William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo is a melodramatic 16-year old that lets his downheartedness over Rosaline take over when he sees Juliet. Romeo is unhappy, as Rosaline decided to stay chaste, and then he meets Juliet and he sees that she is looks attractive and wants to make irresponsible decisions. Romeo gives a perfect example of his irresponsible, lustful identity when he says this, “Did my heart love till now? / Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night”(Shakespeare,

In this quote, Romeo says that if the love for he has for Rosaline, which is like a religion, is changed because he finds someone more beautiful than her, let his tears turn to fire and his eyes be burned. Moreover, this just shows how immature Romeo is in the first Act. Juliet is also immature in the first and second acts of the play.“I'll look to like, if looking liking move;/ But no more deep will I endart mine eye/ Than your consent gives strength to make it fly” (Romeo and Juliet 1.3:98-100). In this quote, Juliet that she will look to see if she will like Paris if that is her mothers wish.

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.

Romeo becomes convinced that Juliet is the most beautiful creature he has ever seen and ever will see. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” (I, 5, 57-58). Romeo says that his heart has never loved before that moment and that his eyes confirm that Juliet is truly a beauty to be sought. This quote shows how Romeo quickly forgets his lovesickness for Rosaline and falls deeply in love with Juliet. He says that he has never loved before showing that by fate directing Romeo to the party and Juliet to his heart, that fate brings Romeo and Juliet together.

The first kind of love shown in the play is teenage love through Romeo. Montague tells us that "Many a morning hath he (Romeo) been seen... adding to the clouds more clouds with his deep sighs." Romeo is often seen sighing showing that he is either depressed or in love. Romeo is both. He says he is "out of her favour where I am in love". He is "in love" with Rosaline but she has sworn herself to a life of chastity and does not return Romeo's love. Shakespeare mocks Romeo's infatuation with the

Through Scene 5, Romeo continues to show himself as a hopeless romantic besotted with beautiful girls. His language indicates that he thinks of love and commitment in terms of sight: “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night”, as he says at his first glimpse of Juliet. This statement recalls Scene 2, in which he spoke of “ the devout religion of mine eye” and said that if his eyes were heretical enough o consider another girl more beautiful than his Rosaline, his tears would turn to fire and burn at stake. However, as soon as he lays his eyes on Juliet, his devotion to the apparently less beautiful Rosaline disappears – and a new religion is found for Romeo.

Romeo says this when he saw Juliet across the room. This shows that he truly only loves by looks because even though he hasn’t met her yet, he says he is in love with her already. This action is a cause of the tragic ending because his romantic tendencies led him to kiss Juliet and the two start to “fall in love” with one another. The two star crossed lovers are both too young to know that true love doesn’t happen at first

Within the first few moments upon seeing Juliet, Romeo is mesmerized by her beauty: “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! / It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear-- / Beauty too rich for use, for Earth too dear!” (I. v. 43-46). Romeo proclaims his infatuation for Juliet immediately; however, he knows nothing about her. Romeo is mistaking his infatuation with undying love. He voices this mere hours after uttering similar thoughts about Rosaline, his former true love. In his switching his object of obsession so quickly, shows his love is not indeed love but just fascination. These words give insight into Romeo's volatility and his being controlled by his emotions, and foreshadows his death. Romeo is so utterly heartbroken, and obsessed that he commits suicide to be with her; “Here’s to my love! […]/ [The] drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die,” (V. iii. 129-131). Romeo’s fascination with being with his love was essential to his being; he would do anything to be with Juliet. His way of being with her, knowing she was dead, was to join her by taking his life. His blurred vision with the longing to be with Juliet ironically lead him to ultimately to his

