The definition of love states that there is an intense feeling of deep affection towards another present. From reading this first act, it seems as if what Romeo was feeling towards Juliet was not love; it could have been a brief infatuation at the first moment or lust. Certainly there must have been a physical attraction. Near the end of the first act at the party the characters are attending, the reader witnesses Romeo catching sight of Juliet and seemingly forgetting Rosaline, his apparent love that could not be topped, “O, she doth teach the torches to turn bright!/ It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night/ As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear-/ Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!/” (1.5.46-49). The reader or audience learns that
