This quote describes the thoughts going through Romeo's head with an uncanny similarness. ... In "Romeo and Juliet," William Shakespeare proposes that love and desire control much of human lives. ... Romeo's rapidly degrading judgement is a result of his love for Juliet and Rosaline. Juliet's willingness to kill herself is the last example that Shakespeare uses to explain how love controls many of the important decisions of life. Juliet's willingness to do anything is expressed in the quote: "O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris / From off the battlements of yonder towe...

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This meager, seemingly unimportant word plays a significant role in Shakespeare's most well known piece Romeo and Juliet. ... Many of the most well known quotes from Romeo and Juliet involve some aspect of how fate controls their actions. ... Romeo and Juliet are also aware of what role fate plays and mention it quite often. ... If Romeo and Juliet had free will the play would have drastically changed. ... Fate decides our decisions just as it does in Romeo and Juliet. ...

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Bad Family The play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet portrays two families that are extraordinarily similar. ... One such important statement is made by Juliet. ... In the preceding quote a hurdle is the sled that prisoners were taken to their executions on. ... Tybalt kills Mercutio while Romeo attempts to stop the fight. ... The two families in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet are quite similar. ...

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