Are Not In Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo is very dramatic and obsessed with love. In the beginning he is obsessed with being in love, it doesn't seem like he loves Rosaline, he just wants to be in love with someone. But by the end of the book I think he might actually love Juliet.

After Romeo and Juliet met, the thought of not being together made both of them consider killing themselves. Several times, they have threatened to do so, but not until the end of the play did they each take their last breath. Juliet, who is only thirteen years old believes she has found love, although she has never experienced it before. On the other hand, Romeo has “loved” before. He was in “love” with Rosaline right before he “loved” Juliet. Romeo does not know the difference between love and lust. Romeo and Juliet’s loved was based off of looks. They have

However, at the party he meets Juliet for the first time, and immediately falls in love with her: “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Romeo, who was in love with Rosaline until a moment ago, completely forgets about her and is now all focused on Juliet. But what is very surprising is not the fact that he is in love with his enemy’s daughter, the astonishing thing is the speed at which he falls in love with her. Soon, in fact, he and Juliet kiss each other: “Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.” However, Romeo’s characteristics to love so deeply Juliet is just a symbol of his lacking the capacity of moderation for intense feelings of all kind. Had Romeo stopped himself from being so deeply caught up by Juliet’s beauty, the tragedy would have never happened.

They only meet at a party (I.v.91) then are married within 15 hours (II.vi.35). In general, a person needs to really know another person to truly love them. For example, if you see someone across the room and thinks they are beautiful. You aren’t in love because you don't know them you just think they are beautiful. Therefore since, Romeo and Juliet just met and were married within 24 hours they don't really know each other so it's unlikely that they are in

Juliet is to be married as “The valiant Paris seeks [her] for his love”(686) and Romeo feels depressed. Juliet doesn’t truly want to be married to Paris and when Romeo comes along and says he loves her, Juliet uses this as an excuse to be ineligible to Paris. At their young ages of 13 and 16 both, don’t truly know love and can’t effectively associate their feelings. The friar feels that"[Romeo’s] love did read by rote, that could not spell'"(707). Romeo is only repeating what he has heard about love, not genuinely understanding what he is saying. He acts impatient and brash, quickly jumping at any chance to say he is in love thinking it will bring him happiness. Moments before he saw Juliet, Romeo claimed that he was deeply in love with Rosaline, although when presented with someone who he deemed as more beautiful he’s questions if, "[his] heart [did] love till now?...For [he feels he has] ne'er saw true beauty till this night" (pg 692). If he had truly been in love with Rosaline then seeing another girl wouldn't have changed his mind, but as he is so young he isn't able to understand that what he felt for both, Juliet and Rosaline was lust. Teenagers act irrationally, based solely on emotion, Romeo and Juliet are too caught up in their feelings to take a step back and consider their

Romeo and Juliet were facing many obstacles during the time they first encountered one another. Their, so-called, “love” sprung as they were both trying to escape from their present problems. Romeo was previously in love with a beautiful girl named Rosaline, although she couldn’t love him back and fulfill Romeo’s sexual desires because she was becoming a nun. He was heartbroken when he found out about this, and thus, he was left inconsolable. Once he discovered that Rosaline was attending the Capulet ball, he decided to sneak in. Minutes into the ball, Romeo sees Juliet and immediately professes his love for her. Juliet also had her own dilemmas to deal with. Some of which included being forced into marrying Paris, a man whom she did not love. Therefore, her love for Romeo was influenced by her reluctance to marry Paris. Prior to Romeo and Juliet’s encounter at the Capulet party, Juliet comments on marriage stating, “It is an honor that I dream not of,” (1.3.68). This quote shows that Juliet had no interest in getting married anytime soon, although when she meets

To introduce, Romeo first had feelings for Rosaline. He even wept for days about her denial of his love. However, soon after Romeo met Juliet and completely

