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It may seem that Romeo and Juliet are perfect for each other, and that they are going to spend the rest of their lives together, but one can argue otherwise. When Romeo meets Juliet for the first time he describes his feelings as, " But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the east and Juliet is the sun." ( page 69, Line 2-3) This shows that instantly Romeo has fallen in love with Juliet. Romeo has not even known Juliet for more than a minute but he had already described her as the " East sun". The meaning of love has changed since Shakespeare wrote this play. Back then, children at ages of 13 would fall in love and get married. Juliet claims that she has fallen in love with Romeo and said, " Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow."( Page 79, line 151) Juliet said that she wants to get married to Romeo tomorrow, only meeting him no more than an hour ago, This quote also shows that back in the Shakespearean era, the meaning of love and marriage was different than modern day. Since the shakespearean time, the meaning of love has changed. Back then, if someone thought the other person was pretty, and vice versa, they would get married the next day. Today, people take longer than a half hour to find out there in love. In the Shakespearean era, Romeo and Juliet are in love. But in modern day, they are only at the honeymoon stage,
Romeo and Juliet are not truly in love, they are not because they have simply not known each other long enough to truly know one another, and both of them are only teenagers. Romeo and Juliet have only known one another for twelve hours maximum. They have no idea who they are marrying, and they only know each other’s names. Arguably, the two are only getting married because of their good looks: “So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (89 Line 71-72). Meaning that they do not love each other for their personalities or who they are as a person, they only love one another because they find each other attractive. Therefore, their love is only skin-deep, and they do not love with their hearts but with their eyes. It could very well turn out that Romeo and Juliet get married, get to know each other and end up hating one another. In addition, the two are only teenagers, thirteen and sixteen. Teenagers often make rushed, not thought out, and just stupid decisions. Romeo and Juliet are not facing the reality of the situation, and are rushing everything. They believe that they are in love, but they are not. Both of them need instant gratification but they need to realize that what they are doing is not in either or their best interests. Romeo and Juliet are both just so young and immature, especially Juliet, who is only thirteen: “For the gentlewomen is young; and therefore, if you [Romeo] should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewomen, and very weak dealing” (101 Lines 170-174). The Nurse included thinks that they are too young to get married and that they are making an unwise decision. The only reason why she agreed was because she knew it would make Juliet happy. Although, she fails to realize that possibly in just a few months when Juliet gets to know Romeo better Juliet will end up hating him but by then they are already married and it will become a lot more difficult, if not impossible to break up.
Romeo and Juliet are not truly in love, they are loving for the sake of loving without realizing the consequences. When talking with her mother about marrying Paris, Juliet says, "I'll look to like, if looking liking move./ But no more deep will I endart mine eye/ Than your consent gives strength to make it fly" (41). Lady Capulet wishes for Juliet to marry the rich Paris, but Juliet desires the opposite. Juliet isn't fond of Paris and she isn't willing to spend the rest of her life with him. This could be because they aren't alike due to their large age difference. Juliet wants to marry Romeo to prevent her marriage with Paris as well as the fact that they are more similar due to their close distance in age. Although Juliet most likely knows that she's not in love, Romeo believes that he is in love, even though he isn't. Friar Lawrence tells him, "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" (89). Just last night, Romeo was weeping over Rosaline, who he thought he loved. Now he is obsessed with Juliet, and he already wants to get married. Friar Lawrence knows that Romeo isn't actually in love, he says that Romeo is just in love with what he sees. Romeo isn't actually in love, he just loves the beauty of Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet are truly in love throughout the story. Romeo meets Juliet at a party and instantly falls in love with her. She also instantly falls in love with him and even though he is a Montague and she is a Capulet which are feuding households they still love each other . When Romeo is describing her he says "As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear"(53) he shows how he feels about her and how she is beautiful. When in love you feel an attraction to the other and clearly he is expressing this by saying how rare her beauty is and comparing her to a jewel. Also when he is exhibiting some questionable behavior outside her room Romeo describes her saying "O'speak again, bright angel, for thou art/As glorious to this night, being o'er my head,/As is a winged messenger of heaven"(71). Again he can only compare her to unhuman things because he thinks so highly of her and she feels the same toward him. Then after only a few hours of knowing each other they decide to get married. When people get married they are in love. With two people from opposite feuding households to think of each other in this way and wanting to get married without caring what people think it is clear they are in love.
