Love can begin with puppy-love, and puppy-love is synonymous with infatuation. While they are very different things, the play does not make a distinction between the two. People ache for both experiences, and as we can tell from the outcome of Romeo and Juliet, can make people do extreme things. Eternal true love is idolized, and infatuation is something short-lived and crazily passionate. We must understand the difference in order to get what we really want.
Love is tenderness and warmth, a deep connection that's hard to explain with words. To me, it's when another person's happiness is your happiness. You should crave to make them smile and beam. In the play, there is no distinction between love and infatuation. For example, when Romeo says, "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seem she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear- beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows as yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand and, touching hers, make blessed my …show more content…
It seems like Romeo was crushing harder and more genuinely on Juliet. For example, Romeo says, "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a kiss." He is saying how Juliet is too good for him and how he's unworthy to even grasp her hand. Earlier in the play Romeo and Benvolio were trash-talking Rosaline pretty lewdly. They said that Rosaline becoming a nun was a waste because her beauty wasn't put to good use. If you loved somebody, you wouldn't say those things about them. Romeo was definitely only infatuated with Rosaline because if he loved her, he would've stopped Benvolio's vulgar
Love is tenderness and warmth, a deep connection that's hard to explain with words. To me, it's when another person's happiness is your happiness. You should crave to make them smile and beam. In the play, there is no distinction between love and infatuation. For example, when Romeo says, "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seem she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear- beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows as yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand and, touching hers, make blessed my …show more content…
It seems like Romeo was crushing harder and more genuinely on Juliet. For example, Romeo says, "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a kiss." He is saying how Juliet is too good for him and how he's unworthy to even grasp her hand. Earlier in the play Romeo and Benvolio were trash-talking Rosaline pretty lewdly. They said that Rosaline becoming a nun was a waste because her beauty wasn't put to good use. If you loved somebody, you wouldn't say those things about them. Romeo was definitely only infatuated with Rosaline because if he loved her, he would've stopped Benvolio's vulgar