Essay On Immaturity In Romeo And Juliet

Beginning, the first way Romeo and Juliet to not exemplify love, the reason being that they are immature. Romeo’s immaturity when he says, ¨Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here. This is not Romeo, he's some other where.” (1.1.192-93). This was directly after Romeo had been turned down by Rosaline, he spoke of how gloomy and depressed it had made him. Not wanting to move on with life, he “lost all hope” of it moving forward after Rosaline, a girl who only rejected him. Juliet’s immaturity shows when she said, “ The only man I love is the son of the only man I hate! I saw him too early without knowing who he was, and I found out who he was too late! Love is a monster for making me fall in love with my worst enemy.”(1.5.137-40). Romeo and Juliet had just met and she claimed to already loved him; she knows nothing about him other than his family name. Juliet claimed she loves him without knowing him as a person. Moreover, Romeo and Juliet’s immaturity did not help to create a good depiction of love.

To justify, in the text Romeo complains, “I am too sore enpiercèd with his shaft to soar with his light feathers, and so bound, I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” (1.4.17-20). Romeo went to the Capulet’s party with the mindset of being depressed over Rosaline, who rejected him earlier, but he ended up meeting Juliet and “falling in love” with her. “Lady, by yonder blessèd moon I vow, That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—” was said in Act 2, scene 2 when Romeo was swearing his love to Juliet by the moon. The moon is ever-changing, this being related to Romeo’s mindset; his feelings are forever changing, as they did for Rosaline within a day. The love’s not there since Juliet is seen as the replacement in Romeo’s