Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story between two young lovers who come from families that are enemies. The play starts off with a depressed Romeo Montague in love with a woman named Rosaline, who does not love him back. He often moans about his love for her and how there is no one more beautiful than her. Romeo's cousin Benvolio and their friend Mercutio try to distract Romeo, so they bring him to a party at the Capulet's. At the Capulet's party, Romeo sees the beautiful Juliet Capulet. Forgetting about Rosaline, Romeo declares that Juliet is the most beautiful person he has seen and Juliet falls in love with him. Although Romeo thought he was in love with Rosaline's looks before, Romeo and Juliet's love for each …show more content…
When Romeo sees Juliet for the first time at the Capulet’s party he says: “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (1.5.59-60). Romeo was probably never in love with Rosaline to begin with if he had never loved until then. If Romeo instantly fell in love with Juliet the minute he saw her, it is possible that he only thought she was beautiful and nothing more because he had never met her before. Romeo goes to talk to Friar Lawrence about his new love for Juliet and Romeo explains to him why his love for Juliet is different than his love for Rosaline “Her I love now / doth grace for grace and love for love allow. / The other did not so” (2.3.92-93). Romeo tells Friar Lawrence that his love for Juliet is different because she loves him back, which Rosaline did not. This is significant because it shows how quick Romeo can be to judge, and that even though he does not know much about her, since she loves him back he thinks that she is the love of his …show more content…
At the Capulet's party Juliet sees Romeo and finds him attractive, she does not know who he is though so she asks the nurse "Go ask his name. If he be married, / my grave is like my wedding bed" (1.5.148-149). This shows how quick Juliet was to fall in love and that did not even talk to him yet. This quote also foreshadows that Juliet is destined to die if she is not able to be with him. This is all significant because it reveals that even though Juliet does not know anything about Romeo, not even his name, she is still in love with his attractiveness. When Juliet and Romeo are talking during the balcony scene, Juliet realizes that things are moving very fast "It is too rash, too unadvisedly, too sudden" (2.2.125). Juliet wants to take things slower so it seems that she is not easy to fall in love with, even though she fell in love with him without even talking to him. This reveals that throughout the whole play their love is very sudden and they think they are madly in love after one day. This is another example of adolescent love because things are moving too
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a story of two young lovers. These two hearts, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, belong to feuding families. The family feud causes them to keep their love a secret and therefore only Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, the Nurse and Friar Lawrence know of their love. Romeo and Juliet are able to look past the feud and let themselves fall in mad love with the other. They let themselves do almost anything for the other and at times it seems like too much to do, even for the one they love.
There is no doubt that Romeo rushes into love throughout the play. One example of this is when he falls in love with Rosaline. Although Rosaline is not a major role in the play, it shows the sorrow and uncertainty Romeo goes through after not being loved back. Marilyn Williamson said “During the time in which he was infatuated with Rosaline, he was. withdrawn into darkness” (6).
Romeo had unrequited love for Rosaline, who is mentioned, but doesn’t appear in the movie or the original script. But those feelings are dead the second he sees Juliet.
It’s often said that love at first sight is what occurred in this dismal story but you can not truly be in love until you have gotten to know the person and actually talked to them. When Romeo first saw Juliet he was already saying he was in love with her and didn’t even speak to her, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!” (I.V.52). When in actual, true love you must know the person. Juliet had just learned his name and she was already calling him her love, “My only love, sprung from my only hate!” (I.V.138). On top of that, they were just teenagers. Majority of all teenagers suffer from mood swings due to the hormones raging through their body. One day they’re angry the next they’re sad, so how could they have truly known what they have wanted? Yes, it is possible for teenagers to be in love, but it’s hard to tell whether it’s actual love. “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun” (I.II.96) In that line he was talking about a girl he met before he met Juliet, Romeo was claiming he was in love with her, Rosaline, and he was really down about that sitatuion. “Is Rosaline that thou didst love so dear, / So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” (II.III.66-68) Friar Lawrence even pointed it out; if he was able to get over Rosaline that quickly then he did not love her. If he could get over her that fast then he could find somebody else and get over Juliet
In the play. Romeo is just getting over Rosaline "rejecting" him (Act I, Scene 1, Line 155). This means that he could have just been very upset. Resulting in him just grabbing the first thing he could find which just happened to be Juliet. If he had never even met Rosaline. He probably would have never met Juliet either. Although in the movie version of this part, all that the viewer knows is that
Romeo and Juliet is a sixteenth-century play written by William Shakespeare. Amongst the most renowned of Shakespeare's plays, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that focuses on the fated relationship of two star-crossed lovers. The play focuses on themes of love and hate, mostly concerning the feud between the two opposing families, the Montagues and the Capulets. This play came at a time when such social events like courting were not just accepted, but expected. Witchcraft and fate were also strongly believed to be real which makes aspects of the play seem somewhat surreal to a modern day audience. III.1 is a pivotal part of the play, within this one scene, the possibility of the play being a comedy is destroyed and there is only one unfortunate direction in which the fortunes of the characters can spiral.
