Essay - Romeo And Juliet

Romeo And Juliet

“Romeo and Juliet is a play about two silly, immature teenagers who lack common sense.  Therefore, the play expresses the danger of a love in which two people become the whole world to one another.”  To what extent do you agree or disagree?

The story of Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy.  The two lovers go against their families and against their hate to be together but they don’t think about the consequences, which in the end are devastating.

    Romeo and Juliet engage in a love that they believe is the one true love.  They don’t even know each other and don’t know each others personality so they can only be attracted sexually.  Instead of taking things slowly and getting to know each other or on the other hand engage in a type of relationship just to satisfy each others desires they act like they have known each other for a long time and that they can’t live one without the other.

    At the start of the play we see that Romeo is in love with Roseline and that he only talks about her but when he meets Juliet at the party he totally forgets Roseline and falls in love with Juliet.

 Friar Laurence clearly states this to Romeo:

“Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes”. 

This is exactly how Romeo behaves.  Juliet on the other hand had to marry Count Paris so her love with Romeo is simply a way to get out of it.  She never had a relationship with a man and she didn’t like to have her first and only relationship with a man her parents arranged for her.  She wanted freedom and Romeo was her ticket to it. 

During the story Romeo and Juliet convince them selves to be in love with each other and they become obsessed, not with the love for each other, but with the fact of being in love with each other.  Young people like to do forbidden things it gives them a feeling of exhilaration and freedom and that’s exactly what Romeo and Juliet were doing. They did what they were not supposed to be doing without thinking about the consequences and simply hoping for the best.  In the end their acts concluded to their own deaths.