On Thursday we watched excerpts from the 1996 film Romeo and Juliet. When I look at the film critically, I feel as though Sternberg’s Model of Love would describe the love of Romeo and Juliet as fatuous love. The three factors that the model takes into account are intimacy, passion, and commitment. In order for consummate love to exist, all three factors must come into play. In Romeo and Juliet, I think that there is definitely passion between the two. They also show clear commitment to each other by taking their own lives to be together. However, you do not see a lot of intimacy. The young love birds hardly knew each other long enough to ask the other’s favourite colour, let alone have a truly intimate conversation. All that said, I do not think that the label of fatuous love makes their love any less real. What Romeo and Juliet had was enough for them, and had they spent more time together their love surely would have developed. I think that that is very important to remember when discussing Sternberg’s Model of Love. Even if a couple can be placed on the triangle at one moment, their relationship is constantly changing and fluctuation, and no point on the model is necessarily better than another.
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