Title: What are Juliet's ideas of love and marriage in act I in Romeo and Juliet? - eNotes.com
Headings: What are Juliet's ideas of love and marriage in act I in
Romeo and Juliet?

Romeo and Juliet
What are Juliet's ideas of love and marriage in act I in Romeo and Juliet?
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Content: I'll look to like, if looking liking move,
But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly. ( 1.iii.99-101)
At this point, Juliet’s attitude towards marriage is about duty and obedience to her parents. The concept of love doesn’t even enter into the equation. That changes when Romeo enters the picture. Suddenly, Juliet’s heart is involved. The ensuing romance is heady, intense, passionate, and full of angst. The forbidden aspect of the whole affair gives it a titillating thrill that tosses it from a summer flirtation up to a romance of epic proportions. At the end of scene 5, Juliet is convinced that she is in love with a young lad she’d met only that night, a lad who is not only not Paris, but who is also the only son of her father’s greatest enemy. Although it wouldn’t be fair to downplay Romeo’s charm and physical attributes, I would say that circumstances have as much to do with Juliet’s feelings as any “love at first sight” chemistry do. Juliet is about to be pushed into a monumental change in her life that she is not sure she wants, and is ripe for rebellion in the matter.