The Tragedy Of Lust In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The tragedy of Romeo & Juliet The question has been thrown around that if Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are really in love or in lust. This is a question many readers ask themselves after reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. There are a number of moments in the play that seem to suggest that the main characters might not understand the true nature of love. Romeo and Juliet's relationship show readers their immaturity and superficial infatuation with each other because the two only knew each other for four days, Romeo is just pining over Rosaline, and they are too young and immature to fully grasp the concept of love.
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet the main characters were only in love for four days. Less than a week is definitely not enough time to fully fall in love with someone. After knowing each other for such little time they had already broken the rules, rebelled against their own families, got married, and killed themselves for each other. The upside to their deaths is that it ended their families feud. But they were already planning on running away from their family and friends to live happily ever after even though once again, they only knew each other for four days.
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Hours before Romeo got accidentally invited to the Capulet party, he is pining over Rosaline. He is depressed about Rosaline and explaining to Benvolio of how much he is in love with her. Romeo exclaims “For beauty starved with her severity, Cuts beauty off from all posterity. She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair.” Then he is informed about the Capulet party where he meets Juliet for the first time and he instantly becomes head over heels for her. That party is also the place where Romeo found out Juliet was a Capulet and Juliet found out Romeo was a