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- Shakespeare describes love in terms of sight and appearances. Romeo and Juliet’s love is blind, they first meet at a ball, where Romeo is “covered in an antic face” and Juliet’s identity is unknown to him. Their first meeting is love at first sight. Romeo has “ne’er saw true beauty till this night” and this shows their love’s dependency on sight.
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Romeo begins the play in love with Rosaline, but his language in these opening scenes shows us that his first love is less mature than the love he will develop for Juliet. This couplet combines two ideas that were already clichés in Shakespeare’s day: “love is blind” and “love will find a way.”
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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. As maids call medlars when they laugh alone. An open-arse, or thou a popp’rin pear! The line echoes the familiar proverb, "love is blind." As Benvolio puts it, since Romeo's love is blind, it does just as well in the darkness of the orchard.
In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio's words in Act II on the blindness of love take on a contradictory meaning when juxtaposed with the words of Romeo from Act I: Alas that love, whose view is muffled...
Mar 3, 2020 · Romeo and Juliet’s love is blind, they first meet at a ball, where Romeo is “covered in an antic face” and Juliet’s identity is unknown to him. Their first meeting is love at first sight. Romeo has “ne’er saw true beauty till this night” and this shows their love’s dependency on sight.
Alas, poor Romeo! He is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black eye, shot through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt shaft. And is he a man to encounter Tybalt?
If love is blind, it can’t hit the target. He’ll sit under a medlar tree and wish his love were one of its fruits, which women, when they’re alone, joke look like female genitals. Oh, Romeo, I wish she were one such fruit!
In plain language, it was love who made him ask himself where Juliet might be and who told him he should find her; in return for love's good advice, Romeo gave love (who is blind) eyes to find her. In the same scene Juliet describes her love as spiritual wealth.
