In possibly Shakespeare’s most popular book, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is portrayed as a loving and honest person. Romeo would express his thoughts to Juliet and he would also show love to her. Romeo is played as a static character because over the course of the book, Romeo does not change at all. He always loved Juliet. One trait Shakespeare gave to Romeo was honesty. After Romeo and Juliet were together and she left, Romeo thought to himself. “Oh, blessed, blessed night! Because it’s dark out, I’m afraid all this is just a dream, too sweet to be real.”. This shows that Romeo truly loves Juliet. Romeo fears that meeting Juliet is a dream because if it never happened he would never find his true love. Another trait Shakespeare gave to Romeo
As seen, Romeo has, throughout the whole course of the play, demonstrated his impulsive and immature nature. Romeo, though he has matured only slightly with Juliet, still makes childish choices and decisions, and lets his emotions get the
Romeo and Juliet is a play about two star-crossed lovers who have passionate and unconditional love for one another. Due to a family feud, the two lovers cannot be together, resulting in a great tragedy. Throughout the play, William Shakespeare uses figurative language to bring more depth and meaning to his dialogues. Due to the descriptive writing, readers are able to better understand and connect with the characters and the story. In Romeo’s famous love speech for Juliet, 2.2, Shakespeare uses many literary devices to show the audience that Romeo’s love for Juliet is true and everlasting. By using a metaphor, Shakespeare compares Juliet’s beauty to the sun to show the light Juliet brings
Juliet is worried that their love is to sudden, were as Romeo thinks it's just seems idealistic and surreal. "I am a feared being in night; all this is but a dream" This also shows that Romeo is not fully conscious of their circumstances. Afterwards, when Romeo goes to seek advice from Friar Lawrence he does not converse in a clear-cut manner.
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
Romeo is passionate and emotional but also imprudent, which results in him taking actions that endanger his life and lives of those around him. In the play, Romeo is quickly characterized as dramatic and overly emotional. Throughout the course of
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.
As illustrated by the two plays Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare was a true romantic. In each play, his characters suffer great hardship, but in the end, he delivers them to a life of eternal love. Characters plot against each other in each play. The relationships of the people in his plays are not always what they seem. Whether it be a tragedy or a comedy, Shakespeare encompasses three elements into his plays: love, intrigue, and identity.
Though Juliet is probably one of the worst fictional characters to look up to, she does have important and respectable traits. In Shakespeare’s famous novel and play, Romeo and Juliet, many of the characters undergo major development. The novel starts off as a comedy, with Romeo and Juliet getting married, but ends as a tragedy, with both main characters dying. The tragedy of the story often makes the characters show their true selves and ultimately face constant development. Though Juliet is often interpreted as a weak and ingenuous character, many of her actions prove her to be mature, determined, and independent.
The love expressed and communicated between Romeo and Juliet Is passionate, brave, and endearing. According to the play itself, when Juliet is having a word with Romeo, she states “Dost thou love me?... If dost thou love, pronounce it faithfully,” (Pg 17). At this point, early in their forbidden love, they are unsure about whether or not this emotion is authentic. Is their love as undeniable as each of them seem to believe? Soon, on page 16, Romeo says “O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o’er my head,” (pg 16). Here, Romeo speaks out with his love for Juliet, as he is already head over heels in love with her. During, these scenes, Shakespeare does an impeccable job of illustrating how amid such a brief lifetime, Romeo and Juliet fell for each other like no other, so deeply that they would be willing to die for each other for this passion.
Throughout the works of William Shakespeare, the main character is complemented with another character that acts or serves as the protagonist's foil. In Romeo & Juliet, the protagonist, Romeo, is fickle, idealistic, impractical and naïve. To balance Romeo as a character, Shakespeare creates Mercutio; a good friend of Romeo's who acts as his conscience. While Romeo has an idealistic perspective of the world and more specifically of love, Mercutio balances Romeo's weak points as a dreamer. Mercutio is pragmatic, sensible, and clever and a master on word play. Throughout the play, Mercutio mocks Romeo's naïve and ridiculous fascination with love. Early in the play, Romeo goes on and on about his deep infatuation with the beautiful Rosaline.
Romeo’s big heart conflicted with being naive, but also showed how his personality was needed to move the plot along. “Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Romeo was a honorable and respected young man. He lived in Verona for the entirety of his short life and was the only son of the Montagues. Romeo was known for being and affectionate boy, who in most cases tried to avoid violence and stay away from young men seeking a fight. Romeo had many loves. The love of his family, the love of his friends, he even loved his enemies.
Romeo, throughout the story, demonstrates his impulsive and passionate character by his unplanned acts of love. Shakespeare shows Impulsivity and passion in Romeo through his inner thoughts and feelings. Shakespeare uses Romeo’s inner
Romeo is one of the main characters in the play. Romeo is romantic and has a passion to love and be loved. He uses words to express his love. Firstly, for example, in Act 1 Scene 5, “If I profane with my unworthiest hand, this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this; my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” (W. Shakespeare 837) Romeo longs to be with Juliet, and in a way, invites her to his love.