Don't you hate it when something doesn't turn out the way you wanted? When you care so deeply about something and sacrifice so much just so it can happen, but still it ends in ruins. This is the theme of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this tragic story, two doomed lovers risk everything, even life itself, to be together. They go against their family, their 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 many warnings which, if 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, two star-crossed lovers commit suicide...and with their deaths bury their parents' conflict." » [Prologue. 5-8] In the very first lines of the story, the Prologue, we learn about two “star-crossed” lovers who are destined to be with each other; But these two lovers face a major obstacle: their parents are long-time enemies. These two doomed lovers face many obstacles to be together. In the Prologue it is said that “by their death they would bury the conflict of their parents”; the only way for them to be together and for their parents to stop fighting is if they both die. As a foreshadowing of the Prologue, we read Romeo explaining his dream to Mercutio, his closest friend. Romeo and Mercutio were on their way to the Capulet costume party. On the way, Romeo tells Mercutio about his dream from the previous night. He had dreamed that something that was supposed to happen that night would lead him to his grave: "A consequence still hanging in the stars will bitterly begin its terrible appointment with this night's festivities, and th... . middle of paper ......the game was taken more seriously by key characters. Romeo and Juliet are two doomed lovers from families who are sworn enemies. Their love is not only destined, but fatal; which led to their death. Frair Lawrence and Nurse could have prevented circumstances from escalating by listening to Romeo and Juliet's first declaration of love. The nurse knew her masters' opinion of the Montague family, she could have informed the parents of their meeting at the party and their parents could have prevented their affair. Frair Lawrence could have also prevented their deaths, it is true that their marriage would have brought peace, but it was a risky chance to take. The families could have been more angry with each other than welcoming and understanding. Both characters had love in their intentions, but some things don't end the way we want them to..