Elliot D. Cohen's Is There Love At First Sight

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Many would say they’ve experienced true love. But what is love? Love is an emotion you feel towards your partner. You can also describe it as a strong connection with them. In the article “Is There Love at First Sight.” Cohen describes true love as “An activity involving caring activities including being loyal,consistent,and trustworthy.”(Cohen 9). On the other hand, people might say they’ve experienced first sight love. But is this concept even possible? Elliot D. Cohen describes the idea of love at first sight as “Misnomer since it cannot reasonably be take literally.”(Cohen 2). Cohen states “Perhaps there is a sense of deja vu triggered by having known this person in a prior lifetime.”(Cohen 3). Cohen’s main points are that love still exists. …show more content…

We look back to the book of “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. The story takes place in Verona, Italy. Where Romeo a Montague is forced to go to a party. In where he is convinced that Rosaline will be there. As Romeo arrives at the party he spots Juliet and falls in love with her. However, Tybalt (Juliet’s Cousin) Spots Romeo, and want to kill him, but Lord Capulet insists to him to not because he wasn’t doing nothing bad. Later on Romeo approaches Juliet and he declares his love for her, and insists for a kiss from her. After the party Romeo finds out that Juliet is a Capulet, which seems to upset him. Meanwhile, Juliet also finds out that Romeo is a Montague. Later on that night, Romeo climbs up onto Juliet's window, and declare that they'll get married. Throughout the story many situations fall in the way of their relationship for example Romeo’s cousin and Juliet’s cousin both die. Friar Lawrence's letter didn’t arrive in time to Romeo about the plan they had, and also Romeo’s servant gave him the news that Juliet had died. In finale Romeo returns from Mantua to Verona. But before he buys some poison and writes a suicide note. Once Juliet awakens from the potion she drank she finds Romeo's dead body and also commits