Romeo and Juliet- Victims of Fate or Choice
Romeo and Juliet: Victims of Fate or Choice?
Romeo and Juliet were not victims of fate: as many people believe, but instead were two lovers that made terrible choices. When I was a little kid; I often times heard the love between a boy and a girl referred to as Romeo and Juliet. I would always think to myself that I wanted to be just like them some day. However as I grew up and actually read the story and was old enough to interpret the events that actually occurred: I begin to realize that this story wasn’t quite the love story that I thought it was; in fact it was more of a tragedy. I also begin to realize that the couple that I once idolized; were in fact rather foolish. They made a series of bad choices that were impulsive and not well thought out. Although many people would argue that fate brought them to their demise; I disagree; as the definition of fate is the development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. I believe that many of the decisions that they made were within their control; and that those choices ultimately were the cause of their untimely deaths.
From the very beginning of the play Romeo is seen making very bad choices, he was heartbroken over Rosaline who did not love him back and he decided to attend a ball hosted by the feuding family the Capulet’s- despite the fact that he was not invited: just to see her. This was certainly a huge risk because if someone would have noticed him under his disguise it could have had huge consequences. At the ball he unexpectedly meets Juliet. He immediately falls in love with her. In this scene, it is clear that he acts rather impulsively. He attended the ball claiming to be in love with Rosaline; however by the time he leaves he is professing his love for Juliet. It is at this point that he questions whether or not he even loved Rosaline in the first place stating “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this
Romeo and Juliet were not victims of fate: as many people believe, but instead were two lovers that made terrible choices. When I was a little kid; I often times heard the love between a boy and a girl referred to as Romeo and Juliet. I would always think to myself that I wanted to be just like them some day. However as I grew up and actually read the story and was old enough to interpret the events that actually occurred: I begin to realize that this story wasn’t quite the love story that I thought it was; in fact it was more of a tragedy. I also begin to realize that the couple that I once idolized; were in fact rather foolish. They made a series of bad choices that were impulsive and not well thought out. Although many people would argue that fate brought them to their demise; I disagree; as the definition of fate is the development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. I believe that many of the decisions that they made were within their control; and that those choices ultimately were the cause of their untimely deaths.
From the very beginning of the play Romeo is seen making very bad choices, he was heartbroken over Rosaline who did not love him back and he decided to attend a ball hosted by the feuding family the Capulet’s- despite the fact that he was not invited: just to see her. This was certainly a huge risk because if someone would have noticed him under his disguise it could have had huge consequences. At the ball he unexpectedly meets Juliet. He immediately falls in love with her. In this scene, it is clear that he acts rather impulsively. He attended the ball claiming to be in love with Rosaline; however by the time he leaves he is professing his love for Juliet. It is at this point that he questions whether or not he even loved Rosaline in the first place stating “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this