Romeo And Juliet Love At First Sight

Romeo is portrayed as an emotional and reckless character. His friend Mercutio and Fr. Lawrence comment on Romeo’s fickle attitude when he immediately falls in love with Juliet completely forgetting about Rosaline, his first love. Romeo quotes,” Did my heart love until now? Foreswear it sight, for I never saw true beauty until this night”. His love for Rosaline was superficial. Juliet transforms Romeo’s immature and erotic infatuation to true and constant love. After meeting Juliet he matures very quickly. Maybe Romeo’s love for Juliet is so intense because unlike Rosaline, Juliet reciprocates his

Moreover, Romeo through his infatuation with Rosaline learned valuable lessons that help him come to appreciate and understand the feelings he experiences with Juliet. Romeo felt rejection, sorrow, and misery from his infatuation with Rosaline which is seen when he is talking to Benvolio, “In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman” this particular quote shows the sadness or sorrow he feels from the feelings for Rosaline (1.1.201). Also when he says “She hath forsworn to love”, the words Romeo speaks allow it to be inferred that his feelings for her have been rejected (1.1.220). “At the opening of the play [Romeo] is maundering about like an erotic woman novelist, sighing and groaning because Rosaline will not listen to his tenders of affection” revealing that Romeo’s love was rejected and was upset because of this, allowing him to learn these feelings and what it is like to be rejected by the one he had feelings for (Northwood 19). Due to having felt these emotions from his infatuation, when he finds his love for Juliet and receives love and acceptance from her. Since he went so long, feeling sorrow and rejection when he finally finds Juliet, he can fully appreciate the love and acceptance he is given which intensifies his love for her and does the opposite of weakening the credibility of his love. Through his infatuation with Rosaline, he was able to grow as a person and become able to fully commit to his love for Juliet.

Similarly, Romeo forgets all about how he loved Rosaline and transitions into “loving” Juliet at the sight of her. Romeo mistaking love for lust is voiced by Romeo himself when he witnesses Juliet at the Capulet’s feast, he asks himself, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night” (I.v.51-60). When Romeo asks if his “heart” loved, he refers to his eyes. Romeo’s reference to beauty is parallel to his feelings of love towards Juliet only with the recognition of beauty or infatuation. Also, Romeo forgets all about his love for Rosaline the exact second sees Juliet, which can conclude he was never really in love to begin with; therefore, proving Romeo’s desire for Juliet is nothing more than meaningless infatuation. Furthermore, Friar Laurence tells Romeo that his sudden change of heart to move on from Rosaline means his desire towards her lies in his eyes rather than his heart. At the time of these events Juliet is thirteen years old and Romeo is eighteen years old showing that they are just teenagers. Although, teenagers do not take love seriously and do not have a full metal grasp of what love

The story of Romeo and Juliet is one of love and terrible tragedy. Many people have argued if it was actually love that they were experiencing, or if it was just a physical attraction. The article, “Love At First Sight“ by Elizabeth Bernstein, provides facts that prove Romeo and Juliet were not in love, but experiencing strong infatuation with each other.

Friar Lawrence has continuously earned our admiration and regard by aiding us in our times of need. He has married two young lovers, given invaluable advice, and been the voice of reason whenever we have needed him. When Romeo, one of the two young lovers lost on that fateful day, is first in love with Juliet, his eventual bride, right after declaring his love for another woman, Rosaline, Friar Lawrence tells him, “[…] Young men’s love then lies/not truly in their hearts but in their eyes” (89). Ever the valuable, trusted source of reason, Friar Lawrence points out Romeo’s fickleness and how this is most likely not true love based on logic.

At first Friar Lawrence is surprised at how quickly Romeo has fallen out of love with Rosaline and in love with

Friar knew their relationship was premature and should not tamper with it. They were children who did not know what love was, they moved to quickly without thinking about what they were doing and how it would affect others. In act two scene six, Friar said to Romeo, “These violent delights have violent ends. Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately: long love doth so, too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” This one of many warnings Friar Laurence gave to Romeo before the marriage. He knew Romeo loved with his eyes and not his heart, they both knew that moving into love too fast was as bad as moving into love too late. Second thoughts were approaching everyone in that

Friar Lawrence is shocked to know that Romeo is in love with someone after he was so passionate about another girl the day before. At first, he does not agree to marry them but does it anyway with a hidden agenda of fixing the feud. Friar Laurence proclaims, "Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, / So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes." (2.3.66-69). Friar Laurence soon sees how passionate they are and agree to help them reunite towards the end. The other half of this power couple, Juliet rebels against her family when she shares her strong disagreement about getting married to Paris. Her family threatens to disown her, but she feels her commitment and love for Romeo is something worth fighting for.

