Prompt: Was Romeo and Juliet's love true and strong or weak and superficial (provide examples from text)? Essay topic: Romeo and Juliet's love was weak and superficial.

Love: a strong affection for another arising out of kinship, personal ties or attractable qualities. Infatuation: a foolish, unreasoning, or extravagant passion or attraction. Dinner and a movie, the talk on the car-ride home, and the climatic goodnight kiss. This is the typical perfect date for teenagers. After this night of courting, the couple thinks they are in love, when in reality, it is just infatuation. These crushes are common with teens because the relationship …

…as weak and superficial and he did it in ways listed above. Their fondness may seem strong because throughout the play they did many things in order to be together. The climatic suicides at the end give the impression that they were done in the name of love. Or was it just that they were desperate- desperate to escape their families and troubled lives? Infatuation rather than love is what Juliet and her Romeo had.