Romeo and Juliet has become Shakespeare's most well-known love story. See how true love can blossom, even in an unfriendly setting of hatred and feuding. Read along and find out how their innocence enables them to overlook the fighting between their families. Romeo and Juliet are betrayed by the very families they cae about, forcing them to take their lives instead of being separated. In the end, through the pain of losing their children, the families realize how trivial their differences really were.