While many have dreamt of a perfect fantasy where they fall in love with a handsome man or beautiful woman at first sight, as seen in many popular works of literature, is it really possible? In William Shakespeare's acclaimed play Romeo and Juliet, the reader is introduced to the two main characters from feuding families who “fall in love” and consequently kill themselves out of grief for each other in the span of only five days. The bogus claim that Shakespeare’s play is a good source of evidence to argue against a basic truth - that love at first sight is impossible - will be completely refuted in this essay.
Although some may say that love at first sight is possible because it’s seen when Romeo and Juliet acknowledge their “love” when they’ve
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This shows not only that Romeo’s love is noncommittal with Rosaline but also that it is indeed lust. While Lawrence calls it love, he describes it as being in his eyes meaning it based upon appearance and not personality and true commitment. In addition, when talking with Romeo in her garden, Juliet says, “My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words/ Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:/ Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?” (2.2.62-64). This exemplifies the lack of possibility for a loving commitment between the two protagonists: it highlights the fact that they have hardly spoken - less than one hundred words at that! Not only do they know hardly anything about each other, they are also aware that they are from conflicting families and it will be difficult for them to be in a committed relationship. In addition to that, they are caught up in delusions about each other and have sufficiently convinced themselves they’re somehow familiar saying “yet I know that sound” directly after acknowledging they’ve hardly spoken. Last of all, as Romeo speaks to the friar after killing Juliet’s cousin Tybalt and being banished, he