Examples Of Immature Love In Romeo And Juliet

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Says Erich Fromm as he explores the problems Shakespeare has written in the play Romeo and Juliet. The problem in young immature love is that there will always be some sort that resulted/results in anything in what the young lovers have to go through. In this case of what William wrote is a big mistake that shouldn't have happened as many would say that they shouldn't have even been together. An important theme found in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is that young love only leads to bad luck and character down falls. Juliet is shown to be immature in an opening scene where her father tells the Paris his daughter is not old and adult enough to marry. "My child is yet a stranger in the world, she has not seen the charge of fourteen years." Lines 8-9, Scene 2, Act 1. So her meeting Romeo and falling in love with him right away is just not smart of Juliet. It is also shown during the scene when she agrees to marry Romeo after knowing him only a day and she is not even

Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet cause the deaths of many people such as Tybalt and Paris. They both die because Romeo thinks Juliet is "dead" so he takes a poison and Juliet wakes up to see Romeo dead so she then kills herself because she can't go on in life without her "love" Romeo. Tybalt killed Mercutio because Mercutio took Romeo's place when the two groups were fighting. They were fighting because of the fighting between the Capulets and the Montagues. Then Romeo killed Tybalt because he killed Romeos best friend Mercutio and he cared for him so much and he had died from Tybalt's hand so Romeo kills Tybalt. Romeo also kills Paris because he loved Juliet so much and just wanted to take the poison and lay beside his wife that was "dead' but Paris was interfering with it. This is young love and that only leads to bad luck and character