Romeo And Juliet

            Moral Lesson in Romeo and Juliet Through Romeo and Juliet, one moral lesson is to be truthful and honest. When Friar Laurence must marry Juliet and Paris, he feels it would be considered a sin to marry Juliet again so he comes up with a plan to have her appear dead so that it postpones the marriage and everyone thinks she is really dead. When he is telling Juliet about the plan he has, he says, "Thou wilt undertake/ A thing like death to chide away this shame" (v.i.73-74). He says this because it's all part of the plan to make her appear dead and once she is put in the tomb, Romeo will go and save her before she awakens.
             When Juliet's parents, the nurse and Paris find Juliet dead, they are devastated, very confused and Lady Capulet is shocked when she sees her only daughter laying on her bed, dead. In response to her death, Lady Capulet says, "O me, O me, my child, my only life! /Revive, look up, or I will die with thee" (v.v.19-20) and the whole family mourn over her death and are very saddened. They believe that she had died over mourning for Tybalt's death.
             The whole plan was for Juliet to drink the potion, appear dead, then Friar Laurence would inform Romeo and by the time Juliet was put in the tomb, Romeo would take her out before she wakes up and they would then leave together. Unfortunately this plan does not work out because Romeo isn't informed in time and he thinks she is really dead. As a result, Romeo says, "I will lie with you tonight" when he sees her and he kills himself because he feels there would be no reason to live if Juliet couldn't be in his life. This just shows you that one lie leads to another and therefore one moral lesson from this story would be to stay truthful.