“Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.” - Charles Spurgeon. Charles Spurgeon was a Christian preacher who understood choice. He knew that many people make awful choices, which is why he said free will carried many souls to hell. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, many people let their hate, and anger get the best of them, which lead to them making crummy choices. This ultimately leads to the death of Romeo and Juliet. If people in the play did not make choices out of anger and haste, then Romeo and Juliet would be alive at the end. Free will is most responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths because it allows people to make bad choices through their anger and hate, leading to consequences. Shakespeare demonstrates this through his use of foil.
Hate leads to making unacceptable choices because people do not think about what they are doing. Romeo attends the Capulet's party, where he first sees Juliet. While he was there Tybalt spots him, This moment leads to one of Shakespeare's use of a foil. The foil shows the contrast between Romeo and Tybalt. The clear contrast between the two is shown when they say:
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!-
For I ne’er saw true beauty till
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The word “will” shows it is Capulet's choice to respect Romeo and let him be at the party. The word ‘patient’ connotes peace because when people are patient, they think about the possibilities of their actions and realize getting angry would not help the situation. This connects back to the topic sentence because Capulet knew that engaging with Romeo is a terrible idea and requested Tybalt to not make a choice with his anger. This helped the situation because no one ruined the party clearly showing that people must stop others from making lousy decisions through their
The leading force, in my opinion, that led to Romeo and Juliet's death is the conflict between the two fathers, Capulet and Montague. It's because of this conflict that Romeo and Juliet feel they must hide their love, which, in the end, is the cause of their deaths. Because of this conflict, confrontations occurred and insults were thrown. Hatred is bred which is evident when Tybalt, who is Lady Capulet's nephew, joins the fight against the Montague family. Tybalt hates Romeo and doesn't hesitate to let it be known.
Inevitable Death in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet In Romeo and Juliet it is clear that fate plays a large part. There are many references in the play that refer to bad luck or misfortune, but it is argued that the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are equally the fault of human error. The characters each have weaknesses that could be to blame like anger, ambition or ill judgement. Also some characters had premonitions or bad feelings that something bad would happen but they never did anything to stop this.
The human condition follows the path of fate. Everyone makes choices out of their own free will which affects their life at that time, but will ultimately lead to their pre- determined fate. People inflict their own wounds during their life by the choices that they make. This applies in Romeo and Juliet and plays a major role in Romeo and Juliet’s lives. "A pair of star-crossed lovers" (I, i, 6)
In the end some people might blame the friar for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, but the friar was some results of personal choice, because of “faith” they believed they were meant and nothing could stop them from being together in the end, choosing to do the things the friar said that would help the problem of Romeo’s exile. But it all was a matter of personal choice that lead up to these events, and this story is a very good example
Free will is the power to choose your own actions without the constraint of fate, and the ability to choose your own destiny. Free will is what you choose to do. Romeo and juliet shows some examples of free will. Also there are some examples in the odyssey. There are also some examples of free will in everyday life.
Fate or Free Will? Everyone regrets bad decisions made in the past. People should not dwell on their past past mistakes but instead learn from them instead. For the Capulets and the Montagues in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare their actions and the actions of those around them leads to a great number of deaths of relatives and only children.
As the former wrestler and business executive, Paul Levesque once said, “Your destiny is what you make. It’s the choices that you make. And for every choice, there’s a consequence.” Levesque’s words emphasize how it's our decisions that determine our fate; we create our own future by our own freewill. We can change our future by the choices we make every single day, and forge our own destiny.
In the tale of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, two star crossed lovers take a leap into love, leading to them resting by each other's’ sides in a forever sleep. The story takes place in the town of Verona, which two rival families share. Occasionally, a brawl breaks out in the town between the families, Montagues and Capulets, which end up with a severe punishment from the prince, Prince Escalus. The story takes the reader on an adventure through the lives of Montague Romeo and Capulet Juliet as they struggle to find time to love each other. However, their love leads to their deaths, which are especially brought by fate.
People like to believe that they can control their fate, however, in the end, it’s fate that controls them. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, fate brings Romeo and Juliet together at a party and causes them to fall in love, eventually leading to their eventual demise. Perhaps Romeo and Juliet thought they were choosing their own fate by defying their families, but in the end that was what fate wanted them to do. Despite their best efforts, Romeo and Juliet couldn’t avoid the decisions made by everyone that prevented them from being together peacefully.
The inevitability of fate in act one starts when the two families are found fighting and Prince is warning that the next time they fight they would be killed. Romeo likes Rosaline, but she doesn’t like him, and because he couldn’t get over it, he became depressed, and mopes about all day. Another form shown in act two is Romeo’s dream about his death in the future, and Mercutio’s statement of Queen Mab and that dreams lie. Afterwards some of the Montagues bring Romeo to the Capulet party, though he is reluctant because there might be a fight there.
One of the things that every human has a right to is their choices and actions. Things that happen to people are a direct result of their actions and God, however we as humans make our own destinies. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, two lovers named Romeo and Juliet meet their end after a tragic double suicide. When reading this story, many attribute their deaths to fate, claiming that they are “star-cross’d lovers.” However, throughout the tragedy, Romeo and Juliet very clearly seal their own deaths due to their own impulsive actions and choices.
In literary works, authors influence and propel their writing by either indicating a character’s belief in fate as the controlling force in their life or the character’s own free will as the reason for the events that occur to them. Although a character’s decision to do something is their freewill, it can be argued that their fate leads the character into making the choices that are laid out for them. Authors often highlight the literary element of foreshadowing to suggest that the force of fate is involved and is in control of the events a character endures. In terms of love, fate is often the influence for love at first sight, but it also propels the love founded at first sight to end because the lack of experience in loving someone can
Free will ultimately brought about the death of Romeo and Juliet. Obviously Juliet and Romeo’s ending was predetermined for them because it is after all a play. Which in some ways invalidates the debate of whether or not they had free will. However with a willing suspension of reality we can analyze the events that take place had this been a real situation. The events leading up to Romeo and Juliet’s untimely death are at best circumstantial, and each one is individually preventable. Some of the events could be considered fate on the premise of a chain reaction, however for my purposes I will say that had they not made the choice that had started the chain reaction it would not have happened. Therefore, it is still based upon free will.
Shakespeare’s world-renowned story, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, is a story of love, hate, trials, tribulations, and fate. Focusing on the theme of fate brings to center stage the story of Romeo and Juliet’s first meeting, their short time together, as well as their endings. While not all love story’s end in a unified death between lovers, many are based of fate and destiny, where the couple is meant for each other. Specifically, the poem Red String of Fate and the article on the story of Abigale and Dwayne Shoppa.
Therefore, Romeo in an attempt to defy his predetermined destiny, ironically secures his fate to die alongside Juliet. Oblivious to the plan Friar Laurence put into place for the both of them to be together, Romeo continues to follow his passion for love and to be near Juliet, even as he kills himself. Furthermore, free will plays no part in the tragedy because Fate’s goal is completed in the