Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is a play detailing the search for love between a boy and girl in rivaling families. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families who live in Verona, Italy in the 14th century. Romeo is the son of the Montagues, and Juliet is the only child of the Capulets. All members of the family's fight, all the way down to the servants. Romeo had found what he saw as his only love and her name was rosaline. Juliet was unsure if she wanted an arranged marriage, witch her mother wanted. Capulet, juliet's father wanted her to find true love. Paris wanted to marry Juliet and had asked for capulets approval, but Capulet replied “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,/My will to her consent is but a part;/An she agree, within her scope of choice/Lies my consent and fair according voice.”. He wanted Juliet to agree to the marriage. Capulet had hosted a party, and Romeo was not invited, but he decided to go anyway. While there he met juliet, and forgot all about Rosaline. Juliet also fell in love. Juliet rushed up to her maid and told her …show more content…
Romeo's first love Rosaline, makes him go crazy. Romeo can't sleep, and is in a state of depression. And his whole life is being changed because of a feeling of love. Romeo’s love for rosaline changes how he acts, Benvolio, his best friend, notices that Romeo has changed. Compared to other boys his age the feeling of love for another person has changed him. His friends think he is crazy because of his obsession with his new girl. Benvolio convinces Romeo to go to the masquerade, and while there he falls in love with Juliet. He doesn't care about rosaline, or that fact that she is younger than him. At that moment he was being driven by love. Instant passion for one girl drives his life, first with Rosaline, and second with Juliet. His feelings of love differ from most boys his age, he allows it to rule his
Romeo is impacted a lot because of the lack of empathy from Benvolio. Romeo is on his way back home and he sees his cousin Benvolio and his father leaving. Romeo is upset and Benvolio tries to find out what it is. Romeo is sad because Rosaline doesn’t love him back and he is madly in love with her. Benvolio tries to help by saying, “Be ruled by me, forget to think of her…
Romeo is a melodramatic 16-year old that lets his downheartedness over Rosaline take over when he sees Juliet. Romeo is unhappy, as Rosaline decided to stay chaste, and then he meets Juliet and he sees that she is looks attractive and wants to make irresponsible decisions. Romeo gives a perfect example of his irresponsible, lustful identity when he says this, “Did my heart love till now? / Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night”(Shakespeare,
Romeo was infatuated with Rosaline, who paid no attention to him whatsoever, which in turn made Romeo depressed and desperate for mutual feelings. His friend, Benvolio, tells Romeo to go to the party to get over his love-sick feelings for Rosaline, and at said party he sees Juliet, a “Saint/Angel” — words he would have used for Rosaline. Romeo immediately becomes obsessed with Juliet despite declaring his love to
The play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about a tragedy of two star crossed lovers who want nothing more than to be together forever. “…Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” (2.2.35-36) Romeo, a Montague, who is young and passionate, meets Juliet at a Capulet party. When they meet, it’s love at first sight. Juliet, a Capulet, is a beautiful young lady tired of being controlled by her father, Lord Capulet. The two families are in a never ending feud that comes between Romeo and Juliet’s love. In the course of four and a half days, Romeo and Juliet plan their marriage with the help of Priest Friar Laurence and Juliet’s Nurse. After the couple is married,
He is affected negatively by the unreciprocated love; Romeo is very depressed and the other characters know this. During a scene with Benvolio, Romeo says he is “out of love where I am in love”, when his cousin suggests he try stop wallowing in his misery Romeo replies with “thou canst not teach me how to forget”. Romeo is masochistic in his loyalty towards Rosaline even though the feelings are not mutual. Romeo’s attraction towards Rosaline is constantly described with dark imagery, exhaustion, and sadness, all of which are further ties to the depression that goes hand in hand with Romeo’s love for Rosaline.
In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare characterizes Romeo’s character to be both impulsive and immature in things that include love and things that don’t include love. Romeo’s rash behavior and hasty decisions are one the reasons for the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. Despite Romeo and Juliet both being the heirs of two enemies, they fall in love rather quickly, forgetting hardships that would come, proving that it’s better to think before you act. Before Romeo meets Juliet, he is in love with Rosaline, so much so that when she rejects him, he mourns for her, acting unhappy and downhearted.
However, at the party he meets Juliet for the first time, and immediately falls in love with her: “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Romeo, who was in love with Rosaline until a moment ago, completely forgets about her and is now all focused on Juliet. But what is very surprising is not the fact that he is in love with his enemy’s daughter, the astonishing thing is the speed at which he falls in love with her. Soon, in fact, he and Juliet kiss each other: “Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.” However, Romeo’s characteristics to love so deeply Juliet is just a symbol of his lacking the capacity of moderation for intense feelings of all kind. Had Romeo stopped himself from being so deeply caught up by Juliet’s beauty, the tragedy would have never happened.
