Romeo And Juliet Choices Analysis

The two iconic lovers, Romeo and Juliet, by choice they both decide to remain together forever. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the two lovers have the ability to change what the prologue says by changing their actions which would ultimately lead to their deaths. This is shown in the beginning, middle, and end of the play. To begin, one can witness choice affecting the play in the beginning that leads to their demise. Choice can be seen when Romeo decides to go to the Capulet party with the rest of the guys Romeo says, “...But he that hath the steerage of my course direct my suit./ On, lusty gentlemen” (1.4.112-113). This shows, that Romeo has a bad feeling about going to the party but chooses to go anyways. Another choice

Juliet says, “...Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee” (4.3.58). This shows that Juliet does not know if Romeo found out the truth that truth being that even though she is dead to the world she is actually still alive, and without knowing if Romeo knew or not she drinks the potion. Romeo says, “...Here, here will I remain with worms that are thy chambermaids./O here will I set up my everlasting rest and shake that yoke of inauspicious stars from the world-wearied flesh…” (5.3.108-112). Romeo enters the tomb to see Juliet dead or at least it looks as if she is so he decides to take his own life but in reality he could have done so many other things or he could have at least waited a few more minutes until Juliet had awaken seeing that he kills himself moments before she wakes up. Juliet states, “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger./This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die”(5.3.169-170). This shows that Juliet chose to drink the potion and in turn she wakes up to find Romeo dead so in turn her solution is to take her own life rather than seeing how things play out. Shakespearean critic Edward Dowden states, “The moment that Romeo receives the false tidings of Juliet's death, is the moment of his assuming full manhood. Now, for the first time, he is completely delivered from the life of dream, completely adult, and able to act with an initiative in his own will, and with manly determination” (Dowden 57). This shows that Romeo is now a man and this means that he is now able to make responsible choices and act as his own person, that means that in him taking his life he chose to do so and not because he was a kid and did not know better because as shown he is now a man and can make his own decisions. The two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, have the ability to choose their actions leading up to their deaths in the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.