Romeo And Juliet Alternate Ending Essay

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

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

Juliet’s tragic pursuit to continue her passion-filled young love challenges the rigid, prevailing values of Verona’s adult world. While the tragic ending does not offer the defiance of

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.

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.

Firstly, Rosaline is the one who broke Romeo's heart in the first place. If it was not for Rosaline breaking his heart, Romeo would still be happy with her, and they would probably be getting married already. Rosaline told Romeo that she wanted to give her life over to God, which meant she could not have sexual contact.

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.

* The sadness Romeo feels for the fact that Rosaline will never be with Romeo.

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’s showed severe signs of depression at the beginning of the play due to severe rejection. Before the first scene in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, writer William Shakespeare used dialogue to explain Romeo’s past. When Benvolio asked why Romeo’s hours were sad, Romeo explained that “Not having that, which, having, makes them short” (1. 1. 169). Benvolio asked, “In love?” (1. 1. 170).

If you’re trying to find success at love at first sight, you might have a greater chance playing Russian roulette with an extra bullet locked, loaded and ready to go. Love is a hardcore drug and even though it satisfies that empty feeling, it comes along with a great deal of active side effects; some more extreme than others. The Shakespeare written play, Romeo and Juliet, is about two “love” blinded teens from the feuding Montague and Capulet family, fighting for their star-crossed love. Shakespeare uses many sets of character foils to show the numerous amounts of different people that are total opposites, but they still interact on a daily basis; He also uses it to emphasize the feuding of the two family names. A foil is a character that contrasts another

1) Why has Romeo been so depressed? Romeo has been so depressed because the “love of his life” Rosaline does not want to be with him anymore. She does not return the love he has given her, so he has fallen out of love. Rosaline does not feel the same way for Romeo anymore because she has fended off Cupid’s arrows to become a nun and is vowed to chastity. Even though he still has feelings for her, Romeo is not acting himself anymore; he is not just depressed, but he is also confused, hurt and upset.

Throughout the romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet an atmosphere of suspense is an active mood built by Shakespeare. This suspense stems from the conflicting relationship between two families-the Montagues and the Capulets. An example of this can be seen through a particular scene where main character and Montague, young Romeo, is invited to a Capulet feast. Heartbroken and rejected by Rosaline, a Capulet girl, Romeo gets motivated to attend by the very reason he’s in such a blue state (Rosaline). This subplot makes a clear connection to the story’s major plot through its leading to a key event, the meeting of the two “star crossed lovers” Romeo and Juliet.

The window blinds were open, allowing the warm morning sunlight to peek through and shine upon the two figures that were soundly asleep on the soft bed.

Similarly, Romeo’s hopelessness occurs when Rosaline, his first love, doesn’t have the same endearment as he has for her. Therefore, Rosaline’s repudiation invests despondency within Romeo’s ego. “... Should in the farthest East begin to draw / The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, / Away from light steals home my heavy son / And private in his chamber pens himself, / Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, / And makes himself an artificial night.” (I.ii.