A significant number of asexuals also identify as aromantic, which means that they do not experience romantic attraction. Separating romantic and sexual attraction is not strictly limited to asexual people, however. For instance, it is possible for someone to be an aromantic heterosexual, or any other combination.
Shakespeare got the story of Romeo and Juliet from a poem by Arthur Brooke called Romeus and Juliet. In Brooke's poem, the story takes place in Verona, Italy.
In Romeo and Juliet', fate plays an extremely powerful role throughout the story. Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed lovers, as the prologue at the start of the play indicated, they had fate against them. In that time, people were very wary of what the stars said.