The development of love between Romeo and Juliet is very rapid and sudden.

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H/W        How does Romeo and Juliet’s love develop        03/05/2007

        in act 1-2

The development of love between Romeo and Juliet is very rapid and sudden. It is definitely love at first sight, or in Romeo’s case, just an aftershock after the downfall of a previous love. Both lovers have both experienced what they thought was true love; Romeo was in love with Rosaline, and Juliet was thinking of marrying Paris. This love can be seen as false love as, the moment that they set eyes upon each other their previous loves’ were all broken and a new one formed. I feel that Romeo’s love for Rosaline was actually quite strong because he was in a state of utmost depression when she left him. We do not find out much about Juliet’s love for Paris apart from the fact that she would like to meet him at the Capulet ball.

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Romeo and Juliet’s loved can be split up into four stages. These four stages occur in acts one and two.

The first time Romeo thinks of Juliet, is in a very abstract dream. In this dream, he does not directly thin of Juliet, but he thinks of a special person entering his life when he goes into the Capulet house, but this love will make him take his life. I think that this shows that their love is definitely made by fate. Romeo actually sees Juliet for the first time at the Capulet ball, and thinks that ...

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