Are Roméo And Juliet In Love Or Not?

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Are Roméo and Juliet in love or not?

No, I believe that although they like each other they are not in love but infatuated. They have known each other for about a day, they have spoken only once. The thing they love about each other is the way they look. Back when Romeo and Juliet was written this may have been normal but now we recognize that there's more to people than just the way they look. Romeo is someone who feels like he should be married by now so he is pretending that every women he cares about is “ the one:” for him. This is evident in the fact that that the day he met Juliet he was upset because he was in love with someone else he had just met. Juliet is just young, too young to understand fully who she is and what she wants.

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