William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Infatuation or Love?

“My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white. I hear a knocking at the south entry. Retire we to our chamber; a little water clears us of this deed. How easy is it then! Your constancy hath left you unattended”. (Act 2 Scene 2, Lines 67-72)

Is love at first sight real? Romeo and Juliet fall in love at a Capulet party, despite having a family rivalry. In Romeo and Juliet, the couple is infatuated.

Romeo becomes convinced that Juliet is the most beautiful creature he has ever seen and ever will see. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” (I, 5, 57-58). Romeo says that his heart has never loved before that moment and that his eyes confirm that Juliet is truly a beauty to be sought. This quote shows how Romeo quickly forgets his lovesickness for Rosaline and falls deeply in love with Juliet. He says that he has never loved before showing that by fate directing Romeo to the party and Juliet to his heart, that fate brings Romeo and Juliet together.

Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.”-William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act III, Sc.IIX, 1697

The tale of Romeo and Juliet tells a tragic story of a pair of star crossed lovers. But were Romeo and Juliet really in love? This essay will investigate the play of Romeo and Juliet in order to see if love at first sight was truly possible with this iconic pair.

(Act 3 Page 86) “ through helps sobs: It is my third wife, sir I never had no wife that be so taken with books and thought to find the cause of it…”

(Act II, Scene i, Line 11-12). He is pretty much saying

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

Romeo acts impulsively and rarely thinks a situation through. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Shakespeare 393). Romeo starts out in love with a girl named Rosaline. However, he falls head over heels for Juliet as soon as he sets eyes on her.

To the human race, emotions and feeling are very powerful and often have a large effect on humans, which can have a negative or positive effect. Infatuation and love is one of the larger ones, as all ages and types of people, experience confusion, pain and problems. This can be most problematic for adolescences as it could be their first experience with infatuation and not know how to deal with it; which makes it important that they have someone that will support them or a confidant. The play Romeo and Juliet, focuses on the themes of the forcefulness of love and infatuation and the positive and negative effects it can have. In Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', the characters of the Nurse, Friar Lawrence and Romeo and Juliet, all lead to

However, he believes that the reward of being with Juliet, the girl he loves, outweighs the risk, even when one of those risks is him being killed. After Romeo’s banishment when Juliet asks him to stay with her because she believes that certain signs of the

Romeo ends up forgetting about Rosaline during the party when dancing with a girl named Juliet. Romeo’s love for Juliet should be no different from his love for Rosaline since Romeo had instantly fell in love with Juliet as he did with Rosaline. Romeo arrives to talk to Juliet in the balcony scene after the party, and Juliet tells Romeo “My only love sprung from my only hate!... Prodigious birth of love it is to me / That I must love a loathed enemy” (1.5.155).

That you should here repent you’. After his silly prologue the court start to make comments about his punctuation he puts the full stops in the wrong places Hipployta says that he is like a child on a recorder act 5 scene 1 lines 122-123. All of this adds to the humour.

“Then to the wood will he to-morrow night. Pursue her; and for this intelligence. If I have thanks, it is a dear expense. But herein mean I to enrich my pain.” (Act 1, scene 1)

Moreover, he adds on saying Mrs. Pearce, “… if she gives you any trouble, wallop her.” (Act II, 37). He also recommends Mrs. Pearce to; “put her in the dustbin” when she says that she has no room for