Romeo and Juliet

    I don’t really believe in love at first sight. After all, how could you know anything about a person’s character from just looking at them? The first time Romeo and Juliet meet, the attraction is most likely simply physical. Romeo says in line 48 of act 1 scene 5, “Beauty too rich for use, for Earth too dear.” However, by the time Romeo is banished, Juliet states in lines 84-88 of act 4 scene 1, “Or bid me go into a new-made grave and hide me with a dead man in his tomb- Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble- And I will do it without fear or doubt, to live an unstained life to my sweet love.” Why would she say this if she were not truly in love? Why would they both end up killing themselves if they were not truly in love?