Romeo and Juliet, were They Really in Love?

He eventually agrees, and Romeo and Juliet are married. There is no way this can be characterized as a healthy relationship. Referring back to the definitions of love and infatuation, infatuation better describes Romeo and Juliet.
When Romeo hears the news of Juliet's "death" he rushes back to Verona, purchasing poison from an apothecary on the way. He enters the tomb of Juliet only to see her lifeless body. Count Paris, Juliet's husband-to-be, comes to mourn her death as well. Romeo and Paris start dueling and Romeo accidentally kills him. Paris' last request was to be laid next to Juliet as he died, so the horrified Romeo obliges. Romeo then takes the poison he bought from the apothecary to commit suicide. Juliet finally wakes, only to see Paris and her dear Romeo dead. She grabs a dagger and kills herself. Romeo and Juliet clearly committed suicide, not because they were in love, but rather, because they were desperate- to escape their troubled families and lives. Their actions definitively proved that they were not in love, but rather, they were trying to seek refuge in one another.
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