and Juliet, William Shakespeare Page: 1 Words: 613 Published: 29 April 2022 Downloads: 43. Love means saying goodbye to expectations. So here are the characteristics of REAL love: 1. But is it true It should be, but so many people confuse love with things like jealousy or possessiveness. The characters experience a simple “crush”, a brief but intense infatuation for someone, especially someone unattainable or inappropriate. Romeo and Juliet: an Example of True Love. It makes the world go 'round, right Well, at least that's the how the saying goes. This dynamic clearly resembles a stereotypical high school relationship portrayed in classic American teen films, like Mean Girls, Can’t Buy Me Love, and Thirteen Going On Thirty. Their “love” is far too passionate for knowing one another for just a few short days. This being said, the reader must ask themself, “are two children capable of being mature enough to truly fall in love?” While some may answer yes, the reality of this is that Romeo, considered to be a young adult in this time period, in more mature than Juliet, who is still known to be a meer child. Juliet has not even turned fourteen, the common age of marriage during the fourteenth century, during these events. Romeo is known to be roughly sixteen or seventeen years old when these events take place. Romeo’s quickness to fall out of love with Rosaline- whom he was just crying over in the woods, further proves that he is simply infatuated with Juliet, just as she is with him. Romeo quickly gets over Rosaline in Act I, Scene V when he lays eyes on Juliet at a party in the Capulet hall. A poetic attempt by William Shakespeare to persuade the readers about the characteristics of a true love. We first see Romeo heartbroken over Rosaline of Capulet, his former lover who made the decision to become a nun, in Act I, Scene I. This is a common theme in the story of Romeo and Juliet in its entirety. Being in love relates to the depths of one’s psyche and the unity of two souls.īecause infatuation is typically based on an initial, physical attraction, the infatuated pair tends to not think about the world around them but instead focus on their newfound chemistry. Infatuation is often based on physical attraction alone. To the eye, these definitions seem to work together, hand in hand, but on the contrary. To be in love means to care for someone very much in a romantic way. ![]() Being in love, however, is quite different from infatuation Extremely different in all honesty. What does it mean to be infatuated? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, infatuation is a feeling of foolish or obsessively strong love for, admiration for, or interest in someone or something: strong and unreasoning attachment. Before understanding what “being in love” and “infatuation” mean for Romeo and Juliet, one must understand these definitions without the context of the script.
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