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immense obstacles, yet his biggest obstacle to surmount might end up being his own great flaws, as throughout the play Romeo is principally impulsive and sensitive. One example of how he is sensitive is how sad, depressed and melancholy he was over Rosaline, a girl he barely knew. When he found out that he could not be with her he was very unsettled and even depressed. Montague tells Benvolio: “With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew, Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs...Away from

difference between his desire for Rosaline and his passion for Juliet, for example?) Personally, I don’t think that Romeo’s love develops as the story progresses. Ever since the beginning of the story, Romeo has fallen in love with every woman he saw. This isn’t real love. He might have thought he was in love, but in reality, it wasn’t. Romeo strikes me as the type that likes to rush the relationships that he’s a part of. When Romeo’s relationship with Rosaline ended, he moved on to Juliet very

novel. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being pursed, a fire sparking in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with loving tears” (1.1.181). Romeo stated this because he is trying to forget how he was rejected by Rosaline. And when he was rejected by Rosaline, his interest started to point towards Juliet. This is how figurative language is used throughout the Romeo and Juliet novels.

twentieth-century: Franco Zeffirelli‟s 1968 Romeo and Juliet and Baz Luhrmann‟s 1996 William Shakespeare 's Romeo + Juliet. Love and sexuality in these movies will be investigated by first breaking down the natural issue postured by the vicinity of Rosaline, who calls into inquiry the authenticity of the thought of intimate romance as to Romeo‟s affections for Juliet. The following circumstance that confounds affection and sexuality is Juliet’s great youth; Shakespeare essentially and deliberately brings

Romeo's hectic life by the playwright. The men are Romeo's confidants, Benvolio is Romeo's cousin and the Friar is Romeo's "ghostly father" (2.2.45). They frequently give Romeo advice on how to conduct his love life. When Romeo was head over heals for Rosaline, they discouraged the ill-advised romance because they knew it would end in calamity because she was a Capulet. Benvolio urges Romeo to "Compare her face with some that I will show," (1.2.88) at the Capulet feast so Romeo will forget about her. Friar

around 1500’s. He suffers unrequited love with Rosaline until he meets Juliet, the daughter of his family’s enemy. He can be described as foolishly infatuated, liberally open-minded, capriciously fickle. We will elaborate on these. Firstly, Romeo can be described as foolishly infatuated when Romeo uttered “A word will urg’d to one that is so ill: In sadness, cousin, I do love a women.” In Act 1, Scene 1, Line 197-198. Simply, it meant that a word from Rosaline will impulse Romeo and admits to Benvolio

characters Romeo and Juliet, as the lines above bring out. Although these two teenager's love is the focus of the story, many other views of love are expressed and presented by various characters. Three of these many views include Romeo's love for Rosaline, the Friar Lawrence's view of love, and most significantly, Romeo and Juliet's love for one another. "Two households, both alike in dignity... From forth the fatal loins of these two star-crossed lovers take their life."(Prologue Act 1) These lines

Love Love is dark and bright, and it is also depressing and happy. A young boy named Romeo has a major change in his idea of love. Romeo starts out in love with a girl, Rosaline, but it is depressing for Romeo, because she does not return his love. But right when Romeo sets eyes on a young girl named Juliet, he forgets about Rosaline, and he is in love and filled with joy that Juliet loves him back. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the concept of love that Shakespeare shows

another different from the way they felt towards Rosaline and Paris. How did the people around them notice these changes? 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

In the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare presents two characters, Romeo and Juliet who meet through a love-at-first-sight experience during Capulet’s party. Even though Romeo attends the party only to see Rosaline, a girl for whom he has a passionate one-sided love, Romeo and Juliet run into each other and fall in love as if by fate. However, a feud between their two families,