Romeo and Juliet is a symbolic tragedy that shows numerous examples of how people can perish under their own free will. Romeo and Juliet, the kin of two rival families fall in love. Numerous problems arise with their unspoken love, and Romeo and Juliet struggle to solve these looming problems. Through their struggles, they continue making poor decisions and dig themselves into a hole that was impossible to escape. Eventually, they both end up dying due to their mistakes. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are victims of their own free will due to making risky, impulsive decisions fueled by young love and rage.
Romeo’s rash decisions, caused him to die from his mistakes. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is faced with countless choices that come to determine how his life plays out. After countless mistakes of choosing to do the wrong thing, Romeo meets his death. It all starts with Romeo saying “On, lusty gentlemen” (1.4.120) to Mercutio and Benvolio when he decides to go to Juliet’s party. Despite
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knowing that going to the party of an enemy is a bad idea, he makes the stupid mistake to go anyway. At the party, he not only meets Juliet, but is seen by Tybalt, which leads on to the next point. After Tybalt kills Mercutio (which is partly Romeo’s fault for choosing to hold back Mercutio), Romeo decides to take revenge on Tybalt. Romeo says to Tybalt “Either thou, or I, or both must go with him” (3.1.134) and Tybalt is the one that follows Mercutio into the afterlife. This leads to Romeo’s exile and in the end, his death. Romeo’s awful decision making, and constantly choosing to do the wrong thing, causes him to die. Impulses are sudden, strong urges or desires to act. Romeo and Juliet constantly acted on impulse, and never thought of the consequences of their actions. Most of the time, Juliet succumbed to her impulses due to them being the “easy way out”. For example, when Romeo was banished to Mantua, Friar Lawrence proposed a risky plan that depended on Juliet drinking poison. Although the poison wasn’t supposed to kill Juliet, this plan was certainly not the best plan to try and execute. Instead of thinking through the repercussions of taking and drinking the poison, Juliet says “Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!” (4.1.124). Juliet later drinks the vial and a series of events take place that lead in Romeo killing himself in front of Juliet. Seeing Romeo dead, makes Juliet heartbroken. She isn’t thinking straight and sees Romeo’s knife beside her. Juliet takes the knife and exclaims “There rust and let me die.” (5.3.183) then she stabs herself and dies. Juliet is, once again, succumbing to her impulses. This time though, these impulses cost Juliet her life. The whole story of Romeo and Juliet revolves around the relationship of Romeo and Juliet.
The young lovers rush to seal their love and hardly second guess this decision. When Romeo and Juliet meet, they know that they are from rival families and that their love will cause many problems to arise. But, instead of trying to figure out solutions, Juliet almost immediately says “Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (2.2.151) to Romeo. This is Juliet basically saying that she will marry Romeo even though they met only a few hours ago. Certainly they should have been more cautious about progressing in their relationship. Friar Lawrence even warns them “They stumble that run fast.” (2.3.94) and to slow down their relationship. But, the lovers have other plans and decide to get married which makes the chances of them ever having a legitimate, transparent relationship. They are not being forced to rush the relationship, but they do anyways because of free
will. In Romeo and Juliet, the lovers poor decision making, impulses, and inability to think through their actions cause them to be victims of their own free will. Romeo, being driven by rage, makes many decisions that turn out to have severe consequences. Impulsive decisions set Juliet up for certain failure. And the lovers inability to think through their actions cause both of their deaths. Romeo and Juliet set themselves up for death through their own free will. They constantly make poor decisions which leads a plethora of even more problems. Free will is a unique aspect to human life and can lead to fulfilling, amazing lives but it can also lead to tragedies as well. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy caused by their own free will.
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a story of two young lovers. These two hearts, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet belong to feuding families. The family feud causes them to keep their love a secret and therefore only Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, the Nurse and Friar Lawrence know of their love. Romeo and Juliet are able to look past the feud and let themselves fall in mad love with the other. They let themselves do almost anything for the other and at times it seems like too much to do, even for the one they love. Although fate and character traits play a key role in the play, ultimately Rome and Juliet’s personal choices lead to their downfall.Fate originates all of the conflicts in Romeo and Juliet, from when they met until they die.
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is a play about two lovers from different families that have an internal feud between them. It ends in both lovers, Romeo and Juliet, committing suicide as they could not openly live with each other. An important idea in this play is that of the impetuosity of youth and the rash decisions that young people may make. This idea is continuously brought up throughout the play and is explored through the concepts of overreacting and being blinded by anger, desperation in forbidden love and taking your life for love.
In the end, Romeo is responsible for five deaths, Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Juliet and himself. Juliet kills herself because she is under different circumstances and does what she feels is the only option left. Juliet is courageous and strong in seeking advice and not being overly sensitive. Romeo is not only weak and foolish, but is responsible for the tragic death of his own and Juliet’s. Work Cited Shakespeare, William.
