François de La Rochefoucauld, a French author once said, “It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it”. True love is what Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers, seem to experience in William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet believe that they have fallen in true love with each other regardless of their family feud, Romeo’s love for another girl in the beginning of the story, and their young age. Although, some may believe that teenage love can be real, nevertheless, it is impossible to fall in true love as teenagers.
As a matter of fact, teenage love is not real love because adolescents are immature and misinterpret their feelings Firstly, after meeting Juliet on the previous night, Romeo …show more content…
This shows that Friar agrees that Romeo’s love just depends on outer beauty of the girls; this behaviour of Romeo even depicts his immaturity and less understanding of love. This proves that teenage love, in this case, Romeo’s love is not real because teenagers are more likely to judge people on their physical beauty misinterpreting their love. In addition, when Romeo goes to Capulet’s party depressed as he loves Rosaline, Capulet’s niece, but she does not love him back. There in the feast, he sees Juliet for the first time. Romeo says to himself, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Ⅰ.ⅴ.54-55). This shows that Romeo’s love is immature and fickle because he claims to love Juliet just because she is beautiful, besides he has not even met her yet. This also shows that Romeo’s love is not real because at first he claimed to love Rosaline because she is very beautiful; then he encounters Juliet and says that he loves her as she is more beautiful than Rosaline forgetting about Rosaline immediately. Moreover, after the party, Juliet gets to know from the nurse that the boy she kissed is none other than Romeo, son of her sworn enemy Montague. After knowing this, Juliet exclaims, “My only love sprung from my only hate!/
As a matter of fact, teenage love is not real love because adolescents are immature and misinterpret their feelings Firstly, after meeting Juliet on the previous night, Romeo …show more content…
This shows that Friar agrees that Romeo’s love just depends on outer beauty of the girls; this behaviour of Romeo even depicts his immaturity and less understanding of love. This proves that teenage love, in this case, Romeo’s love is not real because teenagers are more likely to judge people on their physical beauty misinterpreting their love. In addition, when Romeo goes to Capulet’s party depressed as he loves Rosaline, Capulet’s niece, but she does not love him back. There in the feast, he sees Juliet for the first time. Romeo says to himself, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Ⅰ.ⅴ.54-55). This shows that Romeo’s love is immature and fickle because he claims to love Juliet just because she is beautiful, besides he has not even met her yet. This also shows that Romeo’s love is not real because at first he claimed to love Rosaline because she is very beautiful; then he encounters Juliet and says that he loves her as she is more beautiful than Rosaline forgetting about Rosaline immediately. Moreover, after the party, Juliet gets to know from the nurse that the boy she kissed is none other than Romeo, son of her sworn enemy Montague. After knowing this, Juliet exclaims, “My only love sprung from my only hate!/