Romeo And Juliet Free Will Quotes

At the end of, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” the star crossed lovers kill themselves, for as the say throughout the acts, they both would rather die than be apart from each other. But have we really stopped and pointed the finger at the ones who are really responsible for the deaths of this famous couple? Of course, Romeo did willingly drink the poison and Juliet also stabbed herself, but who else could have influenced these irrational actions? Could it be the nurse and the friar for giving the two bad advice? Or would it be the families, for being filled with so much hate that they couldn’t see the love between Romeo and Juliet? Could the end result of these actions ultimately be the effect that the the star crossed lovers have caused

Since we can ultimately make decisions to what we desire, for we all have free will, could Romeo and Juliet thus have done anything different to avoid their death-marked love? Ever since Romeo saw Juliet on page 757, he tells us about how he finds her irresistible and of her beauty that is, “too rich for use, for earth to dear!” And we see on the next page that their love was destined to be. But afterwards, they are in a rush to marry each other, and at the end of day two, the friar and the nurse help the star crossed lovers do exactly that. What if, instead of keeping the marriage a secret, if Romeo and Juliet told their parents about their marriage? If they did this, would the two lords have disregarded their hate for one another’s families, thus accomplishing what the friar hoped that Romeo and Juliet’s marriage would do? And even though Romeo and Juliet kept their marriage a secret from their families, they could have avoided their suicidal actions by avoiding the poisons that were offered to Juliet on pages 821-822 and to Romeo on pages 837-838. For like I said before, the both of them ultimately had the free will to choose to drink the poisons that were given to them. If Juliet didn’t take the sleeping drugs, then Romeo would have saw her to be well and would have stayed in Mantua. If this did happen, then would the nurse and or the friar have helped her to escape from Verona, and Lord Capulet’s plan to have Juliet marry Paris? So, in the end, Romeo and Juliet are the only ones we can wholly place the blame upon for their inevitable