The Death of Romeo and Juliet and Who is to Blame Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, in which a young boy and girl fall in love and commit suicide. They come from 2 different families which have a deadly feud against one another. Romeo goes to a masked ball at the Capulet's household where he falls in love with Juliet. He then proposes to her after the party in secret at Juliet's balcony. Romeo then arranges a secret weeding with Friar Lawrence and Juliet tells the Nurse.
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is a play about two lovers from different families that have an internal feud between them. It ends in both lovers, Romeo and Juliet, committing suicide as they could not openly live with each other. An important idea in this play is that of the impetuosity of youth and the rash decisions that young people may make. This idea is continuously brought up throughout the play and is explored through the concepts of overreacting and being blinded by anger, desperation in forbidden love and taking your life for love.
At the end of, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” the star crossed lovers kill themselves, for as the say throughout the acts, they both would rather die than be apart from each other. But have we really stopped and pointed the finger at the ones who are really responsible for the deaths of this famous couple? Of course, Romeo did willingly drink the poison and Juliet also stabbed herself, but who else could have influenced these irrational actions? Could it be the nurse and the friar for giving the two bad advice? Or would it be the families, for being filled with so much hate that they couldn’t see the love between Romeo and Juliet? Could the end result of these actions ultimately be the effect that the the star crossed lovers have caused
In William Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ the main characters are responsible for their own deaths because they refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions. Romeo acts irresponsibly throughout the play making inappropriate decisions. Juliet is persuaded out of her apprehensions by Romeo and is blinded by her unrealistic love for Romeo. However, the two lovers cannot be blamed entirely for their own deaths as other characters and the two lovers’ feuding families hold responsibility.
The story of Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. The two lovers go against their families and against their hate to be together but they don’t think about the consequences, which in the end are devastating.
Romeo decided, at the spur of the moment, that his only solution to deal with Juliet’s death was to kill himself. Romeo’s impulsiveness caused his preventable death, but he is not the only one who was impulsive and hasty in the play.
For example, after finding out that Romeo is a Montague, Juliet says, “My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me That I must love a loathed enemy” (I, v, 136-139). Juliet acted too fast and fell in love with someone that is an enemy of her family. When Juliet says, “Too early seen unknown, and known too late”, she means that she fell in love with Romeo without knowing who he was. The most logical conclusion we can draw from this is that their relationship was moving so quickly that Juliet had already kissed Romeo and fallen in love with him before even knowing his identity. Their choice of proceeding with their relationship so quickly is one of the reasons that led to Romeo and Juliet dying. Additionally, when Romeo and Juliet were talking to each other on the balcony by the orchard, Juliet asked, “What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?” (II, ii, 126), and Romeo responded, “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine” (II, ii, 127). The fact that after only kissing each other once, and talking for a brief amount of time, Romeo and Juliet want to get married, illustrates that their free will and decision making got them killed. Since their families are enemies, it was an obviously terrible choice for Romeo and Juliet to get married. The choice to get married this early in a relationship definitely played a big role in the tragic deaths of Romeo and
Romeo and Juliet is a play that is a very well known love story of two star-crossed lovers that come from feuding families. The play Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona, Italy and is a story of two desperate lovers that come together and fall in love with each other despite their feuding families. Throughout the story there are many events that lead to the tragedy that is Romeo and Juliet killing themselves. The true question is not how they died but rather who is to blame for their death. There are three things at fault for their death which are fate, the Capulet family, and Friar Lawrence who is most responsible for this tragedy.
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.
Reckless actions lead to untimely deaths. In Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, both protagonists fight for their hopeless love. Bloodshed and chaos appear inevitable in fair Verona; Romeo and Juliet come from enemy households, the Montegues and the Capulets, who have sworn to defeat one another. The young and handsome Romeo weeps over his unrequited love for Rosaline, until he lays his eyes on Juliet. Strong and independent, Juliet seeks to escape her family’s will to marry her off to Paris, a kinsman of the Prince. Fate ties these adolescents’ lives together binding them to witness the ill-fortunes of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Romeo and Juliet prove themselves woefully impulsive through their words and actions, which ultimately lead them along a series of unfortunate mishaps.
...t on the spot, and are too immature. Romeo and Juliet’s spring of blind love quickly deepens and causes them to face situation that they have never faced before. They do not know how to handle their bizarre complications, as the story takes a quick, unpredicted turn and turns into a nightmare for them. Romeo and Juliet are forced to make rash decisions one after the other and do not consider the possible solutions other than suicide, causing them to look up to suicide as their only hope. Their bizarre complications are caused by their blind, immature, and excessive love and their act of taking their own lives is also caused by immaturity, idolatry for each other, and the shortness of time. Romeo and Juliet suicide at the end of the story, due to the shortness of time and the extremity of their love; they believe that they have no other options, other than suicide.
The play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare tells the story of two very young lovers who die. It just appears that fate controlled the outcome of the story. But if you really study and interpret the story you will realize it is a series of a few simple coincidences, which made the outcome so tragic.