An Adolescent's Idea Of True Love

On page 737 Romeo explains to Benvolio that Rosaline doesn't love him back. He then goes into a long speech about how he is extremely hurt and that cupid has forsaken him. Romeo even goes as far as saying that he feels like he has died after Rosaline refused his advances (739). Rosaline has so utterly destroyed Romeo’s heart that he wishes he was dead. In the play, we never even meet Rosaline, but she has affected Romeo in

Romeo is very dramatic and obsessed with love. In the beginning he is obsessed with being in love, it doesn't seem like he loves Rosaline, he just wants to be in love with someone. But by the end of the book I think he might actually love Juliet.

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

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.

To start off, Romeo should not have even gone to the Capulet party in the first place, even if it was to spy on Rosaline. As soon as he saw Juliet, he completely forgot about Rosaline. This proves he knows as much about love as Juliet does. After the party he could have just left, but no. He decides to go spy on Juliet like a creep, then climbs her balcony so they can talk and kiss more. The next day he goes to Friar Lawrence and tells him that he is over Rosaline and now he is in love with Juliet. Romeo asks if he will help them. “ In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; ” said by Friar Lawrence ( DBQ : Project , 2013). Romeo then goes and duals Tybalt, and he dies. Romeo is then banished. When this happened, Romeo had already got married to Juliet. Later on, when Romeo finds Juliet, he thinks that she is dead. He could have just waited another minute and she would have woken up, but he went and killed himself. He was so quick he did not even think. After he did this, Juliet woke up and say he was dead so she killed herself because of Romeo’s death.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. This is the dominant theme in Shakespeare 's The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, a play is about two rival noble families from Verona, the Capulets and Montagues. Indeed, the two families have such an ongoing hatred for each other that they are constantly feuding violently without end. Having had enough, Prince Escalus, the Prince of Verona, one day decrees the penalty of death to be upon the person who disrupts the peace again. It is against this vicious backdrop that Shakespeare by contrast, accentuates love in Romeo and Juliet. Three different types of love are depicted: the infatuation of Romeo, the son and heir of Montague, with a woman named Rosaline; the arranged love between Juliet, the daughter of Capulet, and Paris, a kinsman of Prince Escalus, whom Juliet’s parents have chosen to be her suitor; and ultimately, the true love between Romeo and Juliet, whose families are each other’s worst and greatest enemies.

In the very last scene of the play, Romeo goes back to Verona to go lay with his “dead” wife – who is actually under the influence of a death-like drug – after hearing from his servant about her death. He travels with his trustworthy servant all the way to the tomb, but when they reach the tomb, Romeo asks for his servant to leave. Romeo, in his obsession-driven self, threatens to tear his servant limb from limb and scatter his remains across the graveyard if he doesn’t leave Romeo. This shows that Romeo is losing himself. He isn’t just a man who likes the idea of love, he’s a man who drives himself insane with the idea of love. Even though his love for Juliet can be summed down to beauty, his mind amplifies his feelings for her. Towards the end of Act 5, Scene 3, Romeo drinks poison to “join” Juliet in her death. Romeo even goes as far as to call the poison a cordial because he believes that it will heal him – heal his pain of not being with Juliet. This shows that, Romeo’s obsessive nature made his irrational decision seem rational. A relationship to heal him from his pain of Rosaline turned into a relationship that ended with death. His mind created his feelings towards Juliet, yet he continued to let himself be deceived. His made-up passion-driven obsession with Juliet ultimately led to his

Romeo seems to be miserable as he is in love with Rosaline yet Rosaline is not in love with him. Once Romeo learns that the Capulet’s are holding a party at which Rosaline is attending he risks his life just to be with the one he loves. Romeo is passionate for love.

Romeo’s love for Juliet is caused in an instant but there substantial build up to what they feel for each other. Romeo previously loved Juliet’s cousin Rosaline. I believe the love he feels for her is true and as strong as what he feels for Juliet even if he would not admit it. If Rosaline had felt the same as Juliet did than this entire fiasco would’ve been avoided. Romeo once said when describing his love for Rosaline “Love is a smile made with the fume of sighs, Being Purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.” this is quite similar to how he has described his love for Juliet, “It is the was and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon”. I believe this proves that Romeo is just falling in love with the first women he meets in a bathroom.

His love for Juliet was very true and his love for Rosaline was maybe just a crush. The love that Romeo got for Juliet is true love not superficial like the love he got for Rosaline. Romeo

Romeo's “love” for Juliet and vice versa is not true love. For Romeo the “love” he feels for Juliet is not true, it is his heartbroken heart manifesting itself after he is rejected by Rosalin. In fact the only reason he goes to the party where he meets Juliet is because he thinks that Rosalin might be there. This quote from

Friar Lawrence is a very wise guy. He challenges Romeo when he switches the focus of his affection from Rosaline to Juliet. “Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,/So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (II.iii.66-68). Friar Lawrence does not believe that Romeo's love for Juliet is authentic. He thinks it is meaningless because it is so changeable. Just days ago, Romeo was crying his eyes out to Friar Lawrence about Rosaline. Friar makes a convincing argument that Romeo's love for Juliet could be nothing more than a small crush.

Love is defined as the intense feeling of deep affection. In the play, Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, the attraction between the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, does not factually classify as true love. Meanwhile, lust is a concept in which is commonly mistaken for love, which is very apparent throughout this classic “love story” of Romeo and Juliet. While others could debate that Romeo and Juliet’s love, was love at first sight, it is debateable that their feelings towards one another were pure lust. Romeo and Juliet are too immature to fully understand the concept of love as they are too young and hormone-driven, they were both in search for escapism from their present troubles, and they had an excessive amount of

The other did not so ( Shakespeare 804)”. This quote clearly shows that Romeo used Juliet as a replacement for Rosaline who did not return his love as Juliet did. Romeo forgets Rosaline in return for Juliet’s beauty which is further evidence that he was not in love with Juliet, only her beauty. On the other side of things, Juliet was not in love with Romeo either. “Lady Capulet: How stands your disposition to be married?

Romeo's infatuation with Rosaline does not weaken the credibility of his love for Juliet. Romeo's love for Rosaline was not real, it was temporary. But the love for Juliet was everything, they loved each other at first sight, they loved each other so much that they risked their lives for it. Firstly, the love he had for Rosaline was temporary because if he loved her like he said he did why does he fall in love with Juliet at first sight when he went to the Capulet's feast.