Because it came on so fast. She fears it will also disappear as fast.
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"too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say 'It lightens' "
Juliet is comparing the short-lived nature of lightning to the sudden arrival of love that fades quickly. She is emphasizing the fleeting and unpredictable nature of romantic feelings.
Before the Balcony scene, Romeo compares Juliet to Rosaline by stating that Juliet's beauty outshines that of Rosaline and makes him forget all about his previous love for Rosaline. He expresses how Juliet's beauty has captured his heart completely, in contrast to Rosaline who rejected his love.
The tone of Juliet's quote is conflicted and hesitant. She expresses joy in her love for Romeo, but also voices concern and apprehension about the suddenness and recklessness of their relationship. Juliet compares their love to lightning, suggesting that it is intense but fleeting.
English 10, Romeo and Juliet, Paragraph Topics. Act I, Scenes 3-5: 1. Compare the love that Romeo feels for Juliet to the love that he felt for Rosaline. (2.) Trace how fate has brought the two lovers together.
Romeo and Juliet are wanting to rush and get married because they love each other. Teenagers today are about to express their love to someone without wanting to get married.
Taylor uses things from the great Shakespeare story in her song
Romeo's love for Rosaline is superficial and conventional. His love for Juliet is real. With Rosaline he is playing the game of the male lover dying of love because the female is refusing him, in the hopes that he will eventually wear her down and get some nookie. With Juliet, he has committed his life to her service, and will act only for her benefit, and if she is dead he will no longer have a reason to live. That's real love.
In the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet, she did not love Paris, but it seemed that Paris loved Juliet or was deeply obseesed with her that he would ask for her hand in marriage.
Juliet alluded to the changing and unpredictable nature of the wind in her comment on quick love. She likened quick love to a sudden gust of wind that can come and go swiftly, emphasizing the fleeting and transient nature of such intense feelings.