Comparing Friar Lawrence's Presentation Of Love In Romeo And Juliet
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Yet Romeo’s love seems superficial as in Act 2 scene 3 he soon abandons his love for Rosaline and becomes infatuated with Juliet instead. Friar Laurence tells him, “So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/Not truly in their heart but in their eyes.” He is concerned that Romeo is only in love with Juliet, because she is beautiful, and is a love that is unlikely to last as it is based purely on lust. However Friar Lawrence agrees to marry them in the hope that it would unite the two feuding families. By including Friar Laurence’s objections to the rushed marriage of Juliet and Romeo Shakespeare seems to be sending out a caution on lust, that it leads to shallow love without substance and a real foundation. Another character that behaves this way is Lydia from Pride and prejudice, who runs away from home with a soldier in chapter 46, with whom she falls in love with while on a trip. “She was gone off to Scotland with one of the officers; to own the truth, with Wickham... So imprudent a match on both sides!” Such behaviour brought shame on the families in the Elizabethan period and made it impossible for her sisters to get married. Lydia and Wickham’s marriage was based on good looks and youthfulness, as a result of this their love is unlikely to last. Eventually they will both lose their good looks and as a result, their love for one another.…show more content… This is revealed in the book when Lydia starts to visit her sister more frequently when her husband goes away on his numerous fun filled trips, "her husband was gone to enjoy himself in London or