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

sure herself that Romeo wants to marry her. This will lead to problems in the future because both Romeo and Juliet aren't mature enough to know the result of loving someone that young. This only leads to one other thing and its bad luck and character loss.
Romeo and Juliet die because they love each other.

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

loss.
Romeo and Juliet's idea of getting married came very fast and was definitely rushed. The thought of getting married comes after a few very short conversations. Their thought to spend the rest of their life with each other comes too soon. They barely even got to know each other in the beginning of the play at the Capulet party, Romeo and Juliet interact for the first time. In such a short amount of time, they already decide to be partners. It is obvious that Juliet's feeling of love for Romeo rises up very quickly because right after their first meet/meeting, Juliet states, "If Romeo is married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed"(Lines 136-137, Scene 5, Act 1). Romeo finds out the truth about Juliet's family background and says "O dear account! My life is my foe's dept." (1.5.Line 120, Scene 5, Act 1). Juliet is already making plans to kill herself if Romeo is already married while just before that, this is definitely a sign of immaturity. Romeo is already putting Juliet in the life of his hands. This shows that their relationship is built on physical attraction and not love. This is young love and that only leads to bad luck and character loss.
There are many themes in Williams play but a very important one is that young love only leads to bad luck and sadness for the characters. The two lovers I have been talking about made mistakes that costed them their lives first one was falling in love at an age of only 14 and 16 which shouldn't happen. Secondly they caused a lot of death just so they could be together and at the end they killed them self just so they could be together. Lastly is that they rushed things to fast which caused the other two things to happen, if they just took their time like regular lovers do they would have not caused death and they would've had a happy life but they rushed everything because they were young. The main idea of this play that I believe Shakespeare wanted to show us is that love is a beautiful thing and that we shouldn't rush it because once you find the right person you'll know it and if someone is rushing love then it's not true love