The Real Story of Romeo and Juliet 2024.

The Real Story of Romeo and Juliet

The Tragic Lovers

.In the city of Verona, there lived two families

.They were the Montagues and the Capulets

.Both families were very powerful

.And they hated each other

The families had quarreled once. No one could even remember why. But since that time, no Capulet had any use for a Montague. No Montague could stand the sight of a Capulet.

.Members of two families had often had street fights

.Members of both families had been killed

.Romeo was a Montague. He was young and full of mischief

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One evening, for fun, he and two young friends put on masks.

They sneaked into a masked ball at the Capulets’ young woman he had never seen before He didn’t know who she was.

.He only knew she was beautiful and she smilied at him

He fell in Love with her on the spot. Later, he learned who she she was. She was Juliet, daughter of the Capulets! She was one of the enemy.
……Yet he felt no hatred for her

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Romeo couldn’t help himself. He didn’t care that Juliet was a Capulet ; he loved her anyway. One night, he slipped into the Capulets’ garden and gazed up at her window. Juliet came to the window. He called to her. He told her who he was. He told her of his love. She replied that she had fallen
.in love with him too
.She didn’t care that he was a Montague

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They both knew their families would never agree to let them marry . So they decided to be married secretly. A friend monk, Friar Laurence, married them the next day. But as Romeo was coming from the wedding , he was caught up in a street fight. One of his best friends was fighting with a member of the Capulet family named Tybalt. Tybalt killed Romeo’s friend. In the heat of the moment , Romeo killed Tybalt.

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To escape punishment, Romeo had to leave the city. And so
.he left his new bride behind

Now Juliet’s parents intended for her to marry a man named Paris. They would not permit her to say no . They were already preparing for the wedding. But Juliet was secretly married to Romeo. She already had a husband !! However,
?she was afraid to tell her parents this. What was she to do
.She turned to Friar Laurence for help

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Friar Laurence had an idea. He gave her a sleeping potion."Drink this," he told her."It will put you in a deep sleep. But you will appear to be dead. Thus there can be no wedding. Your family will take your body to the family tomb. I will send a message to Romeo. I will tell him what was really happened. When you wake up, Romeo will come to get you."

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Juliet did as he said. She drank the potion. She fell into a deep sleep and seemed to be dead. Filled with gried, her family took her to the tomb. But a terrible thing happened . Friar Laurence’s message never reached Romeo . Instead, Romeo heard that Juliet was dead, and he believed that she really was dead . He went to the tomb and saw her lying
.there.Heartbroken, he killed himself by drinking poison
. He died by her side

Juliet awoke from her deathlike sleep. She found Romeo’s body beside her. She, too was overcome by grief. Taking
.Romeo’s dagger, she stabbed herself

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When the bodies of the two lovers were found, the whole truth came out. The Montague and Capulet families saw what their feud led to . They forgave each other . The quarrel that had lasted so many years was over. But it
.was too late for Romeo and Juliet

.Their love had finally brought peace between their families

.But the price of peace was their death

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Romeo and Juliet may be the most famous lovers of all time. Their story is told in the play Romeo and Juliet. Some day you may read this play. Perhaps you will see it on the stage or in a film. It was written by the greatest writer in the
.English Language. His name? William Shakespeare