The Dangers Of Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

There are many dangers of young, rushed love such as not fully knowing your partner, or feelings of regret after you do finally get to know your partner and realise what you have committed to. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet meet and think that they are instantly in love leading them to their deaths because of their lack of knowledge of one another. Although Romeo and Juliet seem to be all grown up and ready to live alone together, they are not. They are two immature teenagers who are without common sense and by falling in love, have created a very dangerous situation for themselves and their families. First of all, Romeo and Juliet were both too immature to realise that with deep love, comes a high risk of heartache. Capulet describes his daughter Juliet to Paris by saying “My child is yet a stranger in the world,/ She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,/ Let two more summers wither in their pride,/ Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” (1.2.8-11). In this quote, Capulet, Juliet’s father, is expressing his
This leads them to impulsively make decisions that put themselves into danger. Rushing into a relationship can be dangerous and most often happens because the people involved got involved for the wrong reason such as looks or to fulfil sexual desires. Relationships and marriages should not be influenced by peer pressure or to fill a void in life such as they were in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are both immature because they coward from their problems; they lack common sense because there are many hard decisions made without deep thought, and their relationship is dangerous because it is kept private without the consent of their families. Because of Romeo and Juliet’s lacking qualities, their love is dangerous which is why they did not get the typical fairy tale ending to their love