The play ends with Montague and Capulet agreeing to end their feud, each promising to erect a golden statue of the other’s child. Prince Escalus’s closing lines — “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo” — frame the deaths explicitly as the price of the families’ feud.

It’s worth asking critically whether this ending feels like a satisfying resolution or a hollow one: the feud ends only after it has cost both families their children, and the reconciliation is symbolic (statues) rather than a repaired relationship. This ambiguity is a common discussion point and is picked up again in the Themes module.