This is not true love in the way most people think it is, their “love” is a form of lust and desire. Romeo and Juliet are just out of puberty, their desires had very much formed their obsession. Romeo’s desires are what drove his obsession about Rosaline. It was after Rosaline chose to be a nun that Romeo had lost interest. Romeo had told Benvolio, “For beauty starved with her severity/ Cuts beauty off from all posterity” (I i 205-206). Romeo realized that he would be unable to marry or have children with Rosaline, and so he moved on to someone else. Lust even caused their haste in Romeo’s marriage to Juliet. Friar Lawrence had said it best, “young men's love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (II iii
This is not true love in the way most people think it is, their “love” is a form of lust and desire. Romeo and Juliet are just out of puberty, their desires had very much formed their obsession. Romeo’s desires are what drove his obsession about Rosaline. It was after Rosaline chose to be a nun that Romeo had lost interest. Romeo had told Benvolio, “For beauty starved with her severity/ Cuts beauty off from all posterity” (I i 205-206). Romeo realized that he would be unable to marry or have children with Rosaline, and so he moved on to someone else. Lust even caused their haste in Romeo’s marriage to Juliet. Friar Lawrence had said it best, “young men's love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (II iii