Analysis of the different types of love in Romeo and Juliet.

Love in its many forms, is an important theme in the play. The Nurse and Mercutio speak in vulgar terms about love, referring to its physical side. Romeo's love for Rosaline is simply superficial, childish infatuation. Paris represents a contractual love. He does not actually know Juliet, just her family and what she represents. He is marrying a name not a person. Juliet questions Romeo at first to his intentions, the type of love he …

…time. The whole play seems hurried, passionate and emotions runs high. Everywhere there is angry feuding, surging passion and sudden death. The unnaturalness of infatuation or false love is linked to the theme of disorder. Love and fate are also connected images. From the very start Romeo and Juliet are described, as "star-crossed" or fated to disaster and Romeo says he feels his future is "hanging in the stars and that he is " fortunes fool."