The Perception Of Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Love is a feeling of deep affection. Some people may believe in love at first sight, but johanna doesn't because as shakespeare once wrote “ Young men's love lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Love at first sight is not real because Romeo in the beginning was in deeply in love and obsessed with a girl named Rosaline and was sure that no girl was more beautiful than her. However, when Romeo went to the capulets party and first saw Juliet, he fell in love and forgot all about Rosaline, so clearly the love for Rosaline was not strong because Romeo instantly fell in love with another girl. In act one scene two Romeo said “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun/Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun” meaning that he positive he is in love with Rosaline and won't look at another girl the way he sees Rosaline. In act one scene five contradicts what he said about Rosaline before because he says “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I …show more content…
Which proves that Juliet is really naive about making choices and that the relationship she has with Romeo is not really love because they've just met and a day later they want to get married. In act two scene two Juliet Says “Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,I have no joy of this contract tonight.It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say “It lightens” in this line Juliet says that she hasn't even thought about marrying someone and that it’s too fast. Then she later says “If that thy bent of love be honorable,Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” in this line she is saying that if Romeo truly loves her that he should prove it to her by marrying her which is the opposite of what she said in the beginning, so she clearly doesn't understand what love

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