Romeo And Juliet Character Analysis

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.

At one part in the play his friends think he is still in love with Rosaline when in fact he has forgotten about Rosaline and is in love with Juliet. Romeo is quick to arrange the wedding and doesn’t wait to visit Friar Lawrence. The fact that Romeo and Juliet didn’t stop to think about marriage is one of the factors that contribute to their deaths. The Friar also thinks Romeo is in love with Rosaline and expects that he has spent the night with her, because he is in a good mood “God pardon sin! Wast thou with Rosaline”, but instead he has spent the night with Juliet. Romeo has a close relationship with the Friar, he acts as a father figure. This is shown when the Friar tell him he is banished. Romeo threatens to kill himself but Friar Lawrence stops him and gives Romeo some advice as Romeo knows he can trust the Friar “ Let me dispute with thee of thy estate”.

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.

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

For I ne’er saw true beauty till the night” (I.V.52-53). Despite the fact that Romeo professed his undying love for Rosaline for half of Act 1, his “love” moved without difficulty or remorse from Rosaline to Juliet after laying eyes on the Capulet, whom he had never spoken to or met before. This phrase reveals Romeo’s rash decision making skills that later effected everyone else in the play. Romeo made another rash decision by deciding to marry Juliet just one day after they have met. Their hastiness to marry is further portrayed in the scene in which Romeo asks Friar Laurence to marry the couple

In the beginning of the play, Romeo is enamored by a girl named Rosaline. With the hope of seeing her, he sneaks into a party hosted by the Capulets. Instead, he meets Juliet and instantly falls in love with her, forgetting all about Rosaline. He tells Friar Laurence about this new interest. Friar Laurence is surprised by this sudden turn of events: “Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?

This love is shown by four people, first by Romeo and his father, Friar Lawrence. Romeo’s father is worried about him, his heart has recently been broken by a girl he had a crush on, Rosaline. In scene one of act one, page 25, Romeo quotes; “She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, To merit bliss by making me despair.” In this quote he is saying that Rosaline is beyond beautiful to him, and what makes her happy, gives him great sadness.

“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.

Romeo was infatuated with Rosaline, who paid no attention to him whatsoever, which in turn made Romeo depressed and desperate for mutual feelings. His friend, Benvolio, tells Romeo to go to the party to get over his love-sick feelings for Rosaline, and at said party he sees Juliet, a “Saint/Angel” — words he would have used for Rosaline. Romeo immediately becomes obsessed with Juliet despite declaring his love to

It is merely filled with excitement over pretty faces and strong emotions. Love can seem harmless and lacking in violence, but Shakespeare proves this false through the ruthless consequences that his characters are put through. In the beginning, Romeo is completely infatuated over an almost complete stranger, Rosaline. He has “lost himself” and is “some other where” (I.i.191-192) because he is so in love with her. This quickly changes once he views Juliet at a party. It is almost comical how he instantaneously he disregards Rosaline for Juliet. He exclaims that he “never saw true beauty till that that” (I.v.50-51). Romeo’s quick change of extremes truly shows how immature and impulsive he is. Romeo probably likes feeling infatuated more than feelings actual love for another person. After the party, Romeo so completely swept away, returns to Juliet’s balcony and they swear that they will marry one another. Juliet, at first, is reluctant to his proposal, she is young and has never been in love before. This inexperience with love, and Romeo’s passionate emotions towards her probably are what make her claim such love for him. In secret, they marry not even 24 hours after they meet. Once Romeo discovers his banishment, they are both thrown into a nervous frenzy and a poorly constructed plan is put into place. Juliet, desperate for freedom in whom she chooses to marry, fakes her death. Romeo

Shakespeare makes Romeo describes Juliet in a variety of ways. He forgets all about Rosaline when he asks himself “ did my heart love till now?” He refers Juliet beauty to,” a snow dove in a troop of crows.” He states that since Rosaline didn't love him back “I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.” Shakespeare stretches the way Romeo describes Juliet because he does indeed believe in love, and he uses this to make the play seem more dramatic to lead up to their deaths.

It is introduced to the audience at the beginning of the play that Romeo is in love with Rosaline, claiming that she is the love of his life. However, Romeo’s love for Rosaline has shifted from his mind at the first sight of Juliet. In Act 1 Scene 5, Romeo asks, “what lady’s that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight?” This line can be translated into, “who is that lovely lady in the hands of that lucky man?” The line shows the moody and immature side of Romeo as he is more interested in a woman’s beauty than the conflict between the warring families. This unhealthy trait of Romeo leads to his heartrending ending, and consequently, contributing to his downfall as a tragic hero of the play. In addition to this, many audiences may think that Romeo is impulsive due to his frequent change of love. In the final scene, Romeo says, “thus with a kiss I die”. This simply means Romeo is ending his life with a kiss. The line has presented the haste of acting too fast as Romeo allowed love and despair to dominate him and committed suicide after believing his love, Juliet, has died. Overall, it is clear that Romeo’s character flaws add immensely to the play and is the result of his ultimate

In Shakespeare tragic play “Romeo and Juliet”, they claim to fall in love but it wasn't really true love because Romeo was infatuated with Juliet's cousin, Romeo kills Juliet's other cousin, Tybalt, and Romeo was a complete stranger to Juliet. One reason that Romeo and Juliet are not truly in love is because Romeo shows a yearning towards Juliet's cousin, Rosaline. Romeo shows his affection toward Rosaline when he says, “She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste, for beauty starved with her severity cuts beauty off from all posterity. She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, to merit bliss by making me despair. She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow do I live dead that lived to tell it now.

He was lovesick and discouraged that Rosaline didn't give back the affection he felt for her, and that she chose to turn into a religious woman. Thoughtfully, I directed him and prompted him, as his companions Mercutio and Benvolio did, to discover another lady in Verona. Romeo was still lovesick, yet after a short time, Romeo was back once more; this time accepting uplifting news. Romeo had discovered another affection, and this time, the sentiment adoration was shared. I recall Romeo saying such words as, "Then clearly know my heart's beloved adoration is determined to the reasonable little girl of rich Capulet: As mine on hers, so hers is determined to mine; And all consolidated, save what thou must