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Romeo and Juliet- what is true love?

A few days ago in class while reading Romeo and Juliet, we stumbled upon the question “What is true love?” I look up the definition of love and I found out that the literal meaning of love is “strong passionate feeling towards another. This definitely fits Romeo’s description of falling in love. But just wait on sec, real life is not just a play of words. The connotation we associate with love now is somewhere along the lines of being “mutually fond of each other”. Now we look back at Romeo’s case, his first “target” was Rosaline. He loved her deeply, but we do not know if she loves him back. Technically he is in love, according to the literal meaning of love. But then again, he is in the real world, or at least his character is, and since Rosaline did not visibly love him back, we can say he was not in love, but just very attracted to her. Later on he met Juliet, which is a different story now. They both are deeply attracted to each other, causing this love to be mutual, thus filling the requirement of “true love”