Love Tissue In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo didn’t really love Juliette Romeo’s idea of love is purely skin-deep in the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet. He never once mentions that he loves Rosaline’s or Juliette’s personalities. But many times he speaks of her beauty: “ / she’s fair I love.”(I.i 204) Romeo tends to only love someone who is stunningly attractive. And never values the girls above what is on the outside: “one fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match since first the world begun” in this little spiel he is speaking of Rosaline whom he originally loved in the beginning of the play. Romeo also seems to get over Rosaline very quickly after meeting Juliette. Not to mention, Juliette is a very naïve young teenager who thinks that this is her one

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