Has Shakespeare convinced you that Romeo and Juliet are in love at the end of act one?
What is love? Love means a warm liking or affection for a person, affectionate devotion. Does the way Romeo describe Juliet sound like love to you? In my opinion love does not occur at first sight, it is something that you need to work towards. Romeo just describes Juliet’s beauty and not her inner-beauty. “Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!” Romeo is just saying how beauty like that is too good for the earth. When Romeo says “ O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt,” he is saying that his life and love is in the hands of an enemy! This is a very harsh statement to say considering he has never talked or meet Juliet Capulet. Think of Shakespeare’s choice of words and the way he incorporates them into the play. Do his choice and arrangement of words; make you think, about Romeo and Juliet’s love?
If you thought Romeo was going to extremes wait until you hear about Juliet. Immediately after meeting Romeo, she tells the nurse “If he be married, my grave is likely to be my wedding-bed.” Juliet is saying that if she could not marry him she would rather be dead. Remember Juliet is saying this with out even knowing Romeo’s name. Juliet asks her nurse who that fine gentleman is, the nurse quickly replies “His name is Romeo, and a Montague; the only son of your great enemy.” Shakespeare makes you wonder if Romeo and Juliet are actually in love.
Since this play was written 400 years ago, the world has changed significantly, but the emotions and way of thinking in this play have withstood the test of time. This is why movies, such as Romeo and Juliet in (1996) were so successful. Shakespeare's play and the movie showed they have many similarities and many differences, but one thing remains, they all use universal truths to relate to their audiences.
As it stands, I do not believe that Romeo is in love with Juliet, but Juliet is in love with Romeo.
This is exactly how Romeo behaves. Juliet on the other hand had to marry Count Paris so her love with Romeo is simply a way to get out of it. She never had a relationship with a man and she didn’t like to have her first and only relationship with a man her parents arranged for her. She wanted freedom and Romeo was her ticket to it.
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...
Romeo and Juliet are madly in love with each other and will go to any lengths to be together.
Juliet is a very loving person, especially towards Romeo. During the balcony scene when Romeo is about to leave, Juliet says, “A thousand times goodnight!/(2.2.154) I shall forgot, to have thee still stand there, Rememb’ring how I love thy company.”(2.2.173-174) Juliet feels true love with Romeo, as she expresses this through her actions, each time he speaks, each time they kiss, Juliet never wants to leave Romeo’s side. Shakespeare continues to make it clear that Juliet is a loving person through the people she close with. Romeo and Juliet have fallen in love so quickly that the nurse hopes that Juliet will get married while she’s alive, even if it means that Juliet marries at a young age.
By the end of the play, Romeo and Juliet have completely fallen in love, which ultimately led to their premature deaths; with their relationship beginning as lust and blossoming into love. While Romeo and Juliet's interest in each other starts off as just physical attraction, through spending time together and learning about each other, their relationship transitions into true love because of the constant fear of living without each other.
Romeo and Juliet don't truly love each other, for many reasons: Juliet hasn't been exposed to other men and relationships, Romeo was just recently madly in love with Rosaline, and they just met each other, the same night they declared their love. I think in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a good play, but i don't think the love Shakespeare is trying to explain is a real love. Although maybe he believes in love at first sight and is trying to show how strong love can be. Now in this time in the world i think that many people don't really
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
...ay for years, believing it was a play about love, but the way Shakespeare wrote the play it is far from a love story. As Romeo moved from Rosaline to Juliet, for the simple fact that he believed Juliet is more beautiful than Rosaline, gives the perfect example that the play is based on desperation. Juliet says to Romeo, showing her desperation, “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow / that I shall say good night till it be morrow” (II ii 188-189). When Romeo and Juliet say they cannot spend another night away from each other, it sets a perfect example of obsession in the play. Even Romeo knows he is anxious to force love when he says, “Th’ exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine” (II ii 127).
He relentlessly speaks about how beautiful she is when he questions, “did my heart love her till now? forswear it sight!/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Shakespeare 1.5.51-52). It is evident that Romeo cannot focus on anything else but Juliet’s looks, which is a sign of physical attraction rather than love at first sight. Romeo proclaims to “love” Juliet the minute he lays eyes on her.
The trouble created by love is suggested soon after Romeo and Juliet’s experience their intense romantic relationship. In Act 1 scene 5 when Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time at the Capulet’s party. From the very start Romeo already had felt inferior (not superior) to the beauty and goodness of Juliet: “If l profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this, my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with ...
...oice. He is a Montague, Juliet is a Capulet; this will never work. For example, Tybalt ( Juliet’s died cousin who was killed by Romeo) is dead because Juliet chose to marry Romeo. If Juliet stayed away from Romeo Tybalt would have been alive still. Plus Juliet’s only seen Romeo maybe 2 or 3 times, is she really in love? Or is she like Romeo, only in love with his beauty.
I believe Romeo is both right and wrong: unrequited love is painful, but Romeo does not truly love - as he is merely infatuated by a woman. Another type of love we are exposed to during the same scene is the love of Lady Capulet. Lady Capulet, as well as The Nurse, believes love comes from appearance, both physical and political, and has nothing to do with emotion. She shows this when she speaks favorably of Paris's looks and his nobility. She also shows that it is a superficial love by the way she treats Capulet when she publicly denounces him.
‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a tragic play about two star crossed lovers written by Shakespeare in 1595. The play is a timeless teenage tradgedy. “The play champions the 16th Century belief that true love always strikes at first sight,” (Lamb 1993: Introduction) and even in modern times an audience still want to believe in such a thing as love at first sight. Act II Scene II the balcony scene displays that romantic notion perfectly.
When Romeo meets Juliet, he claimed to be immediately in love. Although he has been sulking over Rosaline, when he met Juliet, he states, “Did my heart love till now? forswear it sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Act 1.5 Lines 51-52). The entire time as he envisions love with Rosaline, it was all incoherent. Romeo’s impulsive attitude causes him to fall head over heels with Juliet, which begins the drama in this play.
Romeo has a passion for love that is unbreakable, and he will do anything to get who he wants, no matter the consequences that might follow. An example of this is when Romeo goes to Juliet’s balcony and confesses his love for her, but what he does not understand is that “if they do see thee, they will murder thee” (Shakespeare II.ii.75). Romeo has trouble accepting the reality that it will not work out for him or her because of family differences. The intensity of love in both of these texts becomes a dangerous and violent thing.