Before Romeo met Juliet that night at the party he believed he had known romantic love. He believed he was in love with Rosaline a, girl who had left to become a nun. Romeo believed he was heartbroken and his friends wanted to get him to be happy again although going to the party Romeo is still hesitant. “I fear, too early; for my mind misgives… Yet hanging in the stars… with this night’s revels and expire the term of a despised life” (1.4.110). Romeo believed that something would go wrong if they went to the party it would be the start of something that would end his life. When Romeo saw Juliet he forgot about Rosaline and her leaving all he saw was Juliet. “Did my heart love till now?... For I ne’er saw true beauty until tonight.” (1.5.50-51) It seems as though Romeo did not love Rosaline as he forgot about her as soon as he saw a beautiful girl. As that is so Romeo did not love Rosaline it was more of an infatuation with her. So before Romeo knew Juliet he had not known romantic love, only love from his friends and his parents. …show more content…
He has two parents that love him and want to know what is happening in his life. “ Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, We would as willingly give cure as known” (1.1.146-147). The Montagues wanted to know why their son was grief-stricken, and they wanted to know how they could help him. After the parents of Romeo found that he was exiled the “Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath.” (5.3.211). The love Lady Montague had for her son was so strong that when she found he was banished she could not live with that and she passed away. Romeo had felt love from his parents since he was born and although that is important in character building, that is not the same a romantic love. Romeo also felt love from his friends, but again that is not the same thing as romantic
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
Prior to even meeting Juliet, Romeo is shown to have an immature view on love. The first time Romeo is seen, he is dejected because Rosaline refused his affections, “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun never saw her match, since first the world began.” (Romeo, act one scene one) here, Romeo is putting Rosaline on a pedestal, he has become emotionally invested early, and set himself up for the disappointment he feels. Later in act one and two, Romeo again puts someone on a pedestal, when he sees Juliet, he immediately becomes infatuated, this infatuation led him to becoming emotionally invested once more, a show of his immaturity.
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.
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
Before Romeo meets Juliet, he claims his only love is for Rosaline and he still has strong feelings for her:
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
First of all, Romeo thought he fell in love with a girl named Rosaline .Then he started crying because she didn’t like him, and his friends wanted to cheer him up so they suggested to go to the Capulet party. It states that Benvolio says,” At this ancient feast of Capulet’s sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves; with all the admired beauties of Verona. Go thither, and with unattainted eye compare her with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow”(i 84-89). He met Juliet and that was when he forgot about Rosaline and thought he was in love with Juliet now. He flirted with her and gave her a palmers kiss, then a real one making her think she was in love too. Romeo says,”Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take. Thus from my lips, be thine my sin is purged.” [ kisses her.](i 105-106). Juliet then says,” My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy.”(i 137-140).Then, when Romeo leaves Juliet , Lord Capulet’s nephew, Tybalt recognizes Romeo’s voice
But still, people know one another. So how can Romeo even say he knows Juliet? He doesn’t, he is simply so infatuated with her beauty and filled with lust that he couldn’t help but do what he could to have her forever! He even threw away his love for Rosaline, saying that it was “child’st me oft for loving Rosaline” (Shakespeare 2.3.82). The act of throwing away your long love for one just for another is extremely impulsive, but if Romeo hadn’t acted this way, the story wouldn’t have panned out to its tragic ending.
Romeo announces that he loves Juliet, but based on his quotes, he was only infatuated and not in love. Benvolio tries to help Romeo get over his “love” for Rosaline before the Capulets’ party, but Romeo proudly declares, “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.” (A1, S3, L99-100) Romeo, at the party, is immediately infatuated to Juliet at first sight and forgets Rosaline, so if Romeo was never in love with Rosaline, the woman who Romeo cries for, then he was never in love with Juliet. Before Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage, Romeo is impatient and says, “Do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare - It is enough I may but call her mine.”
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.
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.
The whole relationship they share is rushed. Romeo apparently fell in love with Juliet upon seeing her and proclaimed that he wanted to spend eternity with her. The moment before he saw her, he proclaimed his love for Rosaline who had just recently broke his heart. He said that if he sees anyone more beautiful, that his eyes are lying and to let his “tears become fires/ And eyes burned.” (Act 1 Scene 2 88-91).
Romeo’s actions from the beginning of the play conveys to the readers that he is a romantic. He first expresses this when he talks about Rosaline. The fact that he claims that he is in love, even though they’ve never had conversation with her shows that he’s a bit up obsessed. Then when he lays eyes on Juliet his heart is immediately healed of Rosaline, and he is suddenly in love with Juliet. The only difference between Romeo and Rosaline, and Romeo and Juliet is that Juliet appears to love Romeo back. Since Juliet is the first one, that we know of, to love him back he immediately thinks she is the one for him. Romeo acting like this is Shakespeare way of showing the audience that Romeo is still a male teenagers that acts out by more of what he see then what he feel.
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.
From the moment we first hear about Romeo, it is in the context of his suffering at the hands of love. Romeo’s father, Montague, perplexed by his son’s behavior states that, “Many a morning hath he there been seen, / With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew, / Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs” (1.1.124-26). While this may be the first time we encounter Romeo’s melancholy humour, it certainly isn’t the last. In fact, one of the primary sources of our infatuation with Romeo rests in our sympathy for him. From the very start this poor boy is plagued by affections for girls that fate, it seems, will not let him be with. At first, it’s Rosaline, a girl who has “sworn that she will still live chaste” (1.1.210), a vow that sets Romeo reeling and complaining because “from love’s weak childish bow she lives unharmed” (1.1.204). His depression over Rosaline is enough to draw the attention of his father, Montague, who has observed that Romeo shuts himself up in his room all day in order to wallow in the darkness. These are the actions of someone who is undeniably quite