The Theme Of Lust In Romeo And Juliet

In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the couple experiences lustful infatuation rather than love due to physical appearances driving the relationship instead of pure emotion.

entirely in this scene as he stops thinking of love in a bad way as he

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Romeo was infatuated with Rosaline, who paid no attention to him whatsoever, which in turn made Romeo depressed and desperate for mutual feelings. His friend, Benvolio, tells Romeo to go to the party to get over his love-sick feelings for Rosaline, and at said party he sees Juliet, a “Saint/Angel” — words he would have used for Rosaline. Romeo immediately becomes obsessed with Juliet despite declaring his love to

His love for Juliet was very true and his love for Rosaline was maybe just a crush. The love that Romeo got for Juliet is true love not superficial like the love he got for Rosaline. Romeo

“An intense feeling of deep attraction.” That is the definition of love. Love between a man and a dog, a kid and ice-cream, a mother and her family, and love between two selfless people. This is true love. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, the feeling of attraction between the two main characters is not true love. The setting of this play is the streets of Verona, Italy, during a time when arranged marriages at the age of 14 were socially acceptable. Two young teens, Romeo and Juliet, were convinced that they had feelings for each other, but acted more out of lust than anything else. Lust is defined as “a very strong sexual desire”, and it becomes more apparent as the

However, at the party he meets Juliet for the first time, and immediately falls in love with her: “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Romeo, who was in love with Rosaline until a moment ago, completely forgets about her and is now all focused on Juliet. But what is very surprising is not the fact that he is in love with his enemy’s daughter, the astonishing thing is the speed at which he falls in love with her. Soon, in fact, he and Juliet kiss each other: “Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.” However, Romeo’s characteristics to love so deeply Juliet is just a symbol of his lacking the capacity of moderation for intense feelings of all kind. Had Romeo stopped himself from being so deeply caught up by Juliet’s beauty, the tragedy would have never happened.

Romeo is portrayed as an emotional and reckless character. His friend Mercutio and Fr. Lawrence comment on Romeo’s fickle attitude when he immediately falls in love with Juliet completely forgetting about Rosaline, his first love. Romeo quotes,” Did my heart love until now? Foreswear it sight, for I never saw true beauty until this night”. His love for Rosaline was superficial. Juliet transforms Romeo’s immature and erotic infatuation to true and constant love. After meeting Juliet he matures very quickly. Maybe Romeo’s love for Juliet is so intense because unlike Rosaline, Juliet reciprocates his

Their love for each other is not lust, this is because they fought to see each other throughout the play, before Romeo was banished, when Romeo went to Juliet's grave, and when Romeo risked his life multiple times to see Juliet. Before Romeo was banished they had come up with a plan to get Romeo not banished anymore. This is because he could not stand to be that far away from the one he loved, he would have rather die, and everyone would be at peace. " For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death, Do not say banishment." Act three, Scene three, and page 141.

True love can be a disguised mask for lust. In Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, three characters portray lust as what they think is love. The first two characters are Romeo and Juliet because they are not truly in love, and the last character is Paris. Romeo expresses lust because he falls in and out of love too quickly, so it can’t be true love with every person. The best example of this is when Romeo talks to himself.

Romeo labels his feelings towards Juliet as “love”, although he has not gotten the opportunity to learn about her personality. This indicates that what he feels about her was entirely formed by her physical beauty rather than genuine feelings. Evidently, sexual desires seemed to be his ulterior motive for marrying her, instead of committing to love, care, and cherish her till death do them apart.

The definition of Love is “an intense feeling of deep attraction.” The definition of Lust is “Very strong sexual desire.” While in love with someone you are in love with every little thing about them. While in lust you are only in love with the way they look or when you are sleeping together. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo only compliments Juliet on her looks, never on anything else.

Moreover, Romeo through his infatuation with Rosaline learned valuable lessons that help him come to appreciate and understand the feelings he experiences with Juliet. Romeo felt rejection, sorrow, and misery from his infatuation with Rosaline which is seen when he is talking to Benvolio, “In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman” this particular quote shows the sadness or sorrow he feels from the feelings for Rosaline (1.1.201). Also when he says “She hath forsworn to love”, the words Romeo speaks allow it to be inferred that his feelings for her have been rejected (1.1.220). “At the opening of the play [Romeo] is maundering about like an erotic woman novelist, sighing and groaning because Rosaline will not listen to his tenders of affection” revealing that Romeo’s love was rejected and was upset because of this, allowing him to learn these feelings and what it is like to be rejected by the one he had feelings for (Northwood 19). Due to having felt these emotions from his infatuation, when he finds his love for Juliet and receives love and acceptance from her. Since he went so long, feeling sorrow and rejection when he finally finds Juliet, he can fully appreciate the love and acceptance he is given which intensifies his love for her and does the opposite of weakening the credibility of his love. Through his infatuation with Rosaline, he was able to grow as a person and become able to fully commit to his love for Juliet.

Romeo’s actions from the beginning of the play conveys to the readers that he is a romantic. He first expresses this when he talks about Rosaline. The fact that he claims that he is in love, even though they’ve never had conversation with her shows that he’s a bit up obsessed. Then when he lays eyes on Juliet his heart is immediately healed of Rosaline, and he is suddenly in love with Juliet. The only difference between Romeo and Rosaline, and Romeo and Juliet is that Juliet appears to love Romeo back. Since Juliet is the first one, that we know of, to love him back he immediately thinks she is the one for him. Romeo acting like this is Shakespeare way of showing the audience that Romeo is still a male teenagers that acts out by more of what he see then what he feel.

Romeo doesn't love Juliet he was just drugged. The whole story was fake love they think they love each other but they don't. It is there teenager minds I know nothing about love but I do some stupid stuff. Juliet loves Romeo because she want to (do it). Romeo loves Juliet because he is deprested.