Fate Vs Freewill Flashcards
‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; whose misadventure’d piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents strife’
Q1
‘I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful fate…’a despis’d life clos’d in my breast’
Q2
‘One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book. I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave’
Q4
‘I am fortune’s fool…This day’s black fate on more days doth depend, this but begins the woe others must end’
Q3
Freewill:
Presented as an act of independence and aligning to the belief of characters
‘I will withdraw but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall’
Q5
‘It is too rash, too unadvis’d too sudden, too like the lightning which doth cease’
Q6
‘Young waverer… I’ll thy assistant be. For this alliance may so happy prove to turn thy households’ rancour to pure love’
Q7
‘These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume’
Q8
‘O happy dagger, taking Romeo’s dagger this is thy sheath; there rust and let me die’
Q9
Fate
Portraying it as inescapable, pre-ordained and insurmountable