A. Romeo makes two assumptions early on in his life, according to Marilyn Williamson in her literary criticism, “Romeo and Death.” These two assumptions are that Romeo’s fate is out of his hands, and he is predestined to meet an early demise.
B. Romeo makes assumptions that his fate is already set which consequently is what keeps him from changing his fate.
C. Romeo believes that “It is not fate but his own automatic response which makes Romeo feel that he cannot control his life” (Williamson 132).
D. Ironically it is Romeo that is the cause for his life’s outcome, not fate as he assumes. Romeo’s “automatic response” to the way he sees his life slowly despairing is that it is predetermined and that he may as well follow along because he cannot stop it. Romeo early on has the opportunity to stop the downward spiral that his life is in, but he only solidifies his fate when he buys poison and murders Paris. If Romeo had not felt “that he could not control his life,” he would have had more willpower to not kill Paris and move on with his life after the apparent death of Juliet.
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Romeo’s predetermined idea that his fate is out of his hands is what leads him to believe that his death would occur early on in his life. With the feud surrounding him, Romeo feels that he is destined to fall early because of the hazards the feud presents.
F. Romeos life is structured in such a way that his “actions have been determined by an early decision for death which he has made apparently as the result of the violence and guilt with which the feud has surrounded him” (Williamson
B. Romeo makes assumptions that his fate is already set which consequently is what keeps him from changing his fate.
C. Romeo believes that “It is not fate but his own automatic response which makes Romeo feel that he cannot control his life” (Williamson 132).
D. Ironically it is Romeo that is the cause for his life’s outcome, not fate as he assumes. Romeo’s “automatic response” to the way he sees his life slowly despairing is that it is predetermined and that he may as well follow along because he cannot stop it. Romeo early on has the opportunity to stop the downward spiral that his life is in, but he only solidifies his fate when he buys poison and murders Paris. If Romeo had not felt “that he could not control his life,” he would have had more willpower to not kill Paris and move on with his life after the apparent death of Juliet.
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Romeo’s predetermined idea that his fate is out of his hands is what leads him to believe that his death would occur early on in his life. With the feud surrounding him, Romeo feels that he is destined to fall early because of the hazards the feud presents.
F. Romeos life is structured in such a way that his “actions have been determined by an early decision for death which he has made apparently as the result of the violence and guilt with which the feud has surrounded him” (Williamson