Don't you hate it when something doesn't go the way you wanted? When you care so deeply about something and sacrifice so much just for it to happen, but still, it ends in ruin. This is the theme of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this tragic story, two fated lovers risk everything, even life itself, to be together. They go against family, friends and destiny to be together. If the play's premonitions had been taken more seriously by the key characters, the tragedy could have been avoided. In the play we read of many warnings that, if they had been heeded, would have saved Romeo and Juliet's lives. Warnings such as the Prologue and Romeo's first dream: "From the fatal loins of these enemies a pair of ill-fated lovers take life...with their death they bury their parents' strife." [Prologue. 5-8] In the very first lines of the story, the Prologue, we learn of two “star-crossed” lovers who are destined to be together; However, these two lovers face a major obstacle: their parents are longtime enemies. These two fated lovers must face many adversities to be together. In the Prologue it is stated that “through their death they would bury the conflict of their parents”; the only way they can be together and make their parents stop fighting is if they both die. Foreshadowing the Prologue we read of Romeo explaining his dream to Mercutio, his closest friend. Romeo and Mercutio were going to the Capulet costume party. On the way, Romeo tells Mercutio about his dream from the previous night. He had dreamed that something that should happen that night would lead him to the grave: "Some consequence still hanging among the stars will bitterly begin its fearful rendezvous with this night's festivities, and and... middle of paper ...the game was taken more seriously by the key characters. Romeo and Juliet are two fated lovers who come from sworn enemy families. Their love is not only fated, but fatal; which Frair Lawrence and the nurse could have avoided that circumstances got out of hand, hearing Romeo and Juliet's first declaration of love for each other The nurse knew her masters' views on the Montague family, she could have notified the parents of their meeting at the party and their parents could have. prevent their relationship. Even Frair Lawrence could have prevented their deaths, it is true that their marriage would have brought peace, but that was a risky opportunity to take. The families may have been more angry towards each other than welcoming and understanding. Both characters had love in their intentions, but some things don't end the way we wanted.