Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Does Romeo really love Juliet?Support the opinion with quotation from the play

The subject of love is not a simple one in real life or
Shakespeare's famous play, Romeo and Juliet.  In the play, love is
often fickle and may be seen more as infatuation than true love.  In my opinion, Romeo
does not really love Juliet.


In the first four scenes of
Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is completely heartbroken because Rosaline
does not return his love.  When Romeo bemoans Rosaline's decision to enter a convent in
Act I, Scene i, he tells Benvolio:


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...She hath forsworn to love, and in that
vow


Do I live dea that live to tell it
now...


Thou canst not teach me to
forget.



Later, Romeo even
claims that he hopes that his eyes burn out if he ever believes another girl is as
beautiful as Rosaline.  Even on the way to the Capulet's party, Romeo tells his
friends



I am
too sore enpierced with {Cupid's} shaft


To soar with his
light feathers; and so bound


I cannot bound a pitch above
dull woe.


Under love's heavy burden I do
sink.




Despite his
intense "love" for Rosaline, though, Romeo instantaneously falls in "love" with Juliet
before he even meets her!  When Romeo sees Juliet across the room, he forgets his
feelings for Rosaline and asks:


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Did my heart love till now?  Forswear it,
sight!


For I ne'er saw true beauty till this
night.



Because he forgets
Rosaline and claims to love Juliet in an instant, I believe that Romeo had no idea what
true love is.  I would say that his feelings for both girls were infatuation and that
there relationship was more teen drama than anything else.

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