How Does Rosaline Affect His Credibility?

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:

In fact, It was not Juliet who is the first puppy love of Romeo. In fact, Romeo is having an obsession on a lady named Rosaline who vowed to remain chaste for the rest of her life. One day, Romeo wants to see Rosaline badly as he want to do what it takes to see her. As stated here, Romeo had an obsession with a girl which is similar to my fellow man in the present. He is falls in love easily to any woman who attains his attraction.

Romeo's infatuation with different women throughout the book show his feelings are hormonal driven and he is not truly in love with Juliet for who she is. Romeo first shows his feelings are hormonal when first taking an interest in Juliet after just getting over Rosaline when, at the Capulet's party, Romeo exclaims to a servingman that she[Juliet] doth teach the torches to burn bright” (1.5.42) and that she is “Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear” (1.5.44). If Romeo was truly in love with Rosaline he would not have got over her so fast, instead he would have been sad about her and not going to check out other girls. Romeo's actions of becoming infatuated with women instead of building a strong relationship shows just

Juliet is to be married as “The valiant Paris seeks [her] for his love”(686) and Romeo feels depressed. Juliet doesn’t truly want to be married to Paris and when Romeo comes along and says he loves her, Juliet uses this as an excuse to be ineligible to Paris. At their young ages of 13 and 16 both, don’t truly know love and can’t effectively associate their feelings. The friar feels that"[Romeo’s] love did read by rote, that could not spell'"(707). Romeo is only repeating what he has heard about love, not genuinely understanding what he is saying. He acts impatient and brash, quickly jumping at any chance to say he is in love thinking it will bring him happiness. Moments before he saw Juliet, Romeo claimed that he was deeply in love with Rosaline, although when presented with someone who he deemed as more beautiful he’s questions if, "[his] heart [did] love till now?...For [he feels he has] ne'er saw true beauty till this night" (pg 692). If he had truly been in love with Rosaline then seeing another girl wouldn't have changed his mind, but as he is so young he isn't able to understand that what he felt for both, Juliet and Rosaline was lust. Teenagers act irrationally, based solely on emotion, Romeo and Juliet are too caught up in their feelings to take a step back and consider their

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

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 and Juliet were always considered star-crossed lovers, they had found each other by fate. They had fallen in love by only having seen each other once, Romeo then had seen everything with Juliet, Romeo had wanted to get married to Juliet as soon as possible. Romeo and Juliet do really love each other because he killed himself for her and she did the same. Romeo doesn't know what love is, and never will. Juliet was just a rebound from Rosaline, since he had gone to the party to see Rosaline, ended up seeing Juliet and had felt lust not love for her, since he didn't know who she was or what she was like.

We see Romeo’s affection for the beautiful Rosaline, but we also his deep feelings for the more extravagant, Juliet. Romeo cannot see Juliet by the whole enemy concept; they cannot meet their true lovers. However, love gives them real power.

This makes it impossible for them to be together, especially since Romeo kills juliet's cousin, Tybalt, and gets banished from verona. In the end they both end up killing themselves over their love for each other. Some people argue that Romeo's love for Rosaline is childish as compared with his true love for Juliet. Others argue that Romeo used Juliet to get Rosaline out of his mind. I believed that Romeo's love for Juliet is so deep that he battled to be together, went to war with his and her family, and lastly they found the meaning of true love.

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 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 was in love with Rosaline a couple days before which he barely knew. And now he fell in love with Juliet in 1 day which he was with for only about a hour and a hour isn’t enough time to know someone a lot and to even love them. In Romeo and Juliet it also says “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear, Beauty too rich for use , for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows The measure done, I’ll watch her of stand, And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. Did my heart love till now?forswear it, sight.” This is part when Romeo crashes the Capulet party and see Juliet for the first time. Romeo in this piece of verse , Romeo was saying that he never saw anything more beautiful and he ask himself if he just fell in love which he was but he only fell in love for seeing her beauty not her personality. The two lovers would have to know each other more other than beauty and might now love each other and be happy because they would've found out who they actually were and how they act as individuals.

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.