Iesha Greer Final Exam Essay

In the play Romeo and Juliet two lovers from different families fall in love. This causes a big tragedy bad for them good for the families.
Romeo is a Montague, Juliet is a Capulet their families hate each other. One night Romeo's friends convince him to go to a Capulet party, when he gets there he spots Juliet and it was like love at first sight. They talk and they really like each other but they know they could never get married. They do it anyways. Romeo and Juliet go to the Friar and he marries the two together, but nobody knows except the three of them.
In Verona where the story takes place the Prince clearly states that if he catches anyone fighting that they will be killed. Juliet's cousin and Romeo's friend were playing around and Tybalt (Juliet's cousin) accidentally kills Mercutio (Romeo's friend) but he gets away with it, but Romeo doesn't let him get away with it. Romeo went and found Tybalt and fought him till he killed him but that was a big mistake. The prince finds out about what happened, but instead of killing Romeo he just banishes him from Verona, because of what Tybalt did to Mercutio. When he was banished he was not only banished from Verona he was banished from his family and his wife...
When Romeo gets banished Juliet is pretty much forced to marry Paris as soon as possible, (a fellow Capulet) but she really doesn't want to marry him. She goes to the Friar and asks him for help as to what to do, he has a plan. His plan is for Juliet to drink a potion to make her look like she's dead so when she wakes up the next morning instead of her having a wedding she will have a funeral. Back in these days they didn't bury people under the ground they put them in an underground dungeon. So he gives her the potion and the plan is for her to drink it and look dead and get put into the underground dungeon and after the funeral Romeo will come and save her. Before this the Friar sent a letter to Romeo in Montua telling him about the plan, but it never gets there.
The next morning Romeo heared that Juliet was dead and that her family was putting together a funeral for her. Being the loyal husband he is, he hops on a horse buys some poison and gets on his way back to Verona. When he gets there he goes to the dungeon he sees her and he drinks the poison and he kills himself. Moments later Juliet wakes up from her deadly sleep she sees that Romeo killed himself thinking that she was really dead, she trys to kiss him and get the poison off his lips so she could die too, but it doesn't work so she goes to plan b she takes out his knife and she stabs herself and she died right next to her husband.
In the denouement Romeo and Juliet are dead and the families realize their fighting effects a lot of people including their children. The tragedy in this story brought the families together they stopped fighting but their fighting killed Romeo and Juliet. It was bad for Romeo and Juliet, but good for the families.