Marriage plays a major role in Romeo and Juliet from the beginning. In Act 1, Scene 2, Paris asks Lord Capulet for his permission to marry Juliet. Lord Capulet tells him to wait because Juliet is still too young and that Paris needs to “woo” Juliet because she would have some say in who she would marry. This was extremely uncommon during the time period. During the Elizabethan Era, girls were often married young, to men chosen by their fathers who they barely knew. Later in that same act, in Scene 3, Lady Capulet asks Juliet if she could see herself marrying Paris, to which Juliet answers that she had never really thought about marriage. “If that thy bent of love be honorable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, By one that I’ll procure to come to thee, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite …” (2.2.143-146) During this scene of the play, Juliet tells Romeo that she will send a messenger to him the next day and that, if he has a real intention of marrying her, he should tell that messenger where and when they would be married. The next day, Romeo goes to Friar Laurence, who, after giving a brief lecture about thinking things through, agrees to marry them. Juliet sends the Nurse to speak with Romeo about the wedding later that day. Upon her return, the Nurse tells Juliet that she is to go to Friar Laurence that night where she will be married to Romeo in secret. They

In the beginning of the play, Romeo is enamored by a girl named Rosaline. With the hope of seeing her, he sneaks into a party hosted by the Capulets. Instead, he meets Juliet and instantly falls in love with her, forgetting all about Rosaline. He tells Friar Laurence about this new interest. Friar Laurence is surprised by this sudden turn of events: “Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?

Love is so much more than what is presented in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where two desperate teens caught by circumstance, are infatuated, not in love. Romeo, before the events of the play, was in love with Rosaline. Juliet, at the beginning of the play, is engaged to Count Paris. Romeo’s love for Rosaline was unrequited, not returned. Juliet does not want to be married to Paris.

When they first met, the thing called love at first sight was there. They danced together, the love can be observed by their actions; the philosophy of behaviorism was in the story. They kissed as if they know what they were doing, even if they were only a teenager. Romeo finds a way to meet Juliet again, he went to Juliet’s house, throw sweet lines; tells her how much he loves Juliet. After that Romeo started to care for Juliet, he thinks of her every time. They got their secret marriage, only Friar and the nurse of Juliet knew about the wedding because Juliet knows that her parents will have an arranged marriage with someone she doesn’t

Juliet says in act 2: “Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. / If that thy bent of love be honorable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow / By one that I’ll procure to come to thee / Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, / And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay / And follow thee my lord throughout the world.” (II, ii, 142-149) Romeo’s and Juliet’s impulsive decision to marry each other after knowing each other for only a few days is not a good decision.

He immediately falls for a girl he barely knows, and is depressed when the girl doesn’t love him back. Later in Act 1, he helps an alliterate Capulet servingman with a list of guests at a masquerade dance, and reads out the name, Rosaline, the girl he’s in love with. Benvolio convinces Romeo to go to the dance, not to talk to Rosaline, but to find more attractive girls that aren’t Rosaline. Romeo goes along, “I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.” (1.3.108), but he doesn’t want to go to find other girls, he just wants to see Rosaline. Even though he seems obsessed with Rosaline, he seems dedicated, showing that he can love someone with all his heart. Later, he sees Juliet and instantly forgets about Rosaline, and falls in love with Juliet. Based on both Romeo and Juliet’s actions and speech, they both aren’t scared of commitment and are dedicated once their heart finds their place. After the flirting and kissing at the party, Juliet has the Nurse go chase after Romeo to find his name. “If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed.” (1.5. 148-149). Juliet was already so in love with Romeo, that if he was married, she would rather die than marry anyone else. Despite how young people married back then, they seem to have moved too fast, but many people say, A relationship isn’t based on how much time you spent together, but it is based on the foundation

Romeo and Juliet were not in love because they were too young and immature to know what love really is. In the play, Romeo had just been through a breakup with his ex-girlfriend Rosaline. During the play he says “...in sadness cousin, I do love a woman,”

Romeo and Juliet are not truly in love but more so in lust, because they are too young to know that true love is, they do not take the advice given from their elders who are older and wiser, and Romeo seems to immediately forget about his love for Rosaline when he meets Rosaline. It is presumptuous to think that Romeo and Juliet are truly in love at their age. Juliet is thirteen and Romeo is fourteen. About fifty five percent of people fall in love between ages fifteen and eighteen.