Unrequited Love - Romeo and Juliet

Although Romeo deeply loves Rosaline, he’s in the process of being taught what true love is even though he doesn’t know

In the early stages of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare conveys love in many different ways. Love is shown as being imperfect, such as bawdy love, unrequited love and fatherly and maternal love, this contrasts greatly to Romeo and Juliet’s pure, perfect and requited love, and makes it seem all the more true before it is shown to be deadly.

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.

At first, quick-witted Juliet manages to fool her parents with subtle punning. She deceives them into thinking that she is complying with their wishes when, in actual fact, Juliet is defying them in an unobvious manner. Such an example is when Lady Capulet enters Juliet’s chamber, questioning the reason for her sorrow and tears. Juliet answers, “Indeed I shall be satisfied/ With Romeo till I behold him – dead -/ Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed.” (III.v.97-99) This disobedience and disloyalty towards her parents escalates when her father gives her instructions to wed Paris. At this point, Juliet cannot stand her outrage and displays outright disobedience, instantly retorting “He shall not make me there a joyful bride!” (III.v.21) She then seeks help from Friar Lawrence, begging him to help her avoid marrying Paris. “And I will do it without fear or doubt,/ To live an unstained wife to my sweet love.” (IV.i.89-90) As the story plays out, Juliet learns to be bolder and more defiant towards her parents, showing that she is a strong individual with her own views and mindsets. She even resorts to the most desperate of measures in order to go against her parents’

“If it weren’t for you, these children would still be alive! You knew those two were in love and you kept your mouth shut!” Lady Capulet throws her hands in the air, exasperated. Nurse raises her eyebrows and looks directly in Lady Capulet’s eyes. “Me? If it weren’t for your stupid little feud, your sweet Juliet would be running around, skipping happily right now.” Lady Capulet shoots a sharp glare at Nurse. She sits down and hangs her head realising that the Nurse is right. They sit in complete silence, completely heartbroken.

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 not unlike the typical young women constantly struggling to find happiness and acceptance from those who are closest to her. Young Juliet must confront the harsh reality that exists between her and those who profess to be her friends and family, which is they failed to support her, love her, and lift her up with she needed it most. In the timeless book, “Romeo & Juliet” William Shakespeare writes a moving story about the betrayal, disappointment, love, and eventual death of Romeo and Juliet. No reader can truly appreciate and understand the level of Juliet’s struggles without first understanding the roles the Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence and Romeo, their betrayal and their role in her faithful decision.

Unrequited love, according to Urban Dictionary, is when someone spends their time fawning over someone that does not feel the same or know about the other person's existence. In other words, it is a sad place to be and not recommended due to the fact that heartbreak only comes from yourself and is inevitable. In the play, Paris wanted to wed Juliet because he felt that there was a connection that could grow if given time. However, Juliet did not feel the same. In Act 3, Scene 5 when Juliet was told she was to marry Paris she said ‘’Now by Saint Peter’s Church, and Peter too, rather than Paris. These are news indeed! He shall not make me there a joyful bride! I wonder at this haste, that I must wed eve he that should be husband comes to woo. I pray you tell my lord and father, madam, I will not marry yet: and when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,’’ is a line that supports the fact that Juliet does not feel even a bit

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

Lady Capulet says to Juliet to do as she pleases because she is done worrying about you. It is ironic because she never really worried about Juliet; she was more worried about her status and wealth of herself and her husband.

The love that Romeo and Juliet had was very intense they weren’t supposed to be together because of family feud. The capulets and montagues are two different families that have different things that aren 't common on each other. Due to this Romeo and Juliet are conscious that what they have can 't happen but true love can cause people to take many risk. For example Romeo and Juliet can’t be together but they can decide to be together without there parents knowing that they feel in love and that they are planning to get married without their parents permission because their love is more important than what their families think about the difference and

At the beginning Nurse calls Juliet a 'lamb' Act 1, scene 3. Lambs are normally portrayed as pure and naive. She is quiet and obedient, does as she is told. To begin, she had much respect for her parents. All decisions were made for Juliet up to the point she met Romeo. Her lack of knowledge of the world made her easily led on. As her mother discusses Paris wanting to marry her, she replies: "It is an honour I dream not of" (Act 1, scene 3, line 67). The first time she disobeys her parents is at the party, where she met and kissed Romeo. Juliet is not sin free; going against her parent's wishes and behind their backs to marry Romeo, a Montague. She goes to Friar Lawrence to ask for absolution. Christians believe that confessing your sins to a priest and having him 'cleanse' you, wipes you clean of all sin up to that point. Even so, Juliet's purity has been tainted. Juliet, upon hearing of Romeo and Tybalt's bought, was torn between worrying about her own blood or her true love. Tybalt being the cousin of Juliet, made her heart break when she learnt of his death. When she found out that Romeo had lived, the relief she felt made her realise that she truly cared about him. She felt that her duty was as a wife to Romeo first and as a daughter, cousin, blood second. That night Juliet takes another step to abolish her virtue by taking Romeo to her bed and finishing the marriage rites. It was when she fakes her own death in order to avoid marrying Paris, that Juliet

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

What is love? Is it an object? Is it a feeling? Is it even attainable? Love is everything, it is an object, it is an emotion, and it cannot be bought, stolen, given. Love can only be found. Love is discovered in the most unthinkable places during the most unimaginable times. It can never be predicted who you fall in love with or when you do but all you do know is that you are in love and you would give anything for that person, and for your love to always stay resilient through all other obstacles and distractions. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Montague’s and Capulet’s are know and expected to hate each other until the miracle of love presented its self. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. They both fell in love when

Juliet is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. When the play begins, we learn from the nurse that Juliet is soon turning fourteen (“Even or odd, of all the days in the year come Lammas-Eve at night shall she be fourteen”). In Juliet's first meeting with her mother and the nurse, she seems to be an obedient and responsible child. She comes immediately when they call her and answers always respectfully to her mother: "Madam, I am here, / What is your will?" (“Act 1, Scene 3). She is also clever as when her mother asks her what she thinks about marriage, she gives an ambiguous answer by saying what her mother wanted to hear really: “it is an honour I dream not of” (“Act 1, Scene 3). We learn that she is