In a world where teenagers are known to make impulsive and naïve decisions, especially when it comes to love, who is to say that they know what being in love really means? H. Jackson Brown, Junior explains love as "when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." For Anne Landers, "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." The play Romeo and Juliet, written by Shakespeare, consists of two young lovers who risk everything for each other. However, in looking closer at their interactions with each other, one can see that it is questionable …show more content…
When Romeo attends Capulet's ball, he sees Juliet for the first time and immediately feels attracted, completely forgetting about Rosaline. Admiring Juliet's beauty, he says, "As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear- / Beauty too rich for use, for Earth too dear" (1.5.53-54). As soon as he meets Juliet, they say they are in love and before they kiss, Romeo says, "Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! / Give me my sin again. / [And Juliet says,] You kiss by th' book" (1.5.120-122). By Ann Landers' definition of love, love starts out as friendship, but Romeo and Juliet were never friends. They essentially saw each other for their looks and kissed shortly after. Romeo and Juliet say they love each other, but love is not equal to physical attraction, which is all they felt. Later on, Romeo and Juliet discuss marriage, and at first, Juliet thinks that they are moving too fast. Juliet is about to dismiss Romeo when he says, "O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? / [Juliet then says,] What satisfaction canst thou have tonight? / [Romeo says,] Th' exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine" (2.5.132-134). Although Juliet wants to take their relationship slower, Romeo urges her to agree to the marriage so they can make love in consummating their marriage. This shows that Romeo only really "loves" Juliet for her looks. They never …show more content…
-Tell me, daughter Juliet,
How stands your disposition to be married?
[Juliet responds] It is an honor that I dream not of. (1.3.68-71)
Juliet is very young-only thirteen-and when her mother asks her about marriage, it is understandable that the idea hasn't crossed her mind. However, what does this say about Juliet's decision in marrying Romeo after a day (?) of seeing him? She says that she hasn't thought of marriage, yet immediately agrees to marry Romeo very shortly after meeting (albeit with a little resistance). Again, Romeo and Juliet jump to marriage so quickly, saying it is for being in love, when they don't have anything to back up the claim of their "great love." Romeo and Juliet say many [things] throughout the play that lead one to question whether they really understand what being in love means. Both Romeo and Juliet are very young and without much experience of love. Perhaps they don’t fully understand what romantic love is. A majority of people would agree that love starts out as friendship and is wanting what is best for the other person. Romeo and Juliet acted in many ways throughout the play that contradict the idea of them really being in love with each other. Several of their actions were due to their physical attraction to each other, and often times, neither thought of what was better for the other. All in all, Romeo and Juliet claim their actions to be for love, but make impulsive decisions without thinking of the other, which leads
Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love tales, but what if the play is not actually a tale of love, but of total obsession and infatuation. Romeo has an immature concept of love and is rather obsessive. Romeo is not the only person in the play who is obsessed though. Many people throughout the play notice his immaturities about love. Very rarely was true love actually shown in the play. attention. Romeo childishly cries to his friend, Benvolio because Rosaline will not love him back and says " She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow/ Do I live dead that live to tell it now" (I i 219-220). Romeo is stating that he's ready to die for loving Rosaline. This is exactly the same attitude Romeo had towards Juliet a little later in the play. During Scene I, Act ii, Romeo's friend, Benvolio tries to get him to go to the Capulet's party to help him get over Rosaline and meet other women Romeo gets very angry and emotional when he suggests this. “Now Romeo is beloved and loves again, / Alike bewitched by the charm of looks” (II 5-6). The chorus expresses Romeo’s juvenile way...
It’s often said that love at first sight is what occurred in this dismal story but you can not truly be in love until you have gotten to know the person and actually talked to them. When Romeo first saw Juliet he was already saying he was in love with her and didn’t even speak to her, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!” (I.V.52). When in actual, true love you must know the person. Juliet had just learned his name and she was already calling him her love, “My only love, sprung from my only hate!” (I.V.138). On top of that, they were just teenagers. Majority of all teenagers suffer from mood swings due to the hormones raging through their body. One day they’re angry the next they’re sad, so how could they have truly known what they have wanted? Yes, it is possible for teenagers to be in love, but it’s hard to tell whether it’s actual love. “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun” (I.II.96) In that line he was talking about a girl he met before he met Juliet, Romeo was claiming he was in love with her, Rosaline, and he was really down about that sitatuion. “Is Rosaline that thou didst love so dear, / So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” (II.III.66-68) Friar Lawrence even pointed it out; if he was able to get over Rosaline that quickly then he did not love her. If he could get over her that fast then he could find somebody else and get over Juliet
' Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.' Act 1 scene 1.
