In William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters are madly infatuated with each other, but they are not truly in love. There are several differences between true love and infatuation. First, true love takes time to develop and cannot happen at "first-sight." People who are truly in love with each other have had time to learn everything about the other person and accept everything about him or her, including all of …showed first 75 words of 1185 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1185 total…true for Juliet. If they had been truly in love with each other, their love would have focussed on giving love rather than receiving it from the other person. They would not have felt that their life was not worth living without the other. In conclusion, Romeo and Juliet were not truly in love with each other, for true love requires more than mere infatuation, which was all Romeo and Juliet had for each other.