This causes an uprising of events that leads to the great downfall of the play. At first, Friar Lawrence is startled at Romeo’s change of heart because he goes from loving Rosaline to loving Juliet so quickly. Friar eventually agrees to wed the two, stating “For this alliance may...turn your households' rancor to pure love” (2.3.91-92). Friar hopes that this marriage will dissolve the hatred that exists between the two families, and change the hate into love. Romeo’s rashness, along with his hormones, lead’s him down a dark road, for this event adds reasoning

Friar Lawrence is a very wise guy. He challenges Romeo when he switches the focus of his affection from Rosaline to Juliet. “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 does not believe that Romeo's love for Juliet is authentic. He thinks it is meaningless because it is so changeable. Just days ago, Romeo was crying his eyes out to Friar Lawrence about Rosaline. Friar makes a convincing argument that Romeo's love for Juliet could be nothing more than a small crush.

What love at first sight is in the modern day and the 1500's from a perspective of a teenager, written by Imogen Hulsman-Benson.

After meeting Juliet the night before, Romeo tells the friar about his sudden change of heart, confessing that “my heart’s dear love is set/ On the fair daughter of rich Capulet” (Shakespeare 2.3.58-59). Mindful that impulsive teenager was in love with Rosaline the day before, the wise friar scolds him, insisting that “Young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (Shakespeare 2.3.67-68). The sagacity of Friar Lawrence is conspicuous as he is immediately dubious about the authenticity of the hasty relationship. Recognizing the spontaneity and recklessness of the relationship, he warns the impetuous teenagers that “these violent delights have violent ends” (Shakespeare 2.6.9) and advises them to “love moderately: long love doth so;/ Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (Shakespeare 2.6.14-15). Nevertheless, he goes against his conscientiousness and grants Romeo’s wish to be married to Juliet, only because he hopes that “this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancor to pure love” (Shakespeare 2.3.91-92). Friar Lawrence’s sole purpose of marrying Romeo and Juliet was to mend the animosity between the two families. Unbeknownst to the unsuspecting friar, the lovers were destined to die and his disregard to the haste of the relationship in marrying the couple only caused further suffering. In his own words, Friar Lawrence concludes that

Friar Lawrence thinks that the slow love come the better. Friar Lawrence begins to tell Romeo and Juliet that there is no need to rush love when Friar Lawrence says: “Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (2.6.15). Friar Lawrence thinks that the great advice will allow Romeo and Juliet to get married and be in love forever. Instead he does not realize that the opposite could happen and their lives would be ended forever. By trying to help Romeo and Juliet with their romantic life, he does just the opposite.

Friar Lawrence reveals major qualities about Romeo, including his obsessive and foolish behavior. Friar Lawrence begins chastising Romeo for being over Rosaline, a woman that did not return Romeo’s love, and then falling for Juliet so quickly. Romeo then remarks that the Friar had usually scolded him for loving Rosaline, to which the Friar replies, “for doting, not love, pupil mine”(II.iii.87). Friar Lawrence is admonishing Romeo for his immature infatuation with Rosaline. By doing this, it is clear that Romeo was obsessive over his love for Rosaline. After killing Tybalt, the Prince declares Romeo’s banishment and Romeo goes crying to the Friar claiming that death would be a better punishment than banishment. The Friar responds to this by saying, “O deadly sin, O rude unthankfulness!...This is dear mercy, and

Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Lancelot and Guinevere, and Paris and Helena are some of the best and most know love stories of all time. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare stands far above all of these, and is definitely the greatest love story ever written. This play is renowned for its passion and is one of the most viewed plays ever, being republished twice in Shakespeare's lifetime. This story also contains several different kinds of love.