The Symptoms of Love

Adrian Mole describes his love in a very school boyish style. He doesn’t love her as soon as he sees her like Romeo did, but instead he begins to love her over a reasonably long period of time. He does these small things that he thinks will get her attention, so that she will notice him and love him back. When Pandora ‘goes out with Nigel’, Adrian feels sick and depressed. This could be a sign that his love is genuine for Pandora but I don’t think that it is it is just a passing thing.

Romeo’s speech and language is complicated because it was written during Shakespearean times, so we would have a bit of trouble understanding it now. The language is reasonably difficult even for the right era because Romeo is using lots of comparisons to describe Rosaline’s and Juliet’s beauty. Phrases such as ‘For beauty starved with her severity, cuts beauty off from all posterity’, which simply means that Rosaline’s beauty will not get passed on because she will not have children. Phrases such as this are quite complicated to understand and need some time to fully understand them, but when you understand them the whole play becomes very clear and in some places the words are very cleverly used. Adrian Mole uses extremely basic language, simply because he is writing in the context of a diary, and he is 13¾. His kind of writing is funny and understandable, because everybody been at that stage once in their life and you and I can easily relate to what Adrian is feeling and talking about, even if it is a load of rubbish.

I think that Adrian’s love is at the moment just lust, but if he really carries on like the way he is, there is a potential that he may really be in love. I think that Romeo was in the same situation with Rosaline as Adrian is with Pandora. He just likes the look of her, but if he carries on his feelings may develop into something more serious.

Romeos love for Juliet is deep from the start and to the end where he kills himself over her. Maybe the reason why Romeo loved Juliet from the start is because he found someone who he thought was the perfect match for him and that he felt this and wanted to love her deeply.

I feel that Adrian Mole and Romeo are in a similar situation, where they like the look of someone and that they can’t seem to get over them, and that it will develop into proper love as time progresses. I do feel quite sorry for both of them, as they love someone who appears not to love them back and rejection is the worst feeling in the world.