Examples Of Lust In Romeo And Juliet

William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and juliet in a way that makes you think that Romeo and Juliet's love is completely based on strong sexual desire, the whole play moves extremely fast for a normal romantic experience, this can take up to a few years for a strong loving relationship, in Romeo and Juliets case in just around four days, Romeo meets Juliet, moves on from Rosaline, makes his decision that he is in love with Juliet, marries Juliet, and sleeps with her in that short period of time. This opposes two sides of an argument, this relationship is lust, or is this relationship true love. I believe that Romeo's love with Juliet is mostly lust because of three main points, How fast Romeo abandons Rosaline because Juliet is more attractive,

Is this love story really all about love? Or is it all just a tale of lust? There are many examples that Shakespeare puts into the book that guides the audience to think there relationship is lust. The first red flag of the lust relationship, is how quickly he abandons Rasoline after laying his eyes on Juliet, literally the day before meeting Juliet, Romeo was the most miserable guy in Verona, he would not leave his room and would only talk to his cousin Benvolio, Romeo was truly depressed. Once his “bro’s” convinced him to go to the party because Rosaline was going to be there, he saw his future wife Juliet, from this point on from the story, Romeo completely abandoned the idea of Rosoline and never even mentioned her again, this shows that Romeo think for the moment and his relationship is fueled by heartbreak, similar to people in lust relationships. Romeo falls in love at first sight, it is strictly of her outside appearance, he describes her in this way; (Romeo and Juliet act i scene V) “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! - it seems she hangs upon the cheek of night - like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear” notice how romeo only talks about her outside