Romeo and Juliet perfectly captures the rush of being in love and the desire to make that feeling last forever despite daunting circumstances.
The story is often thought to be about love and its power. But actually, the audience fails to realize that the love is included in the piece only in a few fragile moments of satisfaction. The theme of the play becomes mainly about violence and chaos, confusion and death. From the very beginning of the play, it is highly evident that violence will occur. Furthermore, the needlessness of the deaths in society, especially since they predominantly happen among youth.
The story teaches one to let old family wounds go and not let one's emotions rule one's life. The Montagues and the Capulets have let an old family rivalry take away the future of their own children. It is a narrative that expresses a historical conflict between old forms of identity and new modes of desire, between authority and freedom, between parental will and romantic individualism.