Romeo And Juliet Free Will Quotes

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

themselves? In this essay, I will discuss who really is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
First of all, could the nurse and the friar be to blame for the famed deaths of Romeo and Juliet? The nurse and the friar are the most promnite parent like being in the lives of both Romeo and Juliet. For example, on page 748, the nurse is the only one that knows Juliet’s age! And on page 774, Romeo tells the fiar first about his love for juliet, because Romeo trust him more than he did his own parents. In the play, the friar and the nurse and the friar both encouraged Romeo and Juliet to get married, but the both also agreed to keep the marriage a secret from their families. For example, the friar agrees to help Romeo marry Juliet on page 776, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households' rancor to pure love.” Could their agreement to help keep the marriage a secret be the cause that lead to the two lover’s deaths? If you think about it, if the nurse and the friar told them to wait to get married or to tell their parents about their love for one another, then could the death of Romeo and Juliet been avoided? Besides the nurse and the friars involvement in Romeo and Juliet’s lives, could another reason for the star crossed lovers’ deaths be to the feud between their families?
Second of all, could the deaths of Romeo and Juliet be blamed on the families and their hate for one another? Throughout the book, we are meet with the problem of the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues getting in the way of Romeo and Juliet’s true love. Even the Chorus tells us on page 735 that, besides the lovers deaths, nothing could stop the feud between their parents strife. Because of the deadly feud between the two families, Romeo and Juliet were lead to keep their forbidden love a secret from their parents. Because of that secrecy, Juliet’s parents tried to get her married to Paris, because the didn’t known that she was already married to Romeo. Also, could the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s irrational action be blamed upon their parent's lack of involvement in their lives? For example, on page 748, Lady Capulet didn’t even known when Juliet’s birthday was! Because of the parent’s lack of involvement in Romeo and Juliet’s lives, it lead to the father not caring about Juliet’s feeling, but instead only cared for his family lineage. For as Lord Capulet said on page 813, “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me.” Though the families feud did complicate Romeo and Juliet’s relationship, could the lovers himself ultimately be the ones to blame for their deaths?
Could the end result of Romeo and Juliet’s actions ultimately be nothing but the effect of what the star crossed lovers have caused themselves?

Since we can ultimately make decisions to what we desire, for we all have free will, could Romeo and Juliet thus have done anything different to avoid their death-marked love? Ever since Romeo saw Juliet on page 757, he tells us about how he finds her irresistible and of her beauty that is, “too rich for use, for earth to dear!” And we see on the next page that their love was destined to be. But afterwards, they are in a rush to marry each other, and at the end of day two, the friar and the nurse help the star crossed lovers do exactly that. What if, instead of keeping the marriage a secret, if Romeo and Juliet told their parents about their marriage? If they did this, would the two lords have disregarded their hate for one another’s families, thus accomplishing what the friar hoped that Romeo and Juliet’s marriage would do? And even though Romeo and Juliet kept their marriage a secret from their families, they could have avoided their suicidal actions by avoiding the poisons that were offered to Juliet on pages 821-822 and to Romeo on pages 837-838. For like I said before, the both of them ultimately had the free will to choose to drink the poisons that were given to them. If Juliet didn’t take the sleeping drugs, then Romeo would have saw her to be well and would have stayed in Mantua. If this did happen, then would the nurse and or the friar have helped her to escape from Verona, and Lord Capulet’s plan to have Juliet marry Paris? So, in the end, Romeo and Juliet are the only ones we can wholly place the blame upon for their inevitable

deaths.
In conclusion, the inevitable deaths of Romeo and Juliet could have been blamed on many people. If Juliet’s nurse and Friar Lawrence didn’t give the famous couple the bad advice that the did, the could have avoided their deaths. For they were they were the two biggest parental figures in Romeo and Juliet’s live. Or, we could blame the Montague and Capulet Families for Romeo and Juliet’s death-marked love. For if the families weren't filled with such raging hate for one another, then Romeo and Juliet could have freely gotten married, with no secrecy between them and their parents. But, in the end, we can only blame the star crossed lovers for their deaths. Because, in the end, Romeo and Juliet could have chosen to make wiser decisions and have avoided the use of the poisons that only made their problems worse. And that is who I think is responsible for the famous deaths of our beloved Romeo and Juliet.