The beginning of the play presents Romeo, a histrionic teenage boy who laments over the fact that the girl who his infatuation centers on – Rosaline - does not feel the same. When he speaks of her, instead of explaining why he loves her as an unique person, Romeo curses her beauty and his unrequited love: "Show me a mistress that is passing fair, / What doth her beauty serve, but as a note / Where I may read who passed that passing fair?" (1.1.241-244). His description of his love for the girl evinces vague details as he continues to pine over her physical attractiveness. Romeo proclaims that he will never love anyone

It shows how much Romeo cared about Rosaline and how Romeo thought he'd never get over the girl but ended up forgetting about her completely. The change was that he and Juliet were very much in love which is shown in the balcony scene(Source C) compared to Rosaline’s fake love. Romeo ended up taking Benvolio’s advice and did indeed examine another's beauty whom of which he falls for more then one could imagine, which then leads to the fact that he legit died for

Before the party which they meet at, Romeo is moping about how is one true love, Rosaline, will never love him back. He goes on and on about how beautiful and perfect she is. But when he gets to Lord Capulet’s party and sees Juliet, he says “For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Act I, Scene V, Line 60). Romeo’s heart make decisions based upon little to no information about the one he loves. His rash decisions come from a place with no regrets. He is too young to see that falling in love with someone he doesn’t know could have disastrous effects. Juliet’s young age also comes with little foresight of what could happen. While she is at the party her father is throwing, she was told to look out for Count Paris, as that is the man her parents want her to marry. Juliet herself agreed that she would meet Paris and if she

This description shows how Romeo thought Rosaline was so beautiful that it will be a loss to the world when she dies. This is significant because Romeo forgets about all of this the moment he sets his eyes on Juliet. Anyone who gives up someone they thought was their soul mate in a split second for another woman would have to be lost in love with that new woman. Romeo was moved by a force so strong that he was able to forget about his past feelings and make an attempt to tell Juliet he loved her. Although the two shared some kisses, Juliet still had not proven she truly loved Romeo.

This also shows that Romeo can’t tell the difference between love and infatuation in himself. He says that he loved Rosaline, when everyone else can see that it was only infatuation. So when he says that he’s in love with Juliet, it seems very similar to what he felt for Rosaline. Romeo uses the term love loosely throughout the play, especially in this passage. He says that he loved Rosaline, but it seems more like he loved the feeling of being in love, since he moved on from Rosaline a little too quickly.

Young love is often not well planned out. When is comes to Romeo, he would falls head over heels for an elegant woman without a blink of an eye. Without a moment’s hesitation, as long as the women has a pretty face, he’ll be drawn right too her. He falls in love much too quickly and is very easily attracted, exhibited in the play, “Who is that beautiful lady? Is this really true love? Yes! It has to be because i never saw anyone that beautiful until tonight,” (1.5.48-56). Just a glimpse of Juliet made him lovestruck and want to be. He doesn’t even know or has ever talked to her which shows the audience that Romeo is swooned purely by looks. Real love doesn’t work that way, and in Romeo’s case, he can just fall in love with a random women that he had no past relationships with. For him to fall for women so fast, it would mean he also forgets about the women he did love too, stated in the play, “Me, with Rosaline? No way, I don’t even know who that is anymore,” (2.3.48). Rosaline was Romeo’s love interest before he linked his eyes with Juliet and to see him toss away his love for her so quickly shows that Romeo’s love comes as quick as it goes. His attention for a woman doesn’t last very long as he easily forgets about his past love and only has sights for the next women in line. This immature impression of love from Romeo presents to the

Considered one of William Shakespeare’s most prominent plays, The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is often thought of as the classic and tragic love story, the tale of “star-crossed lovers.” Yet pigeon-holing such a play to a mere love story undermines the complexity which distinguishes Shakespeare’s work. The characters developed throughout the play are much more than simple participants in a tale of calamitous love. Often, because of her young age, Juliet is characterized as merely a youthful and naive girl, the object which receives Romeo’s affections. In another extreme, Juliet is the young and rebellious teenager who defies all social norms and the demands of her controlling parents to pursue her true love, only for her attempts at freedom to end in disaster.