“Romeo and Juliet” is one of the most famous and recognized worldwide plays of William Shakespeare. This play tells the story of the romance of one couple, whose life and fate at the end of the story takes on the genre of tragedy. This game takes place in Verona around the end of the year 1500.
The main point of the play is that Romeo could not be with Juliet, as their families were major competitors and were at enmity with each other. However, although their families hated each other for many years, Romeo and Juliet never met before.
It so happened that the Capulet (the Juliet family) had a big celebration in which they invited all the townspeople except the Montecchi family and as usual they sent their servants to invite people from the city.
One of the slaves, really not knowing the members of the Montecchi family, invites Romeo and his two friends to a holiday.
After some deliberation, Romeo and his friends Benvolio and Mercutio decide to go to a party. While the feast was taking place, Capulet introduced his daughter Juliet as a bride to Count Paris, without asking Juliet for her opinion on this matter. When Romeo and Juliet saw each other, I would say that it was love at first sight what happened between them.
Shortly after the celebration was over, Romeo asked one of his friends to find out what kind of girl he was dancing with. When they both understood who they were, a sense of despondency invaded their heads, but their love for each other only grew more than antipathies for their families. Therefore, their relationship should have been kept secret until their hope that one day their families will reconcile becomes a reality.
Once Romeo comes to his beloved with the idea of marriage. They agreed to meet near the chapel the next day, where they decided to get married, without giving parents an occasion to find out about their plans. As they had already agreed, they both went to the chapel and secretly married.
When the ceremony ended, they planned to see each other at night, but they did not know that this was their last meeting.
Shortly after they said goodbye to each other, Romeo leaves for the city, and to his surprise, finds his friends, Mercutio and Benvolio, in a fight with some of the guys from the Capulet family, including Tybalt, the cousin of the lady of Capulet. During the ongoing riot, Romeo does everything possible to stop him, but the fight ends with the blow of Tybalt’s sword, which kills Mercutio. Consequently, Romeo embraces anger for the murdered friend and agrees to a duel with Tybalt.
Thus, he kills Tybalt and runs away to avoid the prince’s judgment and becomes expelled from Verona.
But before leaving his hometown, he visits Juliet and tells her what happened and that he will find a way to return to her as soon as possible. Soon after Romeo left, Juliet’s parents came to her room and told her that she would get married in two days with Count Paris. Not knowing what to do, she asks for help from a monk. Lorenzo tells her that the only way she could avoid getting married with Count Paris is to pretend that she is dead, and for this she had to drink a certain dose of a special poison that would leave her unconscious for two days, but not kill her.
This would leave the necessary time to tell Romeo about the plan. The next day, Juliet’s parents found out that their daughter was dead, not knowing that it was just a fake death.
After Romeo discovers that his dear love Juliet is dead, he immediately decides to go to Verona. However, before he returns to Verona, Romeo decides to buy poison in order to kill himself. Romeo’s hasty decision to return to Verona and kill himself is a bad decision.
His impulsiveness did not give him time to think about the consequences. If Romeo had thought of visiting a monk, he would have discovered that Juliet’s death was framed, and that Juliet would soon wake up. When Romeo gets to the place where Juliet lay motionless, he finds her in the presence of Paris. Paris, knew that Romeo was the one who killed Tybalt, he jumped over Romeo and began to fight with him.
Romeo was faster and stronger than Paris and defeated him. After the reprisal with Paris, he runs to the body of Juliet and takes the poison, kissing her for the last time before the poison would have its effect.
A few minutes after he dies, Juliet wakes up from sleep, and discovers that his beloved is dead. Lorenzo then arrives at the scene and finds two corpses of Count Paris and Romeo, he also saw Juliet, who mourned the death of Romeo. The monk is trying to convince Juliet that she would leave Romeo, but she wants to stay with him for the last minutes.
So the monk leaves her alone, but after he returns, he finds out that Juliet committed suicide, since she could not live without his love.
After their family finally realized what happened, and they decide to live in peace and there is no longer any sense in the struggle between them after the tragic death of their son and daughter, knowing that if they let Juliet make their own choice, none of this would be what happened.