Though Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, was written almost 500 years ago, teens today can still connect to the problems Romeo and Juliet had with their own parents. Romeo and Juliet, children of the supposed enemies, personally overcome their own family feud and fall in love. Instead of going to their parents with the information of their relationships, they go to Friar Lawrence and the nurse. Romeo and Juliet repetitively met up with the support of Friar and the nurse, and the parents soon find out after their deaths. At the beginning of this play it is read that Romeo locked himself up in his room and denied everyone's attempts for comfort. Mr. Montague indicated to Benvolio, “I neither know it nor can learn of him.” (Shakespeare 1.
