It is to be believed that the story of Romeo and Juliet is more a story of lust rather than love. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two youthful teenagers helplessly falling in love, but their love story being destined by fate to end in a tragedy due to the quarrel between their families. There is no reason to indicate that their love is genuine. Their lust is mistaken as love due to Romeo and Juliet’s young age and little experience with personal relationships, believing that their love is true because they want to rebel against their strict parents feud and that the two lovers had only known each other a couple of days before getting married. At the beginning of the play, it is made known that Juliet is only thirteen and Romeo is fourteen which does not leave the lovers with favorable love experience. Before Romeo and Juliet met, Juliet had absolutely no intention on marrying anyone.
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Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” (Shakespeare. 2.3.65-68) Friar Lawrence was quite baffled and sceptical by Romeo’s quick change in interest in love. Kids often change who they love rather quickly, even back when the play was written. People do not tend to ride roller coasters because they like them, they ride them for the thrill they give. Romeo and Juliet’s love story was always thrilling, there was never a time when something was going completely smooth. The thrill of rebelling against their parents distracted the lovers from actually finding their true loves. The Capulet-Montague feud has been going on for years, and the two families absolutely despise one another. “Well, girl, thou weep’st not so much for his death,
As that the villain lives which slaughtered him.” (Shakespeare.3.5.78-79) Lady Capulet has expressed her hatred toward the Montagues’, especially Romeo. Juliet’s mother’s hatred for Romeo attracts her to the thought of him, rather than actually getting to know
Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” (Shakespeare. 2.3.65-68) Friar Lawrence was quite baffled and sceptical by Romeo’s quick change in interest in love. Kids often change who they love rather quickly, even back when the play was written. People do not tend to ride roller coasters because they like them, they ride them for the thrill they give. Romeo and Juliet’s love story was always thrilling, there was never a time when something was going completely smooth. The thrill of rebelling against their parents distracted the lovers from actually finding their true loves. The Capulet-Montague feud has been going on for years, and the two families absolutely despise one another. “Well, girl, thou weep’st not so much for his death,
As that the villain lives which slaughtered him.” (Shakespeare.3.5.78-79) Lady Capulet has expressed her hatred toward the Montagues’, especially Romeo. Juliet’s mother’s hatred for Romeo attracts her to the thought of him, rather than actually getting to know