Essay On Free Will In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Every love has it’s downfalls, as every gorgeous crimson rose has it’s thorns. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet wanted to be eternally betrothed, but the two families of the couple hated each other with a passion, so Romeo and Juliet made a plan to get together and spend their life together forever, but in the end, the duo died due to complications in the plan. In Romeo and Juliet, free will plays the most significant role in the story’s outcome due to the brawls, good intentions, and secrets. The fighting between the characters ultimately lead to Romeo and Juliet’s death. Tybalt, the cousin of Juliet, threatened Romeo, warning him to stay away from the Capulet’s, when he didn’t, Tybalt challenged him, but Mercutio proudly volunteered as tribute, only to end up dead in the end. When Tybalt fled, Romeo pledged that he would kill …show more content…
The Nurse was a messenger for Romeo and Juliet, she told no one about their secret love, but she often made things more dramatic and made up lies, like saying Romeo was dead when he was only banished from the city. Friar Lawrence also kept secrets which led to him giving Juliet the potion and the failed plan. Romeo also kept secrets, and the biggest one of all led to him drinking his lethal potion and killing himself. The nurse keeping secrets lead to misunderstandings and disastrous endings. Romeo keeping secrets also led to their death, for he killed himself and then Juliet did. The elements of the fights, good intentions, and secrets caused the ultimate death of Romeo and Juliet due to mere free will. If Romeo and Juliet would have never met, they would not have died, also if the characters hadn’t had made good intentions about Romeo and Juliet, their plan probably wouldn’t have failed, lastly the secrets were a major part for the characters keeping secrets ended up mixing up things and making a bigger deal, ending to lethal poison and a dagger in the