The lesson was young love can be difficult and you shouldn't make rash decisions you can't take back. Romeo killed himself because Juliet pretended she had.
Actually, I think it was more Shakespeare's response to the new and novel idea of marrying for love, rather than for money and connections (at least as far as the upper classes were concerned.) Shakespeare seems to have been a conservative, and Romeo and Juliet says that letting young people do their own choosing is a bad idea, because young people are idiots.
Isn't the lesson in Romeo And Juliet that it sucks being straight? If Romeo just liked Tibalt, the whole thing would have been resolved in Act 1.
The lesson was young love can be difficult and you shouldn't make rash decisions you can't take back. Romeo killed himself because Juliet pretended she had.
Actually, I think it was more Shakespeare's response to the new and novel idea of marrying for love, rather than for money and connections (at least as far as the upper classes were concerned.) Shakespeare seems to have been a conservative, and Romeo and Juliet says that letting young people do their own choosing is a bad idea, because young people are idiots.
you just wrote what I did in more words.