Romeo And Juliet Literary Analysis

Love is a feeling which is essential to everyone; it is the singular characteristic that brings people together and influences people to jointly spend their lives. Love, being such an astounding emotion, can only be grasped with time. However, lust is a feeling consisting of only strong sexual desire for his/her partner. Shakespeare’s play, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” illustrates the two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, in a relationship driven by the characters’ infatuation, not love. In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo’s past relationship with Rosaline as well as Romeo and Juliet’s immaturity within their relationship proves their feelings for each other are lustful, not amorous. To begin, Romeo’s compatible feelings for Rosaline substantiates that Romeo and Juliet are influenced by lust. This indistinguishable quality is seen through both of Romeo’s relationships. First, it is observed when Romeo is grieving over his love for Rosaline. In I.I.181, Romeo’s sorrowful weeps, “ O brawling love, O loving hate”, exemplify his mourning for Rosaline. Although he comes off as depressed, merely a day later, while discussing his new infatuation for Juliet, Romeo says, “ Doth grace for grace and love for love allow/ The other did not so” (II.III.92-93). Thus, he is explaining how his past love, Rosaline, did not love him
Romeo’s phase of adolescence causes him to go through escapism; making him look for a fantasy to help him break away from reality. Sadly, a young girl, Juliet, is this escape, and when Romeo saw the opportunity he took it. His ludicrous, adolescent driven thoughts, stemming from his immaturity, made these feelings for Juliet, not actual love. To conclude, Romeo and Juliet are not in love; instead, their immature, adolescent minds instill lustful emotions evidently seen through their immature relationship and