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  Still applicable to life today, the play Romeo and Juliet has many lessons that we can learn.  Just like in the play, we still have racism, prejudice and bias in almost everything today.  In Romeo and Juliet, it was animosity between the Capulets and the Montagues that cause prejudice and bias in Verona. An example of this animosity can be seen in the prologue:

Two households, both alike in dignity

(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

  While reading Romeo and Juliet, students can learn about bias and prejudice because it runs rampant through the play.  Many of the characters  fall victim to fatal mistakes that always had an impact on the outcome of the play.  Humans make mistakes and there's no avoiding it no matter how hard you try.  The harder you try to be perfect, then the bigger the mistake you'll make.  Conveyed phenomenally throughout Romeo and Juliet, we can learn to apply it to our daily lives.  What was there to check the ardour of hope, of faith, of constancy, just rising in her breast, but disappointment which she had not yet felt!  One of the main controversies of Romeo and Juliet is that they got married too fast.  Getting married too fast basically messed everything up.  They acted on impulse and not on counsel and discussion.  We can learn not to act rashly or on impulses.  Another thing that we can also learn that strong feelings such as love or grief can rule our lives and make the decisions for us that lead to the destruction of our lives as we know them.