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Young Love And Its Consequences In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet: A play Regarding Young Love and its Consequences
In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers meet and fall in love too fast, and as a result they fail to realize the truth about what love really is. Love is when two people have truly embraced each other and build a relationship in which they are honest towards dealing with any consequences that may cross their path. Since the two titular characters are too young to make rational decisions regarding love, they fall into conflict with their family's feud because they hide and rush their love which leads to their downfall.
Romeo and Juliet struggle to realize that a love that goes too fast can drive them apart, despite multiple warnings from Friar Lawrence. …show more content…

In Act 3 Scene 5, Romeo and Juliet have spent the night with each other and fear the morning when it arrives, to which Juliet declares; “Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,/Hunting thee hence with hunt’s-up to the day./O, now be gone. More light and light it grows.” (Shakespeare 3.5. 33-35). Romeo and Juliet do not hesitate to leave each other as they are in a hurry because the morning has arrived, meaning if Romeo is found he will be killed for his crime. This shows that they hide their love from the rest of society instead of acting out of true love and deciding to be honest and be exiled together. In the same scene when Juliet is told that she will have to marry Paris she proclaims; “I will not marry yet. And when I do, I swear/It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,/Rather than Paris.”(Shakespeare 3.5 .121-123). Juliet refuses to be married so quickly to a man she does not love by declaring she would rather marry Romeo who she pretends to hate. This shows that Juliet hides her love for Romeo from her family in fear of the consequences, hence their love for each other is not true love as they fail to be honest and embrace their love instead of hiding it in shame. Romeo and Juliet’s relationship only shows that their love for eachother is not true love because they are not candid and do not accept the consequences a relationship would bring as a mature couple

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