My project is a game board titled “The Test of Fate.” It is modeled after the game “Sorry!” in same aspects, but it also has a bit of a twist. When playing this game, players divide into two teams, the Montagues and the Capulets: “Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where we lay our scene), from ancient grudge break to new mutiny,” (Prologue.1-3.7).…
“I still will stay with thee/ And never from this palace of dim night/ Depart again. Here, here will I remain/ With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here/ Will I set up my everlasting rest/ And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars/ From this world-wearied flesh” (5.3.106-112)! Romeo is determined to one-up fate.…
When you hear the word “responsibility” what comes to your head? When thinking about responsibility one may imagine someone with an obligation and a course of action to get that duty done. A responsible person is someone you can always count on when in need of truth or guidance even at the darkest of times. In the tragic play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the readers experience a forbidden love between two rivaling families, the Capulets, and the Montagues. Romeo and Juliet are star crossed lovers who will do anything for each other, even if it means dying.…
Free will can commence true love or terminate it because an individual can choose to fall in love with another or fall out of love with another. Romeo and Juliet used their free will to marry each other. This is an example of free will initiating true love. The story says, “Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow.” (Shakespeare 39)…
Some individuals may not trust that destiny is something that honestly exists on the planet. This bit of the populace questions that there is anything that is really intended to be or expected to happen. They assume that whatever happens in their lives comes as a consequence of the choices that they make with their own through and through freedom. Others trust that whatever happens over the span of their lives is unavoidable and and laid out before them like a guide to life. William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet has destiny as a prevalent theme, making the characters vivified.…
Juliet had the decision to tell her parents about Romeo and risk being disowned, leaving her to go after Romeo or to marry Paris and then take the potion to make herself dead. She knew that the letter had not yet been delivered to Romeo and it would be possible for him to hear of her “death” before getting the letter. By taking the potion a day ahead of planned Juliet made the decision. * The trouble that the lovers experience in the short time…
B Block In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet are victims of free will because their decisions lead to their ultimate death. Several times throughout the play either Romeo or Juliet’s decisions leads them farther and farther apart. Firstly, after Capulet’s ball, Tybalt fights Murcutio and Romeo decides to intervene in the fight. This leads to Tybalt stabbing Murcutio and Romeo taking revenge by killing Tybalt. After this incident, the Prince declares “Let Romeo hence in haste, / Else when he is found, that hour is his last” (3.1.204-205).…
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.…
Free Will Leading to Romeo and Juliet’s Death Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest love tragedies ever written. The story unfortunately has a fatal ending. I believe that free will is the cause of both Romeo and Juliet's death. I also believe that they had died over the love they had for each other, strong enough that their lives could end so suddenly if something horrible had come between them, and that was exactly how it happened. This tragedy occurred within five days of the two meeting, they experienced love at first sight, got married and quickly were dead.…
Many people argue that our lives are predetermined and others that believe the choices you make will have an impact on your future. In the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers get married and their marriage leads to deadly consequences. Their families are feuding and because they are feuding they can not be seen together. Because their parents would not allow it, they chose to marry each other secretly. Free will is to blame for the untimely deaths of Romeo and Juliet because of the choice they made to get married, Romeo’s decision to go to the masked ball, and choosing to kill themselves.…
For many people, they will go to any lengths for the people they love. However, a person’s sense of judgement begins to warp when they can only focus on one thing or one person. The ability to make good decisions is lost, and things like pressure and guilt can coerce a person into doing almost anything. Poorly made decisions can lead to irreversible negative consequences, but many people aren’t able to anticipate those kinds of results because they’re too caught up with the issues they have to confront in the present. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, he uses poetic language to suggest that people will make impulsive and poor decisions in the heat of the moment and that those decisions can lead to preventable consequences with detrimental…
To start with the obvious, Romeo’s undying love for Juliet, Romeo decides drinks poison to kill himself because he thought that Juliet died, which also caused Juliet to kill herself. From act 5, Romeo says, “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” (5.3.120). Romeo loves Juliet so much that he died seeing her body in the tomb. If Romeo decided to make a reasonable decision by not killing himself.…
Fate and Free Will in Romeo and Juliet By Dougal Perrers William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a classic tragedy about two young lovers born into feuding families. The conflict of fate and free will is a recurring theme throughout the text, and Shakespeare frequently uses literary techniques to shape the direction of the story. Romeo and Juliet are ultimately responsible for their own end, but their deaths were undeniably influenced by the philosophies of their time. Shakespeare relies heavily on the Elizabethan philosophy of the ‘Chain of Being’ to explain the power of fate over free will. This is not to say Romeo and Juliet were only victims of fate, because they made choices that directly led to their deaths.…
but it is because of their willingness to give him their trust that put him in that position. Their decision to commit to one and other because of their new found love in such a short period of time is also a result of their youth. All of these endeavors Romeo and Juliet go through are all due to their adolescence and especially their death. Romeo and Juliet’s unplanned proposal to commit to one another is due to their youth. When they fall in love and decide to get married in a period of 24 hours is not a wise decision but yet understandable due to their age, they are developing teens.…
Romeo and Juliet were led to believe something, but fate chose otherwise. Their profound love for each other was just their misfortune that led to their tragedy. Romeo and Juliet were just victims of fate from incidents throughout the book involving Tybalt's belligerent nature and Friar Lawrence not being able to inform Romeo about a proposed course of action. When Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, his audience consisted of the Elizabethans. These people during that time were taught that every incident, action, or event which occurred was…