Romeo and Juliet: A Death Duo by Fate or by Choice? People often may think to themselves; am I really the one in control of my life? Do the decisions I make now really matter if in the end I am ultimately fated to one doom, or fortune? In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare two households in beautiful Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, were entangled in a feud thought never to end. Their children, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, fleetingly fell in love with each other. Their desire for one another being forbidden led to them keeping their relationship a secret, and later taking their lives. The roles of personal choice and fate in the play equally impact the characters, causing a deed of fate to trigger a series of ultimately
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The servant, not knowing how to read, needed the guest list to be verbally translated to him. Out of every stranger present, Romeo happened to be the individual standing nearest to him. For this reason the servant happened to ask Romeo “I pray, can you read” (Shakespeare 192), and Romeo freely obliges. This is an act of fate because out of everyone near him, the servant happens to ask Romeo to translate the letter. When Romeo is reading aloud the names to the servant, he happens to see Rosaline, his crush's name on the list. Because of this, he makes the personal choice to attend the Capulet party uninvited, stating to his cousin Benvolio “I’ll go along…” (Shakespeare 193). This decision was personal choice because Romeo had decided for himself whether to go along with his cousin Benvolio to the party hosted by the Capulets, his family's mortal enemy. Both fate and personal choice equally impact the characters in the play because fate, here being the servant disclosing the guest list to Romeo, caused one major task in the plot to take place, which would be Romeo deciding to crash the Capulet
The servant, not knowing how to read, needed the guest list to be verbally translated to him. Out of every stranger present, Romeo happened to be the individual standing nearest to him. For this reason the servant happened to ask Romeo “I pray, can you read” (Shakespeare 192), and Romeo freely obliges. This is an act of fate because out of everyone near him, the servant happens to ask Romeo to translate the letter. When Romeo is reading aloud the names to the servant, he happens to see Rosaline, his crush's name on the list. Because of this, he makes the personal choice to attend the Capulet party uninvited, stating to his cousin Benvolio “I’ll go along…” (Shakespeare 193). This decision was personal choice because Romeo had decided for himself whether to go along with his cousin Benvolio to the party hosted by the Capulets, his family's mortal enemy. Both fate and personal choice equally impact the characters in the play because fate, here being the servant disclosing the guest list to Romeo, caused one major task in the plot to take place, which would be Romeo deciding to crash the Capulet