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Personal Choices In Romeo And Juliet
There has been debate on whether Romeo and juliet's lives ended because fate or personal choices. In the play Romeo and Juliet both romeo and Juliet went through complicated situations. Romeo and some friends crashed a party they weren’t invited to. This is when Romeo and Juliet first met each other. Shortly later the two maid plans to go get married. Personal choices have greater impact on the characters than fate. Throughout the play Romeo made many personal choices that led his life to end as it did. The first choice he made was to go to a part he was not invited to. “ But he that hath the steerage of my course! Direct my sail”(pg.200). Romeo is persuaded to go to a party he didn’t want to go to because he knew he wasn’t invited. Romeo could have stayed home and not went to the party but he made the choice to follow is friends in. The main choice that ended Romeo’s life was when he bought a potion to kill himself. “Come, cordial and not poison, go with me to juliet’s gravel; for there must i use thee”. Romeo is told Juliet is dead and decides to by a poison to kill himself . This choice is what ended Romeo’s life, fate had no such say in his life ending.
Juliet made the same decisions as Romeo did. She did
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Friar laurence also made immature choices as well. He agreed to marry the two and also made a plan that in the end killed them. “ Take thou this vial, being then in bed and this distilled liquor drink thou off” (pg. 255). Here the friar tells Juliet to drink a poison that won’t kill her but make her sleep for two days. He does this so she can fake her death and be with Romeo. The Friar also made the decision to marry Romeo and Juliet in the beginning of the play. “ I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households rancer to pure love” (pg. 217). This is where things started going bad for the two. The friar could have denied Romeo when he asked for him to marry

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