Romeo and Juliet is the most popular tragic love-story, written by William Shakespeare in 1599.Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who take their lives for each other when their love is hindered by their quarreling parents. The play has not only been considered the most touching story of all time in the world but also hailed as a greatest love story ever told. That may be why the book is translated into so many other languages and has been read by many people.
The story, for many, is taken as a role model in their real life of love, but it doesn’t mean the story get off without critical discussion. Based on that, this essay is going to analyze and answer if the love between Romeo and Juliet in the story is real one or just infatuation. In relation to that, this essay will even see whether the love between the two could have been sustained, had they been alive.
As a preliminary ground, a brief definition of the two words, love and infatuation is taken from www.srcp.org difference of love and infatuation by Judy Cyprian, Katherine McLaughlin, and Glenn Quint. According to them, love is something that grows step by step and stays longer time. In addition to that, it has the characteristics of deeper and more powerful feeling than a …show more content…
Normally people in real love are patient and good friends. At some point, their speech is extremely sexual with Juliet shows clearly her eagerness for sex as every young will try to do. In her speech, she wished Romeo would come at night and ‘make love’ and excited of thinking of losing her virginity; she even went far to express how impatient she felt at the coming of the night so that she would learn strange acts of sex (3.2.1-30). Lack of patience and good friendship, as they don’t know each other long time, makes their only relationships is sexual. Therefore, they were just being
The story, for many, is taken as a role model in their real life of love, but it doesn’t mean the story get off without critical discussion. Based on that, this essay is going to analyze and answer if the love between Romeo and Juliet in the story is real one or just infatuation. In relation to that, this essay will even see whether the love between the two could have been sustained, had they been alive.
As a preliminary ground, a brief definition of the two words, love and infatuation is taken from www.srcp.org difference of love and infatuation by Judy Cyprian, Katherine McLaughlin, and Glenn Quint. According to them, love is something that grows step by step and stays longer time. In addition to that, it has the characteristics of deeper and more powerful feeling than a …show more content…
Normally people in real love are patient and good friends. At some point, their speech is extremely sexual with Juliet shows clearly her eagerness for sex as every young will try to do. In her speech, she wished Romeo would come at night and ‘make love’ and excited of thinking of losing her virginity; she even went far to express how impatient she felt at the coming of the night so that she would learn strange acts of sex (3.2.1-30). Lack of patience and good friendship, as they don’t know each other long time, makes their only relationships is sexual. Therefore, they were just being