Romeo and Juliet
Teenagers can fall in love, but in order for this to be possible both partners must have a certain level of maturity. Many times teenagers mistake love for lust and they want to be in love in order feel mature. Love can change and will likely grow as us as humans grow. As children people have experienced love with their parents, pets and family. As everyone matures their definition of love may change and especially, romantically. Love is always being comfortable, and feeling important no matter the situation. Romeo and Juliet show the exact opposite in the play.
Often times as children and teenagers, it is more common to love your parents, friends and family rather than being in love romantically. This is because you spend
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While growing up, the idea of being in love marks maturity. Therefore, being in love is considered common and teenagers will try to fit social stereotypes such as this. Usually they do not actually understand love and believe lust is similar. While teenagers often say they are in love it is usually because they are attached to the idea and they will do anything to say they are in love. Realistically, teenagers are usually not in love while they may hope to be. Romeo and Juliet seem to want to grow up faster than they are actually ready to because that was considered normal in this time period. While they are moving very quickly they aren’t actually thinking about their actions. This causes actions to take over for their better judgement and therefore cannot think about what they actually want in the moment. “Happily met, my lady and my wife! That may be, sir, when I may be a wife. That ‘may be’ must be love, on Thursday next.” (IV, i, 18) This quote shows how when Paris decides he wants to get married to Juliet he tries to get it done so quickly. It is not possibly love because him and Juliet haven’t had time for love to develop and do not agree with their feelings towards each other. This is obvious because Juliet was already married to Romeo and Paris had no idea. This is hard to actually be in love when they are so sex crazed. This also shows how Juliet does not feel the same way towards Paris and they would not be in love if Juliet does not agree with …show more content…
Although this is a love story is is confusing where the true love occurs. This is shown in III, ii, 7 “Leap to these arms, untalked of and unseen: Lovers can see to do their amorous rites” This quote shows how Romeo and Juliet care more about physical attraction rather than personalities. This in fact is not love but more so lust. This quote shows how eager Juliet is to be in love and cannot wait to consummate the marriage with Romeo. Their eagerness shows the immaturity between the couple and wanting to have sex more than anything
This is exactly how Romeo behaves. Juliet on the other hand had to marry Count Paris so her love with Romeo is simply a way to get out of it. She never had a relationship with a man and she didn’t like to have her first and only relationship with a man her parents arranged for her. She wanted freedom and Romeo was her ticket to it.
Romeo Montague is considered an atrocious role model because of his repeatedly impulsive and immature attitude. He tends to rush into things and makes major life choices on a whim. “But this I pray/That thou consent to marry us to-day” (2.3.64-65). This proves that Romeo is impulsive and impatient. There was no rational reason for Romeo and Juliet to get married that soon. Had they waited until they received their parents
However she does not agree to marry Paris not following the path her parents laid out for her. Before the first encounter of Romeo and Juliet they both are rather immature in different ways. At Capulet’s feasts Romeo and Juliet see each other for the first time and immediately fall in love. This love helps Juliet in becoming more independent as she takes the first important decision for herself by deciding to marry Romeo. He is no longer lost in self-pity and sorrow but is much more outgoing and happy, which is an important change in h... ...
Romeo and Juliet don't truly love each other, for many reasons: Juliet hasn't been exposed to other men and relationships, Romeo was just recently madly in love with Rosaline, and they just met each other, the same night they declared their love. I think in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a good play, but i don't think the love Shakespeare is trying to explain is a real love. Although maybe he believes in love at first sight and is trying to show how strong love can be. Now in this time in the world i think that many people don't really
One reason some people think that Romeo and Juliet is a true love story is because the whole play is a feet of love about two teen agers how fall in love, go to the grave together and bring two warring family’s closer together due to their love. According to raven moss “love has no face” (para1). What moss is saying is that it does not matter your age race or beauty if its love then it is true .Also Romeo and Juliet were defiantly in love because they were willing to lay down their own life for one another and the fact that they risked their parents finding out and shutting them out of the family or worse never being able to see each other ever again (even though they were already married). According to raven moss teen agers know what love is because they are more open mined than adults so there for more willing to accept love.
Have you ever met that special someone in high school and fell in love with that person? In Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo and Juliet meet, you can tell by Romeo’s interaction with Juliet that he really loves Juliet. When Romeo meets Juliet, he kisses her hand and tries to impress her. Romeo then decides to visit Juliet at her house while knowing that it might cost him his life should her parents discover him there. They even decide to get married in secret a few days after they met. This shows that it is possible for teenagers to be in love.
