What Are The Choices In Romeo And Juliet

Choice Of Fate When people say the phrase “decisions, decisions” they know that they are going to decide on something they just don’t know what it is yet. However, picture this, someone at any sort of store or restaurant let the next person go before them. After the other person picks they were supposedly the 100 customer and get what they wanted for free, think about how the person who let them in front felt and how it could have been them. Was it was fate or personal choice in this situation. But, what if it was both, in the story Romeo and Juliet this could be the case. Many stories have fate and personal choice involved in the story to show how much the story progresses just by the decisions and the eventual fate of a character. In the story Romeo and Juliet many of the choices that the characters made affected the way the story continued the fate of the story’s plot. For example if Romeo didn’t go to the Capulet party then he wouldn’t have met Juliet and the whole thing really wouldn’t have happened and they more than likely wouldn’t have died. If Romeo didn't kill Tybalt he wouldn’t have gotten banished, “Alive in
triumph and Mercutio slain! Fire-eyed fury be my conduct!”(Shakespeare 232). All of those factors ended making them mess up the whole original plan and they had to try to fix it before it was too late. Juliet didn’t help much by wanting to kill herself after Romeo gets banished that led Friar Laurence to call for desperate measures.
So he then gives her the potion as a last resort to make everything work out as planned “Thou hast the strength of will to kill thyself, then it is likely that thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame” (Shakespeare 255). The potion was made to put Juliet in a death-like slumber and it served its purpose well but she ended up waking a few seconds to a second after Romeo dies from drinking a potion after seeing her “dead” in front of him. So she decides “well time to stab myself” and finally gets the chance to kill herself and does. In the end both of the lovers end their lives to end the fate of them getting separated once more and so once more leaving personal choice as the guide to
fate. So concluding after all of that the story, including character dialogue, duly notes that fate in fact played a role. What they don’t really say a’tall is that personal choice changed the fate of the two star-crossed lovers to a twisted end. Their choices led them on the path of their fate but with bumps in the road they went a different direction and stopped the journey but it was too late to go back. So as the metaphorical smoke cleared and the end was in sight both of the lovers ended their lives to be together. The Friar was correct about the families ending their feud but for what? The death of the Capulet's and Montague's only children to end the feud. So after everything if they had just made certain and better decisions than the fate of both Romeo and Juliet’s fate more than likely would have ended for the better than worse.