True Love In Romeo And Juliet

“The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” Essay True love is something that occurs naturally, without compulsion and pressure from any influential factors. The characters Romeo and Juliet die fighting for their infatuation that Shakespeare attempts to label as love. Neither character has an eloquent idea of what true love is; they are so inexperienced that they mistake their lust to be love. In the play, “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare expresses a romantic lust between the protagonists that fails to prove itself as true love because of struggles and conflicts that bring Romeo and Juliet together. Although Romeo claims that his love for Juliet is true, it is evident that he is only using

As Shakespeare introduces Romeo and Juliet as a couple, he shows the immediate, yet haste, intimacy between them. Romeo kisses Juliet, not once, but twice upon meeting while he says, “Then move not while my prayer's effect I take (He kisses her)...Give me sin again (He kisses her)” (1. 5. 105-110). Upon meeting each other Romeo and Juliet proceed to lock lips twice, without even knowing each other. Romeo finds Juliet to be one of the most beautiful maidens that he has ever encountered and he feels like he has reached love at it’s capacity, but it is only lust. Romeo described Juliet’s beauty as he says, “Juliet is the sun. Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief. That thou, her maid more fair than she.” (2. 2. 4-7) Romeo repetitively comments on Juliet’s looks, but never does he expand on what her personality is like, demonstrating the clear difference of his lust for Juliet, as opposed to true love. Romeo and Juliet don’t love each other, they love lust; they find each other so magnificent that they can’t bear not being