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
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Romeo and Juliet: Literary Essay Are our lives controlled by fate following one path‚ or prompted by freewill giving us the constant chance to change our outcome? Every waking moment we are faced with decisions that – whether big or small – make different types of impacts on our lives and others. Although it was Shakespeare who made it seem so the characters had no free will‚ within real life our fate isn’t written for us. Every decision is another opportunity to change the paths of our
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Romeo and Juliet Was it destined by fate? Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story of two lovers whose death was sealed by fate‚ and whose destiny was to be that they were to die in one another’s arms. With love‚ revenge‚ misfortune‚ secrecy and ancient grudges‚ all contributing to the unavoidable ending which had already been destined by fate; the ending which ceased what seemed like an eternal feud between two families. It was love at first sight and Romeo and Juliet where overtaken by the most
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of human history many people have felt helpless or at the mercy of higher forces. In ancient greek mythology‚ three goddesses known as the Moirai spun the thread of life and assigned every individual their fate that no man or god could interfere with. In ancient Egypt people believed the god Shai determined the length of each individual’s life who could protect or condemn a person in the afterlife. Most people in Shakespeare’s time also believed in a predetermined fate‚ and he explores the idea of
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climax of the entire play when Romeo exclaims “O‚ I am fortune’s fool!” Fortune/Fate is important because it touches on Romeo’s dream foresaw in Act One‚ Scene Four that what happened at the party would lead to his untimely death. Romeo killing Tybalt and being banished from the kingdom is a main contributing factor to him being killed Love as a destructive force is used in this scene as Romeo states that the reason that Mercutio dying is that his LOVE for Juliet has caused him to become effeminate
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Who is to Blame for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Sunjum Dhugga Friar Lawrence made a major mistake that he could have avoided himself. He trusted Juliet‚ an unstable teenage girl‚ with a fake-death poison. This rash decision was a very poor choice on the friar’s behalf. Here‚ the friar shows his irresponsibility by saying‚ "If... thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself... take thou this vial... no warmth‚ no breath shall testify thou livest” Trusting Friar John to send
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Fate Vs. Free Will Essay Have you ever thought about fate? Fate or the development of events throughout a person’s life which are out of their control is a factor in everyone’s life. But I believe this fate can be changed. No matter who you are destined/fated to be‚ I believe that fate is present in every person’s life‚ but that not all fate is final.I believe that through free will‚ you can change your fate and control your future. Many literary stories contain evidence of this‚ and here my thesis
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In William Shakespeare’s well-received play‚ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ two star-crossed lovers unite resulting in a fatal ending. Juliet‚ coming from the house of the Capulets‚ was only a young girl who was promised to a lord in two summers if she liked him back. This was a strict agreement with the family because it would have given them the power of the town because of his lordship. But when Juliet met Romeo‚ she became infatuated with him which triggered her immaturity to interfere with
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Both Romeo and Juliet are dead their deaths are the result of many different events and decisions. However who do you think is the most to blame for their deaths? The person to blame for the deaths of the characters Romeo and Juliet I think are ones who killed themselves I am going to explain my reasoning in the next four paragraphs on why I think that. I am going to start with Juliet‚ Juliet is the cause of her death because she was being she was being inpatient she should of waited till she knew
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In the play “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare I blame the reason for their tragedy on Friar Laurence. In the play the Friar married Romeo and Juliet to each other and didn’t inform the Capulet’s nor the Montague’s. The Friar also tried to help Juliet by giving her a sleeping potion so she wouldn’t have to marry Paris. He also failed to deliver the letter to Romeo saying that Romeo didn’t die‚ but she was in fact sleeping. “I could not send it here it is again nor get a messenger to
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