It seems as if Romeo loves to love while Juliet loves Romeo therefore their love is not real. Romeo does not understand what true love is, he loves for beauty not for the kind of person someone truly is. Romeo only really talks about how Juliet looks not how she acts saying, “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! / It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear / … Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! / For I never saw true beauty till this night,” (53). He is saying how Juliet looked amazing, but he never states anything further then beauty. Another example of how Romeo loves to love is just a few days ago when he used to love Rosaline and said that he would never fall in love again. When Romeo is asking Friar Lawrence to marry them the Friar brings up a good point by saying, “The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears, / Thy old groans yet ringing in mine ancient ears. / Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit / Of an old tear that is not washed off yet,” (89). He is pretty much saying that it was just a day ago that Romeo was complaining about Rosaline to him and crying that she did not return his love. Romeo does not understand or know what true love is. On the other hand, Juliet believes she is in love with “Romeo, O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?” (33). Juliet wants to be with Romeo and is in love with him, and truly has never felt this way besides Romeo so in her mind Romeo is her true love. Romeo does not share the same feeling for her because he simply just loves to love. Romeo is a lover of love, while Juliet is a lover of Romeo. Romeo is merely just a boy looking for love, as with Juliet but she actually is in love with him. In the end Romeo is not in love with Juliet but rather in love with love. Juliet is in love with Romeo but it seems she will eventually see Romeo’s flaws in the future.
Many people think they are in love when they are really not in love. Romeo and Juliet have known each other for less than a day and they both believe that they are in love. Romeo was truly in love with Rosaline but in less than a day, he was in love with Juliet. It is not that easy to get over someone with whom one is truly in love and fall right back into love. Friar Lawrence recognizes how quickly Romeo has gotten over Rosaline and states that “here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit/ Of an old tear that is not washed off yet” (pg. 89 lines 79-80). The Friar is trying to tell Romeo that he can still see the stains of dried tears from when Romeo was crying over Rosaline. He wants to warn Romeo that true love cannot be that fast. In addition, the Friar understands how young men only love for looks and not for who the girl really is. When the Friar is talking to himself and thinking about love, he says “young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (pg. 89 lines 71-72). Romeo claims he loves Juliet but in reality, he only loves her for her beauty. He has known her for less than a day and claims he loves everything about her. True love is really about how a person acts and not how beautiful they are and it takes time to get to know a person and Romeo does not really know Juliet.
In the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, two young teenagers, Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight. Or at least they think they do. Romeo is a lover, he falls in love, then whines about it, then falls in love again, then whines about it. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party, and as soon as they see each other, fall in love. Later that night, on Juliet's balcony they decide to get married. Romeo thinks he's crazy in love, but as Friar Lawrence points out the next day; "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" (Act 2 Scene 3 line 71-72). At the dinner where Romeo and Juliet had met, originally, Romeo had been in love with Rosaline, even though he had never talked to her before. Here, the Friar is saying how when men see a beautiful girl, they might be in love with her beauty, not her personality. When Romeo sees Juliet he's like; "It is the East, and Juliet is the sun" (Act 2 Scene 2 line 3). Romeo describes how beautiful Juliet is, but he never describes what her personality is like, henceforth, he only loves her because of her looks. Even worse, a half an hour before he met Juliet, he thought Rosaline was beautiful, and she "is too fair" (Act 1 scene 1 line 229). Romeo switched from one love of his life to another in the course of 20 minutes, so his love for Juliet really cannot be real since it never had any time to grow.
Romeo and Juliet are not truly in love because they don’t know what love really is. In the beginning of the book Benvolio and Romeo were planning on picking up girls at a feast. Benvolio said to Romeo, “At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s/ Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou loves”(act.1 sc. 3 lines 89-90). Romeo claimed to “love” Rosaline until he saw Juliet. If Romeo can fall in love so quickly, who’s to say he wont see another attractive girl and fall “in love” with that girl. If someone truly falls in love with someone, they wouldn’t change their mind so quickly. Another example of how they aren’t truly in love is because they barely know each other. Juliet said to Romeo, “My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words/ Of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound”(Act 2. Sc. 2 lines 63-64). What Juliet mean is that she has not even heard Romeo say one hundred words yet she claims to love him. It is very hard to fall in love with someone when they barely know him or her.
Romeo and Juliet, The Question is a simple one: are they TRULY in love? But unfortunately the answer could not be more complex. In order to come to a conclusion you must first look at the definition: “An extraordinary or unusual positive feeling toward, person, or event” When given that definition the answer is yes they are in love. To argue otherwise would be to disagree with the English language. Their love is an extraordinary occurrence and this is shown when Romeo spots Juliet after the party “But soft , what light though yonder window breaks?/ It is the east and Juliet is the sun”(69 L.2-3) That supports that Romeo has the unusual feelings toward a person: Juliet and they are positive. Romeo and Juliet claim to be in love from the moment they meet, but who can say that this is not true? In fact even Juliet’s nurse is willing to help the young couple showing her support as well as helping to show the audience that this is not just a childish love but is true and real. Romeo and Juliet instantly become a couple which is not a bad thing even though it is unusual. There is nothing anywhere in the whole play as far as we have read to suggest that either of them are not actually in love with each other. Also they only speak in sonnets when the love is true and in multiple instances they speak to each other in sonnets. On pages 61, 69, and 77 they speak to each other using sonnets which signify love. These are only a few instances of them talking in sonnets. Romeo and Juliet are truly in love with each other Which is helped by the definition of what love is and what love means to them.
