"Love at first sight" is a concept explored in many plays, novels, poems, movies, and songs. It is the ultimate connection with another person, an instantaneous bond formed even before words are exchanged. This instant attraction is always billed as being more than mere sexual lust, and as equally felt on either side of the match. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, the title characters are traditionally thought to have experienced …showed first 75 words of 336 total…

…showed last 75 words of 336 total…a deep depression and believes that he will never love again, telling Benvolio "thou canst not teach me to forget". He is only brought out of it when he sees Juliet. At first glance Romeo believes he is seeing angel, and completely forgets about Rosaline. Similarly, in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Alexander is fickle with his women. He is in need of great release - sexually and emotionally. His way of venting through women a