What is love? Is it merely an idea put into our heads to explain the release of hormones from the pituitary glands? Or could it be a force that drives human kind to feel connections to one another? Well we can say for sure that the concept of love has driven mankind to many great and terrible things. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Edited by: Dr. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine are not truly in love by a psychological standpoint. My first reason for why Romeo and Juliet are not in love is that the human body during puberty creates many new cells from the amygdala so many adolescents feel awkward and uncertain during this period of their life. Also Romeo had been recently rejected by Rosaline and was feeling vulnerable. Lastly Juliet was thirteen which is a huge development phase for children and become rebellious.
In our society, love can be portrayed in thousands of ways. With simple things such as giving someone a hug or something more elaborate such as marriage. These things show are affection and love towards others, but it does not just end there. In Romeo and Juliet, as well as our society, we portray many different styles of love. These styles of love that I thought were portrayed well in Romeo and Juliet were physical love, emotional love, and paternal love.
Love can come in many different ways, especially in William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet. For example, love between/for family members, love for friends, love for self, love of an idea/cause, and, of course, romantic love. It has never been completely clear what type of love Shakespeare is trying to teach us about during his play, or, better yet what he is trying to persuade us about it. In real life, Shakespeare does not seem like a big fan of love. He married a woman named Anne Hathaway, but after a while moved to a different place and never saw her again. In his will, he only left her his bedclothes. This made people come up with different theories, one of which is that he simply fell out of love, and could never look at Anne again. That is why through his play, Shakespeare aims to show the reader that passionate love can lead to destruction. It is based on how dangerous it is to be obsessed with love and to love a person too much. This becomes evident through the actions and words of Friar Lawrence, the priest, Juliet the girl who fell in love with Romeo, and Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend.
Despite what many people think, Romeo and Juliet is not a love story; rather a story of desperation and obsession. People have been reading Shakespeare for hundreds of years and several people have mistaken it for a love story, due to the fact that Romeo loves Juliet so much he is willing to kill himself when he finds her supposedly dead; she does the same when she wakes up to find him dead. But in fact, Romeo is more taken aback by her beauty than he is in love with her. Juliet is intrigued by the fact someone could love her because her parents are very unsupportive of her. When the two find each other, they immediately become obsessed, mistaking this for love at first sight.
Romeo and Juliet choose their own actions through their judgments, which were caused by their belief of everlasting love. Due to their unsound and absurd attitudes, both characters are dazed by love in a puerile manner. The relationship they created was actually built on lust and desperation. Firstly, Romeo is the first character whom shows immature love in the story as a whole. Once Capulet’s party is over, Romeo’s attitude leads him to jump over the wall to Juliet’s house and exclaim to her,” And what love can do, that dares love attempt./Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me”(2.2.68-9). The effect of love caused Romeo to not pay attention to the consequences of jumping over the wall and talking to the daughter of his enemy. The flaw is that he is beginning to think that his love is as hard as nails. It is illogical for Romeo to think this...
A Study of Teenage Infatuation in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Love and infatuation are both strong emotions that most will encounter within their lifetime. The two feelings are often misunderstood, but are differentiated through their outcomes and stability. True love does not only rely on physical attraction, but also on one’s personality. When one is truly in love, they accept their partner’s flaws and perfections.
I believe Romeo is both right and wrong: unrequited love is painful, but Romeo does not truly love - as he is merely infatuated by a woman. Another type of love we are exposed to during the same scene is the love of Lady Capulet. Lady Capulet, as well as The Nurse, believes love comes from appearance, both physical and political, and has nothing to do with emotion. She shows this when she speaks favorably of Paris's looks and his nobility. She also shows that it is a superficial love by the way she treats Capulet when she publicly denounces him.
The main and most common type of love in Romeo and Juliet is romantic love. Romantic love is when somebody loves someone in a way that his or her heart connects with the other person’s heart and they go on dates, embrace each other, and sometimes get married to each other. When people amorously love each other, they will do bizarre and insane things for each other, so romantic love is very powerful. Romeo says:
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm. Romeo and Juliet is based on immature love, and is not a true love story. Love is a great source of passion throughout the world. Though love is considered a good emotion, it can also be one of the biggest flaws a person can have. When one is in love, they will basically do anything to be with the one they love. They don’t care about the number of rules they break, or how much they change themselves, as long as they can be with the one they truly love. They may take drastic measures from defying their parents and friends to committing suicide. Shakespeare shows the power of love and the affect it has, through one of the most well-known love stories in the world. Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet brings the audience through the brief relationship between Romeo and Juliet; even though it is short it is complex. We are shown love, hate, passion and commitment. In the end, we are shown how true love leass to true sacrifice. Is it possible that love at first sight really exists? That forces such as fate, can make a person find true love and never let go no matter the circumstances? The answers to these questions can be found in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.