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Lust In Romeo And Juliet Essay

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Love and Lust If love is a small wave on a peaceful and sunny lake, then lust will be a roaring wave on the sea, billowy and tempestuous. The famous play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a great example of the themes love and lust. The plot of the play is about a family feud and their children's "love" story. Some people think that the most important point of the play is the family feud, but they neglect the important issue of Romeo and Juliet's foolish love. Romeo and Juliet are two young people who are tragically trapped in lust, not love. First of all, Romeo and Juliet are very fickle about love and they often change their minds. Romeo shows that his love is fickle when he changes the object of his love over several days. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is "in love" with a beautiful lady, Rosaline, who promises that she will never marry. Romeo is very sad until he meets another beautiful lady, Juliet, and immediately changes the target of his love. It shows us Romeo is just confused by Juliet's beauty. So what will happen when Romeo meet another person who is much better than Juliet? Of course he will change his mind again. Juliet shows that her love is fickle when she is so hesitant when Romeo wants to …show more content…

They are" fall in love" during the first sight. In the masquerade, they meet each other and Romeo asks a kiss in a chiliast's way. And still at that night, they have an engagement to determine the marriage date. When two people first meet, they can not kwon each other very much, there is no possibility that they are in love. Robert Sternberg thought that there must be three elements that compose true love which are intimacy, passion and commitment. Intimacy means that know each other, but Romeo and Juliet even do not know his/her name! It is too dramatic that they "fall in love" in first sight, it can not be true love in real

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