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Who loved whom more - Romeo or Juliet? In my opinion, Juliet loved Romeo more than he loved her because her love was more intense. Juliet was not Romeo's first love, so that "first time" beauty of love didn't apply to Romeo. Juliet had not fallen in love before so her love for him was way stronger because it was her first time. Romeo had loved before, Juliet had not. In Act 1, Scene 5, Juliet says, "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and too known to hate. Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy." Juliet instantly fell in love with Romeo even when she knew that he was her enemy. She couldn't stop dreading over the fact that she wanted to be with Romeo but he was a "Montague." In Act 3, Scene 1, Romeo had killed Tybalt. When the nurse delivered the news to Juliet she was more worried about Romeo than Tybalt. She was automatically on Romeos side even though he was the one that shed her cousins blood. "That villain cousin would have killed my husband. Back foolish tears, back to your native spring... My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain; And Tybalts dead, that would have slain my husband." …show more content…
She automatically wanted to kill herself before the Friar even told her his plan. She automatically knew she couldn't live without Romeo. "But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed. Come cords; come nurse. I'll take you to my wedding bed; And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!" Juliet cried so much that her father thought it was tears for Tyablt so he wanted Paris to marry Juliet to take her mind off of Tybalt. Juliet did not like the idea at all and was so desperate going to try everything, even kill herself, to not marry Paris. At the end of the play Juliet ended up killing herself anyways because Romeo had killed himself. She could have stayed alive but she could not live with the thought of Romeo being

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