Romeo And Juliet Negative Consequences

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s best known stories. The story of Romeo and Juliet is about Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. For many years the Capulet’s and Montague’s have had a feud. Romeo and Juliet end up falling in love with each other, but they can’t tell anybody. Romeo gets banished from Verona, so Juliet takes a sleeping potion to act as if she is dead. Romeo goes to her tomb and thinks she is actually dead, so he kills himself too. Juliet wakes up from the sleep potion and hears that Romeo killed himself, so she kills herself. In the end the families end their feud because their children killed themselves, and each family builds a statue of the other family’s kid in the town square. In the story, the families learned that there is always a consequence for their actions. Romeos actions had a lot of negative consequences in the play. Romeo learned that Rosaline didn’t like him, so he went to a Capulet party with his friends Benvolio and Mercutio. He had a dream that if he went to the party that six people would die. Six people did die. Going to the party had a lot of negative consequences; it’s what made him kill himself in the end. He found Juliet at the party and that’s when they started to like each other. Romeo was also in town one day and his friend Mercutio and Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, were getting into a fight. Romeo tried to stop the fight by putting his arm in between them but Tybalt stabbed Mercutio and he died. After Mercutio