It takes a lifetime to get to know someone, and over that time you can learn to love them. Many people will argue the topic of love at first site, but in reality could that actually occur, loving someone that you don’t even know? In Shakespeare’s play of Romeo and Juliet the main characters are made out to appear as though they have experienced just that and it is quite obvious that they believe that they are in love, but some of the other characters have a different view on what is really going on. Love may not have a definition, and lust may be hard to differentiate from true love, but lust is definitely the definition of this tragic story.
Love is unconditional. It is full of affection, trust, commitment, and happiness. When you are in love with someone they are the last thing you think about when you fall asleep at night and the first thing you think about when you wake up. Love is intense, passionate, but more importantly it takes times. Time, when related to love, is not twenty four hours, it is not a week, and it is not a month, it is never ending clock that goes on for your entire life. The concept of “love takes time” was obviously one that Romeo and Juliet did not comprehend. The timeline of their romance was spread out over a span of six to seven days. That is barely enough times to become friends with someone, let alone fall in love with them. While trying to intertwine the idea that Romeo and Juliet are in love, Shakespeare incorporated bits and pieces to make it seem
Read 2 like what they were experiencing was real. “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” (II, 2, 33-36) This quote is a prime examp...
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...ause he could not live without Juliet, and Juliet killed herself because she could not live without her beloved Romeo. Whether this was love or irrational thinking is hard to say, but what is clear is that Romeo wanted Juliet’s virginity, because it was clearly stated, Juliet was perfectly fine with his reasoning and gave him exactly what he wanted, and neither of them even had the chance to get to know one another before they killed themselves. Love may be many things, but it is not what the story of Romeo and Juliet is about. Their tragic story came to be from a broken heart and a confused teenage girl being forced into marriage. It lead to secrets and deceit, deaths and betrayals, and awful miscommunication. They were overcome with lust, lost all site of what had meaning in their lives, and killed themselves because of it. Love had no place in their sad story.
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...
Love made Romeo put himself in dangerous situations, and caused Juliet to go against what her parents wanted. This is important to the story because it is Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other that ends the feud. If Romeo and Juliet never fell in love than they never would have killed themselves to be together. Their deaths helped Lord Montague and Lord Capulet to settle their differences and end the feud between the two houses. Therefore, without their live, the feud would have never
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
Lust or Love: An Essay Analyzing the Relationship of Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
However, they have not taken into consideration that possibly Romeo and juliet were making brash decisions and were not taking the others thoughts into consideation. Nor Romeo, or Juliet thought about what each other may have wanted. Neither of them stopped to think about the possibility that even if they were dead, that they still might have wanted each other to live. If they wanted they other one to die if they died, that would support the fact that they really didn’t love each because if you truly love someone, you’d never want them to die, even in the event of your
Love is the biggest thing that can happen in human life. It can make your life incredible or forgettable. In the case of Romeo and Juliet, it was both. They had something between them that would never be destroyed. Their determination to stay together through the tough times was incredible. Even when they knew that their relationship would never be normal, they never gave up. It was a case of love at first sight when their eyes locked on each other. The story of Romeo and Juliet is more to do with love than hate.
However, no one is able to on account of the fact that the audience is so focused on how rash and unwise they are. Within the first few hours of knowing Romeo, Juliet bemoans the fact that her “only love, sprung from [her]only hate.” First off, she barely met the guy and she’s already saying that he’s her only love. It doesn’t make sense. Then, at the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with another woman, and then all of a sudden he’s in love with Juliet, whom he’s barely met? What is up with that? You can not forget someone and fall for someone else that fast. The friar says it best when he says “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.” And again the friar says wise words when he comments to Romeo as he’s leaving that Romeo should be wise and slow, because “ they stumble that run fast.” He’s clearly telling Romeo to not marry so soon, to think this
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.
Love and Lust in Play-By-Play, Sex without Love, and Junior Year Abroad. Lust is an incredibly strong feeling that can prove to be almost uncontrollable, leading it to commonly be mistaken for love. Due to the relative closeness of these emotions, both are often confused, and even when one is in love he or she does not recognize it. Many think that love just comes knocking on one's door and one will know when it does, but they don't realize that for love to occur, a relationship has to be worked out.
