Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

Rabbi David Wolpe from time.com says that, “Yes, you can love things that do not love you back… but the love of other people is directional… you don't’ just love, but you love at someone” (Rabbi David Wolpe 6). Romeo is loving the idea of loving Juliet not Juliet herself. He only loves her looks as he has told her many times before. You cannot know everything about someone by a couple of hours together. All that Juliet talks about in their short time together is wanting to get married to Romeo and losing her virginity. So, Romeo only likes the idea of love and Juliet only has lust towards

Love is an emotion many-if not all- desire for in their life, but should a person’s past flings call that love into question? Romeo had strong feelings for two different people in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, one being Rosaline and the other being Juliet. Romeo’s feelings for Rosaline were more of an infatuation than love, but this does not weaken the credibility of his love of Juliet. There are three reasons that must be taken into account when talking about the connection between his infatuation with Rosaline and his love for Juliet. Many people have infatuations at some point in their lives before they meet someone they truly love, he learns many things from his infatuation that help to deepen his

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.

Romeo and Juliet and the book Night are different, and also the same in many ways. There are a few obvious reasons they are similar and reasons they aren't. Here is a few different ways they were different.

They feel lust towards each other which can be proven through the way they first met. The night Romeo and Juliet first met, Romeo forgot all about his affections for Rosaline the moment he laid his eyes on Juliet at the masquerade. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For

In 'Romeo and Juliet', Shakespeare portrays different aspects and types of love in many ways. The obvious love is the fateful love between Romeo and Juliet although the play also displays platonic love, maternal love and aspects of adolescent love.

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 at the beginning of the play doesn't have the most level-headed understand of what real love is and as an example at the beginning of the play he has "fallen in love" with Rosaline and proclaimed that she is the perfect example of a women. Then later on completely forgets about her after seeing Juliet. This gives the reader the sense that Romeo is not very deep in his feelings for women and has a more superficial idea of what love is. Throughout the play though Shakespeare was able to convey how Romeo has matured in his attitude toward love from a shallow desire to a profound and intense passion. His fidelity toward Juliet is quite abstract in the sense that he loves her enough to commit suicide because he feels that he is not able to continue his lie without her which is a demonstration of his faithfulness and loyalty to her. In Romeo and Juliet Romeo is driven by his emotions a lot of the time when making decisions. Examples of him doing this are that because of anger compels him to kill Tybalt in a duel to avenge to death of his friend and despair causes him to take his own life upon hearing of Juliet's death. He also is driven many times by his love for Juliet. Love forces him to make the reckless decision to sneak into the garden of his enemy's daughter and risk death only to catch a glimpse of her. These intense depths of feeing are what drive the character in this story

Romeo's “love” for Juliet and vice versa is not true love. For Romeo the “love” he feels for Juliet is not true, it is his heartbroken heart manifesting itself after he is rejected by Rosalin. In fact the only reason he goes to the party where he meets Juliet is because he thinks that Rosalin might be there. This quote from

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

Right after Rosaline breaks up with Romeo to become a priest, Romeo spots Juliet, and is attracted to her. Today, many teenagers go through relationships and breakups before they marry, but that was not the case many years ago. In Shakespeare's time it was common to marry your first love. Many couples now wait at least a year before deciding to marry, but back in Shakespeare’s time it wasn’t uncommon to marry someone after a few dates. (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sticky-bonds/200906/teenagers-in-love). There is a simple explanation for this; Romeo was in love with Juliet so much that he could not wait any longer to marry. When Roseline dumped Romeo, Romeo was in pain. But when Juliet came along he no longer felt that pain. In Stanford University, researchers tested how seeing a loved one can reduce anothers pain. The scientists strapped a heated probe to the palm of fifteen college students, who said that they were in love. “Looking at a picture of a loved one reduced moderate pain by about 40 percent and eased severe pain by 10-15 percent” ((http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/love-and-pain-relief/). So seeing Juliet reduced Romeo’s heart

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

Love can be described as many things, like the feeling you get in your stomach when you see the person you like or even opening the fridge to see that your mom went food shopping, the possibilities are endless but there's one thing for sure, that Romeo and Juliet were not truly in love. The article “Star-Crossed Something-or-Others” by Eric Lamay disagreed with my point. The college professor thinks that Romeo and Juliet’s love was true even though there was “more play than work involved.” I do not believe that Romeo and Juliet’s love was true because true love is built overtime and requires responsibilities, they were only fixated on each other's appearances, and they were both trying to escape from something they hoped to never face.

The two versions of Romeo and Juliet by Zeffirelli and Luhrmann are similar in many ways. Both of the versions have similar beginnings, how Zeffirelli has the two groups get into a fight just because they could get under each other’s skin. Zeffirelli spit in front of the Montagues from the Capulets, Luhrmann starts an argument from the Capulets to the Montague at a gas station just because they could. Next, both texts get the same message across. Zeffirelli starts with simple words that show the Capulets think the are the best and in turn start a fight.

There were many elements about the characters and setting in midsummers night dream and Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare that show the true meaning of love. Both plays have distinct lovers such as Hermia and Lysander, and Romeo and Juliet, and both plays have many similarities. They both have many conflicts between the two “couples” that add many tragic events that lead to the end, and many of those could have been changed to change the ending. One major event that changed the ending tremendously were the potions, Puck accidentally pouring the love potion into Lysander eyes and falling in love with Helena. Then, juliet faking a death for 48 hours and Romeo getting the horrible news which leads him to killing himself.