8-2 Romeo And Juliet

In a beautiful Italian city called Verona there are two wealthy and important families that despise one another. The Montagues and the Capulets. The young men of these families often get into loud and violent fights in the streets. After one really bad fight, the prince steps in and forces the families to make peace. They refuse to make friends but but they manage to agree to stop fighting.

One night, Lord Capulet throws a huge party to introduce his daughter, Juliette, to eligible bachelor Count Paris. At the ball, instead of meeting Paris, Juliette bumps into a total hottie called Romeo and they fall in love. Her nurse tells her that Romeo is a Montague and is, because of her crazy family, her enemy. At night, Romeo finds Juliet at her window and promises to marry her the next morning.

That next day, after the secret wedding, Romeo bumps into Tybalt Capulet. Tybalt is very angry that a Montague dared to invite himself to a Capulet party. Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel, but Romeo's friend Mercutio decides to attack Tybalt instead. As the young men struggle with each other, Mercutio is injured and killed by Tybalt. Before he dies, Mercutio curses the two families.

Now angry and hurt, Romeo stabs and murders Tybalt out of revenge. Romeo then runs away and hides in the home of the friar that married him. When the prince arrives at the crime scene, he immediately banishes Romeo and proclaims that if he is seen inside Verona's walls after the following day, he will be executed. Romeo gets totally emotional and goes to say goodbye to Juliet before running away to Mantua.

Meanwhile, Juliet's father insists that she marries Paris, even though her cousin has just been murdered. Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence for help. He gives her a vial of medicine that, when drunk, will send her to sleep for 42 hours while making her appear dead. The friar sends Romeo a message explaining the plan and asks Romeo to come and meet Juliet and whisk her away to Mantua.

However, Romeo never gets the message and so when his servant brings him news that Juliet is dead, he believes it's true. Romeo is super upset. He buys poison from an apothecary and breaks into the Capulet tomb in Verona. There, he drinks the poison and dies beside his wife. When Juliet wakes up, she finds Romeo's body and in her grief stabs herself with his dagger.

Friar Lawrence is left to explain the story to the prince and the two families agree to make peace and stop their fighting forever.