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.
Romeo and Juliet choose their own actions through their judgments, which were caused by their belief of everlasting love. Due to their unsound and absurd attitudes, both characters are dazed by love in a puerile manner. The relationship they created was actually built on lust and desperation. Firstly, Romeo is the first character whom shows immature love in the story as a whole. Once Capulet’s party is over, Romeo’s attitude leads him to jump over the wall to Juliet’s house and exclaim to her,” And what love can do, that dares love attempt./Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me”(2.2.68-9). The effect of love caused Romeo to not pay attention to the consequences of jumping over the wall and talking to the daughter of his enemy. The flaw is that he is beginning to think that his love is as hard as nails. It is illogical for Romeo to think this...
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, which is about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths end their feuding families feud. Throughout the story Romeo and Juliet comforted and loved each other which helped changed each of them for the better. As Shakespeare wrote, “ I’m invincible against their hatred “ (Shakespeare 2.2. 72-73). In the beginning, Romeo was known to be mopey, sad, and depressed, but that all changed when he met Juliet which happens to be what he needed at the time. Juliet was a sweet person who made Romeo soft and if someone wanted to fight him he would fight them back with his love. Love tends to lead people in the right direction. Clearly both characters fell deeply in love with each other which “told” them what the right thing had to be done. Shakespeare writes, “ Love told me what to do, and I let love borrow my eyes” (Shakespeare 2.2. 81-82). Romeo would risk everything for Juliet and it shows how love changed him for good and the affect it has on his choices. People may not want to admit they have changed, but changing for the better is the best thing someone may do for
Romeo and Juliet is a romantic love story about a young lad named Romeo who has fallen in love with Lady Juliet, but is unable to marry her because of a long-lasting family feud. The play ends in the death of both these characters and the reunion of the friendship between the families. Romeo is in love with Juliet, and this is a true, passionate love (unlike the love Paris has for her or the love Romeo had for Rosaline) that nothing can overcome, not even the hatred between their two families that is the reason for the death of their two children. Throughout the play, Shakespeare thoroughly explores the themes of both true love and false love and hatred. Without either of these themes, the play would loose its romantic touch and probably would not be as famous as it is today.
A young girl, like Juliet can be mesmerized by the idea of love and have the thought in her head that love is all that matters. The intensity of love in both of these texts becomes a dangerous and violent thing. Juliet goes through physical pain stabbing herself so she could be with Romeo after his death. Juliet looks at death as a positive thing because it allows her to be with Romeo again. Before she kills herself she says, “O, happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die” (Shakespeare V.iii.174-175). In most romantic tales, violence is the last thing you would think of when it comes to love, but it would be different in this play. In both of these texts we see love destroy people mentally and physically; instead of bring happiness to their lives. When Juliet notices that Romeo drank poison and had killed himself, she was not only upset about his death but also seemed more upset that he “left no friendly drop to help me after! I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them” (Shakespeare V.iii.168-170). This bond that seems to be unbreakable between them causes more harm than it would have if they were not together like society would want them to be. During this time period in the 16th century, the parents usually arranged marriages, so this goes completely against societal
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm. Romeo and Juliet is based on immature love, and is not a true love story. Love is a great source of passion throughout the world. Though love is considered a good emotion, it can also be one of the biggest flaws a person can have. When one is in love, they will basically do anything to be with the one they love. They don’t care about the number of rules they break, or how much they change themselves, as long as they can be with the one they truly love. They may take drastic measures from defying their parents and friends to committing suicide. Shakespeare shows the power of love and the affect it has, through one of the most well-known love stories in the world. Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet brings the audience through the brief relationship between Romeo and Juliet; even though it is short it is complex. We are shown love, hate, passion and commitment. In the end, we are shown how true love leass to true sacrifice. Is it possible that love at first sight really exists? That forces such as fate, can make a person find true love and never let go no matter the circumstances? The answers to these questions can be found in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.