Romeo and Juliet is classically the “love story” that everyone compares couples that have somehow beaten the odds but if you look at it more closely you can tell that it is a story about familial love and not romantic love, until the very end of the play when Romeo professes his love for Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is not the love story that everyone makes it out to be. That in fact it is more about Romeo and Juliet feeling that they need to overcompensate by falling in love maybe to get the attention from their parent that they never had as a kid, because their parents didn't raise them at all but they only got the attention from their nannies and priest’s.
Romeo a lust crazed teenage boy with tendencies of a stalker, has a special relationship with his town's priest, Friar Lawrence almost like that father figure he doesn't really have. And this familial love has been going on since Romeo was a young child. In the play one of the scenes …show more content…
One scene that show that Romeo loves Juliet but not the other way is act V, scene iii, 74-120. He shows his love for Juliet by saying “Here’s to my love [drinks]. O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” This shows that Romeo has actually come to care for Julie in the four days that he has know her. But Juliet's death speek shows that she doesn’t love Romeo because in his long speech before he dies he says “Here's to my love” but before Juliet dies she says “Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop, To help me after! I will kiss thy lips; Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative.” She doesn't say anything about how she love him she pretty much just says “Why didn't he live me any poison, so i can kill myself” He finally kind of professes his love for her and she just complains about
Romeo a lust crazed teenage boy with tendencies of a stalker, has a special relationship with his town's priest, Friar Lawrence almost like that father figure he doesn't really have. And this familial love has been going on since Romeo was a young child. In the play one of the scenes …show more content…
One scene that show that Romeo loves Juliet but not the other way is act V, scene iii, 74-120. He shows his love for Juliet by saying “Here’s to my love [drinks]. O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” This shows that Romeo has actually come to care for Julie in the four days that he has know her. But Juliet's death speek shows that she doesn’t love Romeo because in his long speech before he dies he says “Here's to my love” but before Juliet dies she says “Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop, To help me after! I will kiss thy lips; Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative.” She doesn't say anything about how she love him she pretty much just says “Why didn't he live me any poison, so i can kill myself” He finally kind of professes his love for her and she just complains about