Romeo And Juliet Unrequited Love Essay

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Maddie Johnson
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5/15/18

Today i will be talking about Romeo and Juliet and unrequited love and romantic love is the same but have differences. Some people know Romeo and Juliet as a tragic but love story. Let me just catch you on a couple of things. Romeo likes Rosaline but she doesnt share the same feeling for Romeo. Paris loves Juliet, thinks that he is going to marry her. Juliet doesn't like Paris. Way to be totally emo and enigmatic, Romeo. Here's he's completely infatuated with Rosaline. When he's not daydreaming about Rosaline in his room, He's moping around in a grove of "sycamore" trees, where those who are sick amour sick with love tend to hang out . The thing is, Rosaline has absolutely no interest in Romeo, but he pursues her anyway. Maybe he's not in love with Rosaline as he is obsessed with the idea of being in love. Paris wants to get married to Juliet, Juliet …show more content…

An unrequited love or one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood such by the beloved. Unrequited love is when one person loves another, but the other doesn't love them back, another word for is unrequited love is unreturned love. At the beginning of the play, Romeo loves Rosaline, but she doesn't love him back the way Romeo “loves” Rosaline is like that fake love he seen her so its like wow im so in love with her even though he's never talked to her in person. He just likes the thought of being in love. Romantic love is for significant other it is a mutual attraction, lot of emotions and passions. Romantic love is probably the most used type of love in the play because Romeo and Juliet are romantically in love, there is lots of emotion between them and they would die for each

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