Lust at First Sight

What is love? That is a question with no right or wrong answer.So how is one supposes to answer if Romeo and Juliet's love was real or just a stupid one week teen romance.Nobody but Shakespeare has the answer as to how much love or lust Juliet and Romeo shared with each other, even though many say this is a play about star-crossed lovers, this is Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lusters.

To begin, Romeo moves on to fast, anyone remember Rosaline? The girl Romeo admits to be so in love with or some would say obsessed with but she never loved him back, then about four scenes later he meets Juliet and forgets that Rosaline even existed, ouch Romeo.In act one scene five is when the couple first meet at the Capulet party, they see each other from a distance meet up and flirt with each other. Romeo then runs off, while Juliet finds out that romeo is a Montague and has to have a moment to think about if Romeo is worth risking her life, but if this play was about love at first sight then Juliet wouldn't have to spend half of scene two act two debating on if she should go for him.After Juliet decides that her love for Romeo is so strong that she would die for him they plan to get married. When Romeo asks Friar to marry the two Friar says "Holy saint Fracis! What a change is here! Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,so soon foesaken? Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts,but in their eyes.jesu Maria! What a deal of brine hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline.How much salt water thrown away in waste,To season love,that of it doth not taste.the sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,thy old grons ring yet in mine ancient ears.Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit. Of an old tear that is not washed off yet.If ever thou wast thyself,and these woes thine,thou and these woes were all for Rosaline.And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentence then: Women may fall when thers no strength in me."

On the other hand they made each other happy.If they had gotten to know each other better then Romeo and Juliet would have found out how much they had in common as they both grew up is similar homes and if the two families did get along then there is no reason why Romeo and Juliet could of loved each other very much. but none of that happened Juliet was just other new passion to Romeo, they were caught up in each others looks as one can be attracted to someone at first sight but one cant be in love at first sight.Some might say that romeo and Juliet were in "love" for the thrill of being in a forbidden relationship as it makes being in "love" so much more desirable.  

 Not to mention that Romeo didn't tell any of his friends except for Friar about Juliet, they all think that Romeo is still in love with Rosaline most people who are in love run around telling every one about how much they are in love with one another, they talk about how the relationship started and when they first confessed how much they love each other. It's understandable that the relationship is banned as they come from feuding family's but Romeo should have at least said something to about getting over Rosaline as in Act two scene one Mercutio goes on about how in love romeo is with Rosaline "cry but "Ay me!" pronounce but "love" and "dove",speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, one nickname for her purblind son and heir, When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid." then the next sentence Mercutio reveals that he has been talking about Romeos thoughts on Rosaline, "The ape is dead and i must conjure him. I conjure thee by Rosalines bright eyes. 
In the end Romeo and Juliet die, leaving many unanswered questions, and even though both deaths ended in suicide does not mean they killed them selves for love it could also mean that they both have a mental illness this play was written a long time ago when there were no cures for a lot of illnesses and judging by both Romeo and Juliet's family and friends they did not have the best lives.All in all William Shakespeare did a good job at representing a teen "love" story in the way they always end, more dramatic then they should have been.

http://www.online-literature.com and my own ideas.