Role Of Love In Romeo And Juliet

The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic love story about two “lovers” who took their life for one another. Each Romeo and Juliet at some point in the play expressed a type of love for either someone or for something. Whether is be eros, agape, or phileo love.
Eros love is a type of erotic love that develops between sexual feelings. Agape is a type of love that resonates from selfless love . People show agape love through sacrifices, like Jesus. Lastly , phileo love is a type of "brotherly love". People that show phileo love strive to make other people happy without expecting something in return. Therefore , If the definition of true love is all of the loves combined , then Romeo and Juliet did not have true love.
They both shared the traits of hormonal teenagers. This leading up to the next theory. Romeo and Juliet's relationship was strictly Eros love. According to Benedict Carey in the article Watching new love as it sears the brain, “romantic love is a biological urge distinct from sexual arousal”. This meaning hormones play a big part in teenage relationships. Meaning that in order for young adults or teenagers to have a compassionate love/relationship, they have to go through the phase of sexual arousement. Since Romeo and Juliet were both so young , they didn't really know the entire concept of finding true love. They let their hormones kick into over drive during the time that they were both alive. Their “love” progresses so quickly in the play that they barely have time to learn about one another. They rarely talk except to rave about their undying love; for instance, Romeo continually dodges Juliet’s attempts at practicality, saying instead that “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,” (Romeo and Juliet 2.2. 66-67). Romeo decided he was I love with Juliet just from her looks. This given off that their attraction is simply physical and