Our first impressions of Romeo are depressed and confused, which could mean he doesn’t love Rosaline but lusts her. When we are introduced to Romeo, he is upset because he can’t have sex with Rosaline and he lusts her. Romeo then meets Juliet at the Capulet party, where he turns up uninvited. When he sees her, he is struck by her beauty. They approach each other and begin to speak.
He relentlessly speaks about how beautiful she is when he questions, “did my heart love her till now? forswear it sight!/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Shakespeare 1.5.51-52). It is evident that Romeo cannot focus on anything else but Juliet’s looks, which is a sign of physical attraction rather than love at first sight. Romeo proclaims to “love” Juliet the minute he lays eyes on her.
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, where a boy and a girl fall in love with each other during a party hosted by Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet. The two teenager decide to get marry, despite their family's hate for each other and only meeting each other a few hours ago. However, the Montagues (Romeo’s Parents) and the Capulets end their feud after they discover that their children killed themselves. Romeo and Juliet’s death was caused by Juliet’s parents, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence.
Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of lovers who's misfortune and immaturity was a cause of their own destruction. The characters individually show immaturity and together demonstrate how ignorance of the world effects more than just their own lives. Romeo and Juliet, as expressed in the succeeding examples, fall in love quickly as a result of their naivety.
Capulet and Romeo Montague, face a bigger problem; forbidden love. Taking place in Verona, an ignorant Romeo first meets a childish Juliet at the Capulet’s party. Romeo and his kinsman, Benvolio, attend the party masked, searching for his first love, Rosaline. Coincidentally, Romeo meets Juliet, a new beauty, and falls in love with her not knowing the fact that she is a Capulet. The feud continues, leading one mistake after another, until both families realize their selfishness at the last minute. The unfortunate tragedy of two “star-crossed lovers” is ironically caused by the impetuosity of Romeo and Juliet themselves (Shakespeare 7).
Romeo has an obsessive personality. The morning before he meets Juliet, he is obsessing on Rosaline. To see Rosaline, Romeo snuck into a Capulet’s party; once there, he meets Juliet and instantly he forgets his obsession of Rosaline, thinking Juliet is the most beautiful creature on earth. Friar Lawrence even acknowledges this when he states, “Young men’s love then lies / Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes” (II iii 67-68). Romeo’s affection is easily swayed from Rosaline to Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love tales, but what if the play is not actually a tale of love, but of total obsession and infatuation. Romeo has an immature concept of love and is rather obsessive. Romeo is not the only person in the play who is obsessed though. Many people throughout the play notice his immaturities about love. Very rarely was true love actually shown in the play. attention. Romeo childishly cries to his friend, Benvolio because Rosaline will not love him back and says " She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow/ Do I live dead that live to tell it now" (I i 219-220). Romeo is stating that he's ready to die for loving Rosaline. This is exactly the same attitude Romeo had towards Juliet a little later in the play. During Scene I, Act ii, Romeo's friend, Benvolio tries to get him to go to the Capulet's party to help him get over Rosaline and meet other women Romeo gets very angry and emotional when he suggests this. “Now Romeo is beloved and loves again, / Alike bewitched by the charm of looks” (II 5-6). The chorus expresses Romeo’s juvenile way...
Romeo falls in love with Juliet during the Capulet masquerade ball, and one knows this because Romeo says “Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!” (Rom. 2.5.45) Romeo has fallen in love with Juliet's looks, which shows that he does not really care about personality and that his ID is just telling him to get over Rosaline.
Romeo and Juliet is a romantic love story about a young lad named Romeo who has fallen in love with Lady Juliet, but is unable to marry her because of a long-lasting family feud. The play ends in the death of both these characters and the reunion of the friendship between the families. Romeo is in love with Juliet, and this is a true, passionate love (unlike the love Paris has for her or the love Romeo had for Rosaline) that nothing can overcome, not even the hatred between their two families that is the reason for the death of their two children. Throughout the play, Shakespeare thoroughly explores the themes of both true love and false love and hatred. Without either of these themes, the play would loose its romantic touch and probably would not be as famous as it is today.