Romeo and Juliet acts as a cautionary tale about the dangers of emotionally uncontrolled young love. The tragedy of two star-crossed lovers are both emotionally confused, love-obsessed teenagers, whose strong, lustful feelings for one another dominate their lives, preventing them from making logical decisions and becoming responsible their own downfall. Even before the protagonists meet each other, Shakespeare writes them as being emotionally corrupted by their ideas of what love is and their lack of experience with it. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is downright obsessed with the idea of love, but the only love he knows of is of an over-the-top nature. He speaks in oxymoron and makes schmaltzy expressions about how cruelly love