Romeo and Juliet are not truly in love because their decision to get married was a spur of the moment reaction. Romeo doesn’t truly love Juliet because he has fallen in love with more than one girl. He was originally in love with Rosaline before he went to the party and saw Juliet. Before he goes to the party to see Rosaline, his friends are trying to convince him to forget her and fall in love with another girl who actually knows who he is. When Romeo says “I have a soul of lead/So stakes me to the ground I cannot move,” he means that there is no chance that he can forget such a lady as Rosaline (Act 1, Scene 4, lines 15-16). Then, within five minutes of being at the party, he sees Juliet and falls in love with her. When he meets Juliet, he immediately talks about marrying her. Juliet, on the other hand, falls in love with Romeo because he is her age, handsome, and if she loves him she doesn’t have to marry Paris. When Juliet meets Romeo, she says “Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, / which mannerly devotion shows in this/ For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, / And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss, (Act 1, Scene 5, lines 108-111). Juliet flirts with Romeo because she knows that if he is an eligible gentleman, he will be able to get him out of marrying Paris. When she finds out that he is Montague, she realizes that marrying Romeo would allow her to become ineligible to marry Paris and therefore be happy. Juliet thinks she is in love with Romeo because he is the solution to all her problems at the moment. Romeo and Juliet believe they love each other because they are both the answer to the others’ problems.
Romeo and Juliet are not truly in love because prior to Romeo being in love with Juliet, he thought he was in love with Rosaline and Romeo just likes the way Juliet looks; he doesn’t know her enough to love her. Before he met Juliet, Romeo thought he was in love with Rosaline. He was so convinced that she was the most beautiful thing that ever walked that Earth. When Romeo and Benvolio are talking about Romeo’s rejection from Rosaline, Benvolio addresses that there are many other beautiful women in Verona to which Romeo replies “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun/ Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun” (33 Lines 99-100). Romeo thought that Rosaline was the most beautiful human being that ever lived. He thought there was no one better than her on the Earth. He thought this seconds before he met Juliet. When Romeo met Juliet and they decided to get married Romeo went to his good friend Friar Lawrence. Romeo asked if he would conduct his wedding. The friar assumed that Romeo wanted to get married to Rosaline, to this Romeo responded, “With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No. / I have forgot that name’s woe” (87 Lines 48- 49). Romeo quickly forgot about the woman he thought he loved when another woman caught his attention. If Romeo acted this way with Rosaline it would not be extraordinary if he acted this way toward Juliet. In addition to Romeo loving Rosaline seconds before meeting Juliet, Romeo only likes the way Juliet looks. Romeo does not care about the person Juliet really is. He only cares about her appearance. When Romeo told Friar Lawrence, his very trusted friend, about getting married to Juliet, his response was “Young men’s love then lies/Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes” (89 Lines 71-72). The friar knows Romeo very well and he knows that Romeo does not love Juliet. Romeo is only attracted to what he sees when he looks at Juliet, he does not care about what kind of person she is, proving that Romeo and Juliet are not in love.
Romeo and Juliet are in love because they speak in a sonnet together and and Juliet would rather marry Romeo than Paris. At the party when Romeo and Juliet first meet they speak in a sonnet together (57). In the book Shakespeare has characters speak in rhyme verse while they are talking about love. The fact that they are speaking in a sonnet together must mean they are deeply in love with each other. They speaking in a sonnet the first time the ever meet must mean that they are truly in love at first sight. In addition Juliet chooses Romeo even though Paris who the nurse describes as "a man of wax" wants to marry her (39). Despite Paris being rich and good looking Juliet still wants to marry Romeo. Also Juliet's family approves of her marrying Paris. They would disapprove of her marrying Romeo if they found out. They still want to get married despite all of the reasons not to because of their love. They would not do this unless they were truly in love.
