Thesis statement ~ include 3 points In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, we are told a story about two lovers in Verona, Italy who could not see their love through because of their respective families sworn hatred of eachother. This tragedy ends with the death of the two main characters with their proposed love never fully coming into fruition. But, was their love genuine? I believe that due to the inexperience, foolishness, and immaturity of our main characters along with Romeo’s generally promiscuous nature, Romeo and Juliet could not have genuinely been in love. I believe that the events that take place in the book Romeo and Juliet were those of hasty lust and rushed emotions. Since both of these lovers had no prior experience with romantic relationships, they couldn’t truly know what love is. In act I scene II, regarding Juliet, Lady Capulet, her mother, says “My child is yet a stranger in the world. She hath not seen the change of fourteen years“ addressing how folly she is. She keeps trying to maintain the pressure of her desire to mingle with their enemy. Juliet hands over a childish and demeaning attitude towards the nurse after she advises her to give up on Romeo after the exile, her capricious attitude and warnings about attempting towards her own life demonstrate how the opinion of Lady …show more content…
In act I, scene V, Juliet says “If he be married My grave is like to be my wedding bed”. One should consider the fact that Juliet has not yet even properly been introduced to Romeo--and she is already considering herself to be in love: "If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow. . .". A day after Juliet meets Romeo, she agrees to marry him. Stepping back for a moment, it is generally agreeable that love does not happen instantly--but infatuation certainly does. That is the distinction here. Infatuation is an extreme passion that is almost always short