Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare around 1594. The play Romeo and Juliet is about two start crossed lovers who were born into a world with an ‘ancient grudge’. This automatically leads to Romeo and Juliet’s death. This sorrowful play was performed in Globe Theatre as there was large number of people who entirely wanted to watch this interesting play immediately. According to the play it contains a strong violent, and conflict, however Shakespeare uses conflict in different ways throughout the play, he uses to reflect on how woman were treated back in the Elizabethan period, how the marriage partner was chosen by father and how many were expected to obey the man. Additionally, this play there was a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families whom disrupted the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet.
The feud between the Montague’s and Capulet’s is the main theme throughout the play. There was hate between the two families; even the servants hated each other. This caused huge problems for Romeo and Juliet and this is why they kept their marriage in secret. If their parents discovered their secret, they would have made their children's lives miserable. In act 5 scene 3 the letter to Romeo in Mantua does not get delivered. Instead Romeo's servant, Balthasar, tells him that Juliet is dead. Romeo returns to the Capulet tomb with poison he has bought, as he drinks the poison and dies next to his wife. When Juliet awakes in the vault, she is overcome with grief and stabs herself. The death of the two young lovers finally ends the years of bad blood between the Montague’s and the Capulet’s. The two households lost their only child’s and no one left in their families to carry their famous names.
Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows that Romeo and Juliet fall in love and cannot make it work because of family conflict; additionally, the audience knew