Young love is very passionate, and appears to extend beyond the reaches of all humanly needs, attaching two people into a intimate embrace. But as clouding as love itself, the relationship of youth is ambiguous and obscure as life itself. In constant confusion between lust and love, the true motive of such lovers is in constant flux, and conclusively indefinable by its random nature. In the case of the star crossed lovers: Romeo, and Juliet, the effect is merely exemplified, with massive hyperbole and exaggeration, as in the style of Shakespeare in satire of young love. The phrases of relationships that Romeo and Juliet go through pass by extraordinarily quick, with the commonplace “love at first sight” interaction when they first meet. They then proceed to make vows to each other in balcony scene, and Romeo proceeds to make the statement ‘O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?’ (Page 77, Line 132). At first glance, this line appears to be a wistful phrase of desire to maintain company with his lover, but satisfaction may appear in other, more primal forms of pleasure. In this case, Romeo is displaying the characteristics of a lustful relationship, a half of young love that is undeniably and unfortunately fundamental in its nature. In this situation, Romeo does not truly love Juliet, for he is lusting after her and is not thinking about anything else in their relationship, for the brief time it has been kindled. Lust is commonly confused with love, and in this case, it is easy to confuse the two, especially between these two lovers. Friar Lawrence later points out this when he is confronting Romeo about his newfound relationship with Juliet. Remembering Romeo’s earlier moping about Rosaline, he states ‘So soon forsaken? Young men love then lies-Not truly in their hearts, but with their eyes.’ (Page 89, Line 71-72). This continues to illustrate the type of relationship that Romeo and Juliet share, as even other characters acknowledge that their love is not true, but doting. If other characters can even acknowledge that this relationship is mainly lust, that it is quite obvious than it is not true love. But lust blinds their viewpoint, and therefore, that is why they cannot differentiate from love and lust. With all the evidence shown, it is conclusive that Romeo and Juliet star crossed love is not true love, but rather teenage passion and it is a passion is merely intense lust. In the modern relationship, they would simply be in the honeymoon phase, and if given proper time, the base would eventually evaporate and disappear all together.
In the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet are under the impression that they are in love, even though they truly aren't. Neither one of them actually knows the other, and they barely said anything to each other before they made their decision to get married. Therefore, their love was based purely on how they looked. Also, Romeo had been head over heels for Rosaline the day before. When he decides to go the party, he insists that nobody could match Rosaline: "One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun/Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun" (30 lines 99-100). Romeo compares Rosaline to fire, and the sun, and also says that he has never seen a girl that could match her. Romeo had never even really spoken to Rosaline, so none of his compliments have anything to do with her personality. They are all about her looks, because that is all love means to him. The instant Romeo arrives at the party, he forgets all about his love for Rosaline. He sees Julies and speaks about her beauty, saying that she is a standout from all the other girls: "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!/It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night/As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear-/Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear" (53 lines 51-54). Even though Romeo had just compared Rosaline to fire, he switches that description over to Juliet. He now says that Juliet is the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, not Rosaline. Also, this entire description was before Romeo had spoken a single word to Juliet, or seen her up close. This just shows that since Romeo had declared his love for Juliet before even speaking to her, nothing he claims is love is real, because he is just a teenage boy, and all he cares about is looks.
Love is a very complicated thing. Some say that there is love at first sight, but Romeo and Juliet (who Shakespeare said this happened to) are not truly in love. For example, in the beginning of the novel when Romeo was talking to Benvolio about his love for Rosaline, he says that he is, “Out of her favor where I am in love,” (page 21 line 173). In this quote, Romeo is confessing his love for Rosaline. He is saying that even though he knows that she doesn’t love him back, he still cannot get over her. She is the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, and he has never been so in love. Yet later in the book, he sees Juliet and says that she is the prettiest girl he has ever seen and instantly falls in love with her. He falls in love very easily, and there is a chance that he will fall in love with the next beautiful girl he sees. The only reason that he loves Juliet is for her looks. Later, when Juliet is talking to Romeo about their love, she says, “Is it too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,” (page 77 line 125). In this quote, Juliet is ver confused about her love for Romeo. Have they moved too quickly? Do they know enough about each other? There is the chance that they will find information about each other that they don’t like, which could tear their relationship apart. If either one of them finds out a piece of information that they do not like about one another, they could easily not love each other anymore. If secrets are being kept, there is always the chance that they could be hurt by it, causing serious heart break.
Even though Romeo and Juliet do not see any flaws at all in their relationship, they are not truly in love. As we have seen countless times in stories such as Feed, you do not love someone because of their best parts, but you love them despite their bad parts. Romeo does not know any of Juliet's flaws the only things he sees in her is the good parts. This is a major problem because upon seeing her all he can think is, "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the east and Juliet is the sun" (69). Because Romeo is so blinded by Juliet's beauty he is unable to consider all of the problems he would have if he was in a relationship with her. This shows how at this point in the story Romeo is not in love with Juliet because he does not know enough about her bad qualities. In addition to Romeo not knowing enough about Juliet’s bad qualities he is also not in love because he had been deeply in love with Rosaline the day before and he was devastated with the fact that she was not in love with him. Because it is so soon after Romeo has been in love with Rosaline his love for Juliet could possibly be a way to compensate with the fact that Rosaline doesn’t love him. Friar Lawrence points this out as well as the fact that Romeo probably only loves Juliet for her looks when he says, "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" (89). This quote shows how Romeo’s love for Juliet is not true because he only loves her for her looks and his judgement of Juliet is blinded by his recent love for Rosaline. This also shows that Friar Lawrence who is a very wise man does not approve of this relationship.
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