Star-Crossed Lovers End in a Tragic Death

Author: Adriana Osoy

Introduction
Montague vs. Capulet in the city of Verona, both alike in royalty. Hating each other for historical reasons. Their two loved children Romeo and Juliet, Montague and Capulet, with a secret passionate love, ended in a tragic death blamed on the rivalry between the two households. Deeper in the story seems as it was a fairytale but the deeper we get, the more mysterious it seems.

Romeo’s Profile
Romeo, who was a victim, was heir of Lady Montague and Montague. As a 16 year old boy, his personality reveals he was a smart, sensitive, somewhat immature and seems to be in the middle of the feud between his family and the Capulets. Of course he isn’t interested to get involved with the whole "fight". His close cousin, Benvolio, says "he was once in desperately in love with Rosaline" who is on the side of the Capulets. Benvolio thinks it wasn't "love". Sadly the relationship faded and left Romeo with nothing but tears on his cheeks. Mercutio, a close friend, said he had lots of freedom to go around the city, so Mercutio thought since he had freedom it would be easy to try and to get him to forget Rosaline and crash the upcoming Capulet party.
Where he meets the young, and beautiful Juliet.

Juliet’s Profile
The next victim was the young and beautiful, 13 year old Juliet. She was the daughter of the Capulets and didn't have much freedom to go around the city like Romeo did. She was always in the house raised by her nurse, who she was really close to and associated with her the most. The nurse tells us, “She was very naive and was a bit in blank when her mother asked her if she has ever thought of marriage or love. Juliet responded that she had very little thoughts about falling in love with someone.” Her parents were planning for her to marry Paris, a man of the Capulet party. The nurse also told us she never spoke to Juliet after she turned against her beloved Romeo.

Capulet Statements:
We tried to go deep into Juliet’s background, and who’s to know her better than her nurse? We talked and what she had to say seemed to put a lot of affect on the nurse. Nurse: “From my point of view I think both Montague and Capulet should’ve set things strait since the very beginning! Who cares for what their ancestors did in the past, because of the hatred between them both it caused them their children’s lives. I don’t know about you but I think it’s cruel to have your children and/or child to pay the consequences for the stupid mistakes the ‘parents’ did. You call yourselves parents? If you’re really parents you would at least talk to the girl about what she’s thinking and maybe you could settle down a bit to make her happy!”

Montague Statements:
Benvolio, Romeo’s closest cousin, didn’t have to say but he was the one that spoke the most, so we figured to put his opinion. Benvolio: “Well first thing I can say is Romeo was too much of a good person and didn’t deserve to be punished like this. Ending his life because of a secret love between both households, but what has me thinking is why did they still hate each other after so long? It doesn’t matter if they hated each other back then! The past is the past and life must go on. I’m more disappointed in the parents for not actually being parents. Real parents don’t just let their kids roam the street to do what they wish. I’m not saying it was wrong for Romeo to love Juliet, I’m saying both parents didn’t pay attention to their kids so they did everything behind our backs and expected things to be better from that point on... but things went the complete opposite.”

Consequences!
The prince has decided to put Lord Montague and Lady Montague, Capulet and Lady Capulet, on trial for the deaths of their kids. For not being the parents they should’ve been since the very beginning. Thanks to both sides of each household, Nurse and Benvolio, the prince has looked at both stories and both stories match on what is said to “not being good parents”. Now both families left with no king or queen nor prince or princess. May Romeo be with his lovely Juliet and may Juliet rest in peace with beloved Romeo.