With Paris we can see Dutiful Love. He is very affectionate but has no hint of passion. He would not risk his life or die for Juliet, but he would defend her. He is a respectable young man and does respect Lord And Lady Capulet's decision to leave the wedding until Juliet is older before marrying her. He welcomes the idea of an arranged marriage. At first Juliet's parents react differently towards this proposed marriage, the mother is more in favour of it and the father is against it. Lord Capulet tells Paris that they will meet and if they both agree then they will get married. Lady Capulet is more in favour because this was how it was for her when she was Juliets age. She got married at a young age and even had children. She wants Juliet to be a reflection of her. We sympathize for Paris at the end because he died trying to defend Juliet and he was rewarded for this by being placed next to her in the grave.
Another type of love that we see in this play is Sexual Love. This type of love gets the person attracted to the physical form of the individual. We can first see this when Romeo goes to the Capulet's masquerade. It is somewhat surprising how quickly Romeo falls in love with Juliet at first sight, because just a few minutes before he was love sick for Rosaline. At first it seems that what he feels for Juliet is infatuation. 'O she doth teach the torches to turn bright. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Eihiop's ear! Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, for I ne'er saw true beauty till this night! '. Sexual love is also seen in the first scene when Paris was commenting on Juliet. He did not know Juliet and had not talked to her before, and was impressed with her based on her physical appearance only. We also see that the Nurse believes in Sexual Love as she comments on Paris' appearance when she is talking about him to Juliet. From this, physical appearance seems to be something that love can be based on.
There is also Parental Love. In the Capulet family we see that Lady Capulet is not much of a mother to Juliet because she is never there for her. You could say that the Nurse is more of a mother to Juliet because Juliet always confides in the Nurse before her mother. The Nurse is a very caring and loving woman and is always there for Juliet's needs. We see that Lord Capulet is the classic father of that time, hardly spending anytime with his children and whatever he said, was done. This is best seen when he orders his daughter to marry Paris, even though she did not agree with it.
We see that both Romeo and Juliet find it easier to speak to non-relatives about their feelings. This is shown throughout the play with Juliet confiding in the Nurse and Romeo in the Friar. This is probably because they feel that these will understand them more and they can feel comfortable talking to them.
The last love we encounter is True Love, which outshines all the other types of love. This love is felt between the two main characters of the play, Romeo and Juliet. According to Shakespeare these are, 'Star-crossed lovers ', and the use of the word, 'Star ', is appropriate to capture the importance of love. We find that True love is one of the strongest loves in the play. Romeo and Juliet loved each other too much to forget or leave each other. Through hard times they still carried on, and it was tremendously hard to break them up. We witnessed this when Romeo was exiled and still broke into Verona just to see and save her. This was extremely dangerous because if he would have been caught, he would have been murdered. When you look back at all the deaths in the play, you see that Romeo or Julet had something to do with it. Even Romeo killing Juliet's cousin Tybalt could not seperate or stop the love between Romeo and Juliet. They still stuck together after all of the troubles that they went through.
Finally in this play we see that love is not always good, it brought together many unnecessary problems, it led to disapointment and even death. It made Romeo and Juliet consider suicide because they though that it was not going to work out in the end. Even though love brought all these bad things to the play, it did bring some good at the end. The tension between the Capulets And Montagues was finally restored and both families decided that all the fighting that had happened was pointless. It is a shame that it took the death of two lovers to restore peace in Verona because if there was no tension between the Capulets and The Montagues, then there would not have been this much hassle.
