romeo freaking out about her death because he will tell Romeo about her fake death and they will be there to dig her up once she wakes up from her sleeping potion. Juliet is 100% on board with this plan because she really does not want to marry Paris. She is even willing to make her family think she is dead to be with
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, all the choices made by the star crossed lovers have consequences. The two lovers blame fate for their misfortune. They refuse to believe that fate does not determine the end result, only that they can do that. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is presented with a plethora of choices. The audience is introduced to Romeo as he sulks over his lover Rosaline.
Life is filled with difficult situations and tough choices to make. The question is, should we choose to make them ourselves? Some people feel it's best to do things alone, while others do not. For example, most of the characters in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare that are analyzed in the text, “What’s the Rush?: Young Brains Cause Doomed Love” by Lexi Tucker, do not consider other’s opinions at all. However, the opinions of people who love us positively affect our choices so it would be smart to consider them in most cases, but not in those that are very personal.
Love frequently entails several obstacles, and is not always as simplistic as it appears. This is a recurring theme in Romeo and Juliet, as the lovers go to great lengths for their relationship. They are not the only individuals involved, however, and many intervene in the situation. In effort to help their love, Friar Laurence creates a plan in hopes that the two will live happily together for the rest of their lives in Mantua. The Capulets, unaware of Juliet’s secret romance with Romeo Montague, attempt to arrange a marriage for her own benefit and believe that it will lead to her happiness. Both of these become obstacles in the way of Romeo and Juliet’s love and prove to be fatal, leading to the foreshadowed death of the couple. Although
Romeo & Juliet Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy, but it did not have to be. Many things could have been done to prevent their deaths. Many characters contributed to their deaths. The sole character that was responsible for their deaths is Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence is responsible for the deaths of the lovers because he was secretive with their relationship, he was unable communicate effectively, and he had a cowardly persona.
Romeo was gone, her parents, and the nurse. She had lost four people and the Friar is the only person for her to turn to. So Juliet of course, takes the Friars advice and does what he tells her to do. The Friar then proceeds tells Juliet obtuse scenarios for her to do. He comes to the judgment, while being impulsive, that the only solution is for Juliet to fake her death by drinking a sleeping potion. The Friar clearly stated, “A sleeping potion, which so took effect as I intended, for it wrought on her the form of death” (Crowther). With Juliet having no one to turn to, she takes the Friar’s advice and does what he says to do. These examples of unfavorable adult interference affected Juliet and made her do the things that she did. If the adults in her life would have thought things out more clearly and did what was right for Juliet and not themselves, things would have turned out differently for both Juliet and
We have now read both Pyramus and Thisbe, and Romeo and Juliet. The question we have yet to answer is what has a greater impact on what happened, destiny, or personal choice? We believe that personal choice affected the characters more because they chose to fall in love, Romeo and Juliet rushed into marriage, Pyramus and Thisbe left home on their own terms, and in both stories, the main characters decided to commit suicide. This is something that cannot be determined by the stars, your choices determine what happens, not some mystical prophecy. Though that is what we believe, it is also believed that destiny has a greater impact because they were doomed from the stars.
Most people believe that their life is suppose to end a certain way. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the main characters end up killing themselves because of forbidden love. And the history of their family's fighting preventing them from being together. Resulting in personal choice having a greater impact on the characters in the play rather than fath.
The choices Romeo and Juliet make are poor, and eventually resulted in their death. Getting married, killing Tybalt, and thinking with hastyness were all poor choices that lead to both of their deaths. Once in a while making bad choices doesn’t affect someone as much, but making then many times regularly does affect one’s life. This teaches people that we must think our actions through before committing them.
(HOOK) How can one grave mistake made by a character eventually accumulate and have an immense impact on the plot of a storyline? Depending on the piece of literature, certain characters can create setbacks through their actions and choices. (CI) Likewise, a pair of star-crossed lovers face challenging obstacles based on certain decisions made by characters. (GS1) The protagonist of the play, Romeo Montague, generates various dilemmas because of the severe choices he makes, especially his decision to kill Tybalt. (GS2) Meanwhile, Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend, is another character who causes impactful changes in the play with his overdramatic personality. (GS3) Additionally, the character Friar Laurence ultimately makes the most drastic choice
While trying to help Juliet, the Friar gives Juliet a sleeping potion and says, “Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber./ Take thou this vial, being in bed,/ And this distilling liquor drink thou off;” (IV.i.92-94). Friar Lawrence gives Juliet the sleeping potion in hopes it looks as though she is dead to get out of the upcoming marriage with County Paris. He tells Juliet to take the potion while in her room with no one watching and it will slow down her heart rate for forty-two hours. Days following, Juliet will awaken and Romeo will be there to come take her to run away. The Friar hopes for the best in the situation, but does not consider the drawbacks that could and will suddenly occur in his plan. He continuously tells Juliet what she wants to hear in this situation because she sees him as a fatherly figure and he sees her as his daughter. Before Juliet leaves the Friar, he tells her, “ ‘Thou hast the strength of will to sly thyself,/ Then is it likely thou wilt undertake/ A thing like death to chide away this shame,’ ” (Mackenzie 1). The Friar says that Juliet’s only option to get out of marrying the County Paris is to kill herself. His encouragement invokes the idea to Juliet to drink the potion. Trusting Juliet with a sleeping potion and the idea of killing herself showcases his rashness
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story about two young lovers who are forced to be estranged as a result of their feuding families. The play is about their struggle to contravene fate and create a future together. As such, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would try and emulate Shakespeare’s masterpiece. This had been done before in many films. Prominent among them were, Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 “Romeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.” Both films stay true to the themes of Shakespeare’s original play. However, the modernised Luhrmann film not only maintains the essence of Shakespeare’s writings, Luhrmann makes it relevant to a teenage audience. This is done through the renewal of props and costumes, the reconstruction of the prologue and the upgrading of the setting, whilst preserving the original Shakespearean language. Out of the two, it is Luhrmann who targets Romeo & Juliet to a younger audience to a much larger extent than Zeffirelli.
Romeo and Juliet made many choices out of their own free will, including an irreversible decision that ended in despair for all characters. “All are punished!”(5.3.305). In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, the actions of Romeo, the actions of Juliet, and the actions of others prove that free will is more paramount than fate in the plot of the play.