Question

Read the following exchange between Romeo and Juliet from act I of Romeo and Juliet. What does the excerpt reveal about the love between the two young people?
ROMEO: (to JULIET) If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Answer 1

Hi! This is what I’ve wrote In my English,
Pilgrim is about someone who travels and it’s about religion. It could show what Juliet and Romeo are destined to be together/travel to each other because of a higher person ( fate )

Or, you could say that immediately in romeos eyes its about kissing someone, which could reflect on Shakespeare’s view on how young people are hasty

I hope that helped, and it’s not a load of trash
:))