Romeo And Juliet Essay

Shakespeare’s work is the most recited piece of literature other than the bible. He introduced many of the common words we use today. The play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, was a tragic love story. Taking place in Verona, Italy during the 1500’s, two people from families who were great enemies, quickly fall in love. Romeo and Juliet, the two people, face many obstacles that break their secret relationship and lead them to kill themselves. Fate is when something you cannot control, and free will is when you make the decision. Fate caused their deaths because Romeo and others were aware that fate was controlling them, time was not in their favor, and they had no control over the family feud. Romeo was aware that something had a greater force on him, and that something was written in the stars, which was fate. Romeo continued to say throughout the play that fate is …show more content…
The two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, were in a raging feud that no one could control. Romeo and Juliet didn’t start the feud because it had brewed over several decades. The prologue states, “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, / where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (Shakespeare 1.0.1). This quote tells us that the feud has been going on for a very long time, well before Romeo and Juliet were born. This quote strongly supports that fate was the cause of their death because if there were no feud, there would be no secret relationship, therefore no deaths. Others might think free will caused their death because they chose to get married and to end their life in the play. However they didn’t have to end there life if there was no feud, and time was in their favor. Fate overrules free will for the reason that none of this would have happened if everything went as planned, but fate wanted to take them in a different path. Fate plays a much bigger part in the story than