Free Will In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Even though many say Romeo and Juliet died because of their own free will, the fact that they are “star crossed lovers” goes to show that fate caused their demise. More times than not Romeo and Juliet had no control over what was a factor in their deaths. Timing was a huge role in Romeo and Juliet's end. The sonnet at the beginning of the play was also a foreshadowing of their deaths. These two reasons are not nearly all of them either. The fact romeo and juliet met was another big reason for them dying. As you can see romeo states:

“A torch for me! Let wantons light of heart
Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels;
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase,
I’ll be a candleholder and look on,”
(1.4.35-38)
Which implies that he was not trying to get any girls that night.but romeo wasnt the only one because juliet said something about the same.juliet clearly says:

“It is an honor that I dream not of,”
(1.3.58)
When she is asked about getting married. but, fate decided otherwise that fateful nught when it made them meet.my hockey team is metaphorically like romeo and juliet because we all love each other like family but we just have not been winning because of some unlucky plays just like how romeo and …show more content…
if romeo did not end up kiling himself then romeo and juliet would have lived happily ever after.another scenario could have been thst romeo would be given a little more time, instead of drinking the poisin, until juliet had woken, but only if the friar had came into the tomb earlier. that could have been a posibility because in lines 120-122 of scene 3 in act 5 romeo dies right before the friar enters juliets chamber. a great example of this horrid timing is in the 1996 version of romeo and juliet because juliet wakes up right as romeo swallows the poison that would eventually kill