Love and Lust

Are Romeo and Juliet really in love?

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Juliet must love Romeo (even if I'm not sure whether he is in love with her or in lust with her.) When she is given the chance to marry Paris after Romeo is "banished", she doesn't take it, even though it would have been an easy option. Therefore, i believe that Juliet loves Romeo as she chose to fake her own death and be buried in a tomb rather than take the easy way out, which she could have done.

Sometime people do just meet and click and it works and they forget everything else - that's what happens to them in this play!

I sort of agree with the other comment. I don't think Romeo is very nice. He doesn't act like he is in love, and seems to care more about the feud - when he kills Tybalt, or Paris, and even going to the ball which might be seen as likely to cause mor efighting. i don't think he knows what love is and so thinks that the initial feels are love.

i think romeo is only interested in one thing and that is sex. he asks juliet for satisfaction at the balcony, and as soon as he has had sex with her on their wedding night, he leave Verona and doesn't even try to think of another plan like staying with her in disguise.

I do think that Romeo and Juliet did rush into there relationship. Like as soon as they met they fell in love. They should have gotton to know each other before they fell in love, then they would've known each other a lot better.

I think that they rushed in too early. Juliet was only 13!! She hardly even knew what love WAS!! Plus, he was her first boyfriend/relationship, she was going to think she was in love with him, later on in life (if they had lived) she proberly would have left him because she realised that he wasn't the one after all lol. But the whole plot and story line is really good, you can really feel the characters emotions..... Still think they were too young to understand though.

Romeo's feelings are easily swapped and changed. He loves Rosaline, then Juliet. He 'loves' so passionately, so deeply, but is this just a personality trait? He is a very expressive, deep thinking young man and I believe he gets caught up in his emotions and can't control them. For Juliet, her young age could do the same for her. It's risky and rebellious, which makes it all the more exciting!

i think that they are to head over heels and should think b4 they rush into things as it was not wise for them to get married 2 days after meeting leading to their death

I think they were in love because Romeo's language at the beginning of the play was rehearsed and fake: it has no emotions whereas once he meets Juliet his words are more spontaneous and full of emotion. Furthermore the fued between the family was so large but Romeo and Julietare prepeared to walk away from the fured and there familys.

Arabelle Marie OliverSandford
Farringtons School

I think the major theme in the play is lust as at first i think it is lust between romeo and juliet as only 2 days before he was infatuated with rosilin, and what is different with julliet.... she actually likes him back. So antthe start its lust but then i think they confuse lust with true love, saying this if she truly loved him why didnt she just run away when he was banished... this would mean not caring what her parents thought and not caring about the consiquences.