Essay on Romeo and Juliet The play Romeo and Juliet written by Romeo Shakespeare is about a teenager named Romeo who falls in love with a girl named Juliet. The problem with them falling in love and getting married is that they both come from feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. A character named Friar Laurence tries to stop the family feud by creating a plan between Romeo and Juliet. The plan doesn't work and Romeo and Juliet end up killing each other and the family feud ends. In the play Romeo and Juliet the two people who could have saved Romeo and Juliet were the Nurse and Lady Capulet. The Nurse acts like a friend in Act 3, Scene 5 and lines 225-238. This is when the Nurse tells Juliet how she should marry Paris because he is rich and now that Romeo is banished from Verona Romeo is nothing compared to Paris. This shows that the Nurse just wants to make her life easier by letting Juliet marry Romeo and not tell her parents. He had supported Juliet in her decision not to want to marry Paris as before. If the Nurse supported Juliet's decision then c...