“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
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.
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 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.
When the play begins, Romeo chooses to crash the ball. Even before the Capulet ball, Romeo predicts his “untimely death"(1.4,117). Fate did not make him go to the Capulet ball, he decided to go on his own, even though his “mind misgives some consequences”(1.4, 114). Another example of how free will comes to play is when Romeo finds out later on that Juliet his true love is his enemy. A "fear"(1.5.120), is placed in him. Nonetheless, he still continues to pursue the relationship even though he knows it will only end in trouble.
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.
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)
No force of fate could have compelled him to do such an act. These actions of other characters in the play such as the death of Mercutio, the apothecary selling Romeo an illegal poison, and the Friar admitting that the death of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris are his fault are the final examples of how free will is more dominant than fate in the outcome of the play. 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.
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 Romeo and Juliet, personal choice affected them a lot because when they would do something, they would never think about the consequences. For instance, in the play Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence asking for anything, just not to get married to Paris. Therefore Friar had given her a potion to drink so she would not be able to go to Paris and make it seem like she had died. So she would be able to be with Romeo. Since she had drunk the potion that Friar had given her, everyone had thought that she had died, including Romeo.
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.
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
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.
This result of their impulsiveness is not the result of free will but rather Fate, who blah blah blah. Fate who commenced the love between Romeo and Juliet also determined their death from the beginning, using love against Romeo, rather than their death being of choice. their actions were in haste but no matter what they did, their fate was still death When Romeo hears the news of Juliet’s supposed death from Balthazar, he expresses, “Then I defy you, stars!” (5.1.24).