Love in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet "Romeo and Juliet" is a love tragedy based on different kinds of loves. Romeo and Juliet become married in a forbidden relationship over the high tension brawl between their rival families which Shakespeare clearly shows in the play. Despite the family brawls, the pair decides to let their "perfect" love defeat all. Peoples ideas have changed in the space of 400 years, for example back then some loves featured in this play would produce different reactions to the audience, than today. Shakespeare opens the play with the chorus who speaks a sonnet, where love imagery is found; "Two Star-crossed lovers" =
One reason some people think that Romeo and Juliet is a true love story is because the whole play is a feet of love about two teen agers how fall in love, go to the grave together and bring two warring family’s closer together due to their love. According to raven moss “love has no face” (para1). What moss is saying is that it does not matter your age race or beauty if its love then it is true .Also Romeo and Juliet were defiantly in love because they were willing to lay down their own life for one another and the fact that they risked their parents finding out and shutting them out of the family or worse never being able to see each other ever again (even though they were already married). According to raven moss teen agers know what love is because they are more open mined than adults so there for more willing to accept love.
My first reason for why Romeo and Juliet are not in love is that the human body during puberty creates many new cells from the amygdala, so many adolescents feel awkward and uncertain during this period of their life. Romeo had been recently rejected by Rosaline and was feeling vulnerable. Lastly, Juliet was thirteen which is a huge development phase for children and became rebellious. Everyone has gone through the “awkward” part of puberty, in which the child begins to feel more independent and enjoys making decisions on their own. Well, it would seem that Juliet has begun to grasp the concept of independence.
The lover’s immediate connection is established at the Capulet feast, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Through doing this, it shows that Romeo is reckless and continues even though he recognizes that they come from different families, “o dear, my life is my foe’s debt”. Throughout the play, it establishes that Juliet allows herself to behave impulsively and be persuaded by Romeo into a impetuous and thoughtless marriage, “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vowel for mine” Juliet expresses her concern that it is too soon to promise to love Romeo when they have only just met, “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden / Too like the lightning” This simile is used to convey Juliet’s thought on their sudden love. Although Juliet has recognized how spontaneous they are acting, it does not prevent her from continuing her relationship with Romeo, proving that Juliet is just as impulsive as Romeo. Thus, Shakespeare has skillfully utilized the lovers to demonstrate that their own reckless actions is a reason for their untimely
Despite what many people think, Romeo and Juliet is not a love story; rather a story of desperation and obsession. People have been reading Shakespeare for hundreds of years and several people have mistaken it for a love story, due to the fact that Romeo loves Juliet so much he is willing to kill himself when he finds her supposedly dead; she does the same when she wakes up to find him dead. But in fact, Romeo is more taken aback by her beauty than he is in love with her. Juliet is intrigued by the fact someone could love her because her parents are very unsupportive of her. When the two find each other, they immediately become obsessed, mistaking this for love at first sight.
Romeo and Juliet’s true love is being mistaken for infatuation because they are in lust and are not emotionally stable enough to be in true love.
True love is one of the most genuine, not to mention precious feelings in the world. In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, a pair of lovers denotes the strength of true love and it's ability to overcome nearly all obstacles. However, this kind of love is a rarity due to it's pureness but somehow many cheap imitations are still mistaken for real love. Romeo and Juliet's love is authentic and by no means an infatuation seeing as first of all, they both risk their lives to see each other and would rather die than be separated. Juliet also has an unusual level of loyalty towards her partner for her age which supports the idea of true love. In addition, throughout the play, Romeo's demeanour started to change and he began to mature in a considerably short period of time. Young love is a petty sentiment nonetheless when it develops into a fully-fledged unconditional love, both partners will begin to evolve and will do nearly anything for the other.
the play is not solely about love but also a lot of hatred is involved
Romeo, O, Romeo. Romeo and Juliet, a drama play by William Shakespeare, tells the tale of two star crossed lovers. In the city of Verona 1590, two love-stricken teenagers, are predestined to meet. They are forbidden to be with one another, for a feud by their progenitors has doomed them with a forever lasting hatred for one another. Defying those rules, the two decide to keep their love a secret, ending their lives in a way no one would have imagined.
A Study of Teenage Infatuation in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Love and infatuation are both strong emotions that most will encounter within their lifetime. The two feelings are often misunderstood, but are differentiated through their outcomes and stability. True love does not only rely on physical attraction, but also on one’s personality. When one is truly in love, they accept their partner’s flaws and perfections.
Throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, various types of love are portrayed. According to some of the students of Shakespeare, Shakespeare himself had accumulated wisdom beyond his years in matters pertaining to love (Bloom 89). Undoubtedly, he draws upon this wealth of experience in allowing the audience to see various types of love personified. Shakespeare argues that there are several different types of love, the interchangeable love, the painful love and the love based on appearances, but only true love is worth having.
In the play “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare shows that love has power to control one’s actions, feelings, and the relationship itself through the bond between a destined couple. The passion between the pair grew strong enough to have the capability to do these mighty things. The predestined newlyweds are brought down a rocky road of obstacles learning love’s strength and the meaning of love.