How Does Shakespeare Present Love In Romeo And Juliet

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

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

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.

Throughout William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, the characters represent opposing views on love. Shakespeare did this in order to allow each person in the play to have someone they could relate to and show that not everybody feels love the same way.

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.

In the play `Romeo and Juliet` the writer William Shakespeare uses the theme of love as a main feature to push the story along. Presented are a plethora of variations of love including family love, true love and courtly love. This essay aims to analyse these three types of love chosen.

In 'Romeo and Juliet', Shakespeare portrays different aspects and types of love in many ways. The obvious love is the fateful love between Romeo and Juliet although the play also displays platonic love, maternal love and aspects of adolescent love.

Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline! How much salt water thrown away in waste to season love, that of it doth not taste! The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears, thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears. Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit of an old tear that is not washed off yet” (2.3.69-80). When Romeo opens up to Friar Laurence about his newly found love, Juliet, Friar Laurence’s reminder to him that just the other day he was in love with Rosaline foretells of misfortune to come. At one point during the two lovers relationship Romeo was going to commit suicide because he thought Juliet hated him for killing her cousin Tybalt. Juliet's nurse and Friar Laurence prevent Romeo from commiting suicide by stating “Hold thy desperate hand! Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art. Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote the unreasonable fury of a beast. Unseemly woman in a seeming man, or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! Thou hast amazed me. By my holy order, I thought thy disposition better tempered. Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself, and slay thy lady that in thy life lives, By doing damnèd hate upon thyself? (3.3.118-28). This

Romeo answered, “Out of her favor, where I am in love” (1. 1. 173). The dialogue indicates Romeo loved Rosaline, but she did not reciprocate those feelings. He tells Benvolio, “In sadness… [he did] love a woman” (1. 1. 212.). Benvolio tried to lift his spirits by explaining how love is “tyrannous” (1. 1. 175) but nothing seemed to work. Despite Benvolio’s words of encouragement and empowerment, Romeo slipped into a deep sadness.

Rosaline is aware of Romeos ‘feelings’ towards her and spurns his advances, yet Romeo takes this rejection as encouragement and continues to attempt to woo her. These are strong features of courtly love. Paris treats his ‘love’ in a different manner, but the same features are there. He goes to meet Lord Capulet and arranges to marry Juliet, although he has never met her.

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.

Meaning Rosaline doesn’t feel the same for Romeo. Another example in the story is the marriage arrangement of Paris and Juliet. Juliet's parents think she is sad over Tybalt's death and they believe if Paris asks for her hand it will make her feel better. But she responds to her parents with “ I will not marry yet and when I do, I swear it will be Romeo, whom you know I hate, Rather than Paris. These are news indeed! ”

“Excuse me, but I feel that I need to escort you back to your home now, Rosaline.” Romeo was astonished, hurt, and upset. How could he ever love another woman? He wouldn’t. Romeo decided that he would never find love again. If Rosaline wouldn’t be the one to marry him, then he would never marry anyone. Deciding not to love seemed like a simple decision in that moment, but what he did not realize was that eventually he would learn to love someone else.

and he says 'the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon'