Lust In Romeo And Juliet

Stories have always been a very important form of entertainment and date back countless millennia. A specific type of story, a love story, shows the audience of love, and teaches them something about it. The story of Romeo and Juliet is a widely known Shakespearean tragedy and love story. The play is about two teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love or lust, depending upon how the audience sees it. The two believe they cannot be together because their two families, the Montagues (Romeo), and the Capulets (Juliet), are fighting. The two lovers are only in the relationship for sex, meaning they are not truly in love. Eventually, the two get married (in secret), causing problems, like them going to hell if they marry again. Later that day,
Throughout the play the couple is craving sex from the each other, but never stop and think if what they are doing is worth the consequences, “Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe’s debt.” (I, V, 120-121) Here is a quote of Romeo saying that he is in debt to the Capulets for bringing Juliet to him, even though he has only just met her. This is an immature exaggeration of what is true. The two don’t just say things that are not worth the consequences, the two actually do the things they say. In Juliet’s case, she agrees to marry Romeo. By doing this, she needs to be with him for the rest of their lives, or she will be condemned to hell. Also, she cannot marry again, and her father already has a plan to marry her off in place for her. She is also risking having her father realize whatshe has done, who will be extremely angry, as his plan is to wed her to the best bachelor in Verona, Paris. For Romeo, he marries Juliet, and is risking being caught by Lord Capulet, having the best swordsman in Verona, Tybalt, find out and kill him, or cause another fight to break out between the Capulets and Montagues. In conclusion, the lust they have for eachother is causing them to make bad, foolish choices, and is not