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Was Romeo And Juliet Truly In Love?

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In the beginning of the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo was deeply in love with a girl named Rosaline. After Romeo found out that Rosaline didn’t love him, he went to (an accidental party with both Capulet's and Montague's invited). At the party Romeo saw a beautiful girl that caught his eye and her name was Juliet and they instantly were attracted to each other. This is how Romeo and Juliet met. Romeo and Juliet were not truly in love because they got married only two days after they had met and that wasn’t enough time to truly fall in love with someone. It is possible to have feelings for someone in two days, but you can’t truly love someone in that short amount of time because they didn’t know a lot about each other. While the nurse and Friar
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Their relationship was full of complications. First of all, they were talking about their marriage the night they met. This proves that both of them were blinded by attraction and too immature to realize that marriage after less than a day of knowing each other was not the right idea, because they simply don't know each other yet. When most people think of the play “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” They think of a classic play about two young lovers who experienced love at first sight. In difference, Romeo and Juliet were not actually in love.

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Romeo was in love with Rosaline but then he went to a party of the Capulets. Romeo wasn’t invited to this party but Romeo went anyways. When Romeo got to the party he saw Juliet the daughter of the Capulets and Romeo fell in love with her at the first sight. Romeo was in love with Rosaline but as soon as he seen Juliet his feelings changed very quick and shows he falls in love too fast and easily. Romeo is quick to falling in love too fast and because of that it is one of the reasons Romeo and Juliet are dead.

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When Romeo first encounters Juliet at the Capulet’s party at the beginning of the play, this is first made clear. Romeo appears to have completely forgotten about Rosaline and becomes instantly infatuated with Juliet. Romeo and Juliet soon run into each other at Juliet’s balcony after their first previous encounter. After a brief conversation, Juliet proposes the idea of marriage "If that thy bent of love be honorable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow.

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Counterclaim Some people may say that their love was too quick, and was caused because of their hormones. In the play Romeo says, “Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged” (Shakespeare 1.v.107). This quote shows how Romeo wasnt thinking about all of the consequences that would happen if he were to kiss her. He wanted to know if Juliet wanted him back, because had already gone through a sad time when Rosaline rejected him, and he didn’t want to go through the pain

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As Friar Laurence tells Romeo, "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast" (II.III.81-94). This advice applies not only to their actions but also to their emotions, suggesting that true love requires time and thoughtfulness. In the case of Romeo and Juliet, their love was based on passion rather than a deeper connection, and ultimately led to their tragic

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William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet is focused on the lives of two “star-crossed” lovers, Romeo of the Montagues and Juliet of the Capulets. Both families are of the same dignity or social status. However, there is great tension between these two families for reasons that are not specified by Shakespeare. In the beginning of the play, Romeo loves a woman named Rosaline and Juliet does not seem to be interested in dating. The readers understand that at some point in the play they will meet and fall in love due to the title Romeo and Juliet, not Romeo and Rosaline or Juliet.

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When the play start we see that Romeo is already in love with Rosaline, before he sees the love of his life and gives his heart to Juliet. However in Romeo the love for Rosaline stand for the dream life, yet undisturbed, the apostasy to emotion for emotion's sake. Romeo care for his love, he sheds tears, he cultivates solitude, and he let out his cry in the hearing of the comfortable monk, yet he stimulates his beautified with the sought out phrases. After he meet Juliet he forgot that he was in love with Rosaline. However Juliet is a current force beyond and above himself, a real fact of the world.

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Romeo met Juliet and marries her in less than twenty-four hours. Despite having many young girls in Verona, Romeo became miserable, when he found out that Rosaline did not love him back. When Benvolio was wondering why Romeo was looking so gloomy, he went up to him and ask him what is wrong. Romeo stated that he is in love with a girl, that does not love him back. Romeo describes Rosaline with many metaphors and similes.

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Throughout the play, Romeo is recovering from his unrequited love and during the Capulet party, he “ne’er saw beauty till this night”(1.5 50-51). This piece of evidence indicates that Romeo had never seen such a beautiful girl until that night. This portrayed love by how it affected Romeo’s actions by causing him to kiss and bond with Juliet. Eventually, this stirred conflict between the Montague and Capulet. During the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, the Friar insists that they “shall not stay alone” until the church “incorporate the two in one”(2.6 35-37).

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After Romeo has met Juliet, he says, “With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No. I have forgot that name, and that name’s woe” Act two, scene three, line 48). This begs the question: Was Romeo truly in love, or did he just find Juliet attractive, like many teens? Convinced that they were in love with each other, these two teens meet again at night and pledge their love, deciding that they will be married the next morning.

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The first reason that Romeo and Juliet are not in love due to the fact that they are too childish to fully understand what love is. During the famous balcony scene, Juliet says, “But to be frank, and give [my love to] thee again, And yet I wish but for the thing I have. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” (2.2.31-35).

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