The play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about two teenagers who danced together and fell in love at a masquerade ball hosted by Juliet's father, Lord Capulet. Both Capulets and Montagues family had a deep hatred for each other, this led to Romeo and Juliet having to hide their relationship from their parents. The two decided that they were going to get married in secret, but Romeo ended up getting banished from Verona. Lord Capulet decided that he would let another man named Paris, who was a prince, marry Juliet. Lord Capulet did not know about her marriage to Romeo.
Romeo is portrayed as an emotional and reckless character. His friend Mercutio and Fr. Lawrence comment on Romeo’s fickle attitude when he immediately falls in love with Juliet completely forgetting about Rosaline, his first love. Romeo quotes,” Did my heart love until now? Foreswear it sight, for I never saw true beauty until this night”. His love for Rosaline was superficial. Juliet transforms Romeo’s immature and erotic infatuation to true and constant love. After meeting Juliet he matures very quickly. Maybe Romeo’s love for Juliet is so intense because unlike Rosaline, Juliet reciprocates his
He is heartbroken that Rosaline does not return the love he has for her and prone to becoming fond of another woman. As shown in Act 1 of the play, fate manipulates Romeo and Juliet into a lovesick relationship that can only lead to a very tragic end.
Shakespeare thus portrays Romeo and his love as an infatuation. This infatuation is evident in how instantaneously Romeo falls out of love with Rosaline and into love with Juliet. At one stage, Rosaline was the “precious treasure of his eyesight”, yet Romeo’s embodiment of perfection was, a few scenes later, his notion of defectiveness. This therefore reveals to the audience the instantaneous and reckless path of the two lovers, as well as the fickleness of adolescent “love”, diminishing at the sight of
Love is an important theme in most of Shakespeare’s play, including in Romeo and Juliet because love is a stronger force than all the animosity and forces of fate in Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s play, Shakespeare explores Romeo’s change in attitude to love between Rosaline and Juliet. In Act 1 Scene 1 Shakespeare introduces us to Romeo’s passionate desire towards Rosaline through the use of oxymoron, monologues and vivid imagery. In contrast, in Act 2 Scene 2, when Romeo is addressing Juliet, his language shifts through the use of light, religious and mythical imagery to reflect his newly found romantic love to Juliet.
Moreover, Romeo through his infatuation with Rosaline learned valuable lessons that help him come to appreciate and understand the feelings he experiences with Juliet. Romeo felt rejection, sorrow, and misery from his infatuation with Rosaline which is seen when he is talking to Benvolio, “In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman” this particular quote shows the sadness or sorrow he feels from the feelings for Rosaline (1.1.201). Also when he says “She hath forsworn to love”, the words Romeo speaks allow it to be inferred that his feelings for her have been rejected (1.1.220). “At the opening of the play [Romeo] is maundering about like an erotic woman novelist, sighing and groaning because Rosaline will not listen to his tenders of affection” revealing that Romeo’s love was rejected and was upset because of this, allowing him to learn these feelings and what it is like to be rejected by the one he had feelings for (Northwood 19). Due to having felt these emotions from his infatuation, when he finds his love for Juliet and receives love and acceptance from her. Since he went so long, feeling sorrow and rejection when he finally finds Juliet, he can fully appreciate the love and acceptance he is given which intensifies his love for her and does the opposite of weakening the credibility of his love. Through his infatuation with Rosaline, he was able to grow as a person and become able to fully commit to his love for Juliet.
In the beginning of the play, Romeo is young and carefree, he loves Rosaline and then Juliet. He is in love with the fact that he is in love. Romeo in this case is the tragic hero, his tragic flaw is his immaturity and fickle traits. Benvolio and Mercutio make fun of Romeo in the beginning because he is always in love. Romeo goes to this party thinking that no girl is prettier than Rosaline, but when he goes and meets Juliet he thinks she is the most beautiful, and that fate brought them together. Romeo acts on this fate to make it permanent despite the several obstacles. Romeo says before the party at the Capulet’s, “I fear, too early, for my mind misgives-Some consequence yet hanging in the stars-shall bitterly begin
Romeo is shown to be poetic and romantic. He and his friends are on their way to the Capulet party when his friends encourage him to dance, but he refuses. He is still sad about Rosaline, the woman he loves. She doesn’t love him back as she has plans to become a nun. Romeo says, “Is love really