“From the fatal loins of these two enemies, two cursed lovers take life” (I prologue 5-6). Romeo and Juliet is known by many as a love story, but what if it wasn't a love story but a story of obsession and despair. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is from the Capulet family. The two families have been feuding for many years. In this story, Romeo and Juliet become obsessed with the feeling of being in love. They will go to extremes to be together, until death. Romeo is obsessed with a committed nun named Rosaline, about whom he cries several times at the beginning of the play. He says to his cousin (Benvolio): “She is too beautiful, too wise, wisely too beautiful to deserve happiness by making me despair/Am I alive dead to say it now” (I i 217-220 ). In this he says that she will always be a virgin and this gives her little will to live, which brings suicidal thoughts closer. This is an example of obsession because Romeo states that he is deeply hurt by not being able to be with Rosaline and is considering suicide when in reality he does not know that he is with Rosaline....