What do you think?
Romeo and Juliets relationship was based on true love?
OR
Romeo and Juliets relationship was based on lust and passion?
Please give you opinions and reasons why!!!
I need help for my english class!!!
2007-03-05 18:24:24 · 9 answers · asked by Faye 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I think that the love of Romeo and Juliet was more of an infatuation than what you would consider true love. As the play progressed, though, I believe that it grew into love. But it did not begin that way. They sacrificed everything that they had to be with one another, and avoid the feud with their families.
As for lust and passion, I do not think that was a factor. I'm sure Romeo thought that Juliet was beautiful, and vice versa, but not based upon a sexual desire. You must remember how old these two characters are, they are barely teenagers. They are too innocent to base their relationship on such things.
2007-03-06 13:03:05 · answer #1 · answered by cdaae663 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romeo and Juliet were in puppy love. They did not know what love really was, and did not have the time to get to know each other. In that day and age real love was something that just about no one experienced, people had to marry who their parents chose for them, so having a relationship that was based on physicality like Romeo and Juliet's made them think it was love. We will never know if it could have become true love, but it was an infatuation. Real passionate love takes more time and getting to know each other. I just think that they didn't have the time to get there.
Also Romeo is fickle, he is known to be swayed by a pretty face, so he may have stuck it out longer with Juliet if they had lived, but who is to say 6 months down the line with Juliet pregnant if he would have gone chasing the next hot girl he saw.
I find the real tragedy of the story is that they both felt like they didn't have any other choice other than death. Both felt like they could not live without the other, and that their families would never accept them. With time you never know what could happen, but they never got that chance.
It just always sounds like two teenagers (which it was) who fell in puppy love but never really got to know each other and felt like the relationship was worth their lives.
2007-03-05 18:44:31 · answer #2 · answered by Lady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romeo and Juliet's relationship was based on love. They died for each other. In the era that it's set in, adolescents DID NOT disobey their parents/families for such trivial things, so for them to completely go against everything they've been taught and forbidden, just to spend a little time together is a great testament to the nature of their relationship. When Juliet "died", Romeo was in such despair, he couldn't bear to live in a where he couldn't be with her. So, if he could only be with her in death, he was going to do it.
2007-03-05 18:30:22 · answer #3 · answered by Ty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See, this is something I don't understand about Shakespeare, love him though I do (I think he was the basis for a lot of the modern Love@FirstSight crap movies that began emerging in Hollywood years after he died.) Most of his characters fall in love in an instant -the glimpse of a rosy cheek, or whatever... so it wouldn't be reasonable to say that they fall in "true love" it's more like that guy you have a crush on because of his fantastic eyes or jawline definition -it's more lust and passion. And then these two R&J barely got to know each other (even though they were willing to move the Heavens to be together) -SO like young teens who elope... not because of true love, but instant passion. STILL, if the Bard HAD written scenes of R&J getting to know each other... would the play have had the impact that it did? Would it BE one of the epitomies of romance of our time?
2007-03-05 19:13:36 · answer #4 · answered by Arsengal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well trying to get what i rember from my english class ill try to help, but it was more than a few years since ive read the book. i would have to say romeo probably in lust due to the time setting of when the book was writen and marrige was still more an act for show than love. the fact they sleep together the first night they meet didnt help the situation ehter and although they did die because of eachother it was more probably due to romeo not wanting to get pegged for the death of julet for the familys were already fuding. julet could of been in love but also could of comitied suicided from the death of a person because of her. she was proabably a very needy woman because she was willing to start a relationship so fast and emotionaly unstable..
although the book was probably a book of love your englidh teacher porabably would give you some brownie points for going against the main way the book is veiwed
2007-03-05 18:43:32 · answer #5 · answered by punktillies 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IT was not "puppy love" but real love. They disobeyed their parents, which was unheard of in such days, just so they could see each other and enjoy each others company. It was not based on lust and passion, as it was custom to get married quickly in those days, and they only had intercourse once.
2007-03-05 18:34:20 · answer #6 · answered by Nick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe their relationship was based on lust and passion. If you look at the company that Shakespeare had around him when writing, they were of the promiscuous type. In fact, plays when he was alive were meant to appeal to the lower class and were based on stereotypes concerning the lower class, so lust and passion were most prevalent.
2007-03-05 18:35:31 · answer #7 · answered by Cartese 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it was puppy love.
2007-03-05 18:30:41 · answer #8 · answered by Maria 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lust and passion. they were kids.
2007-03-05 18:39:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