Dramatic Changes In Romeo And Juliet

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is commonly known as one of literature’s finest romances, but it is actually one literature’s most ironic romances. While it is a well-written piece of literature, it is a very unrealistic and sudden story of how two star-crossed lovers meet and end. Since Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is formed during a few days, the two are not truly in love. The couple was not truly in love, but rather they were carried away with their emotions, tried to escape their problems, and do not understand their feelings. Romeo and Juliet both have dramatic changes in their emotions, but Romeo is a more serious case. Romeo shows this when his feelings for Rosaline immediately change to feelings for Juliet at first sight. In the beginning of the story, Romeo has clearly fallen for Rosaline when he describes: “For beauty, starved with her severity/ Cuts beauty off from all …show more content…
Since they are both young, they do not know what they are feeling. Juliet is the younger one and she has never been in a relationship before. Capulet informs Paris that “My child is yet a stranger in the world/ She hath not seen the change of fourteen years”(Shakespeare 383 Act 1, Scene 2). Juliet does not know what love is since she has never been in a relationship and has always been dependent on her parents. Romeo is the character that misunderstands his feelings the most. He is like dramatic cupid that accidentally shoots himself to fall in love. So when Romeo tells the Friar of his newfound love, the Friar responds, “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes”(Shakespeare 410 Act 2, Scene 3). Friar Lawrence believes that Romeo does not love Juliet with his heart, but with his eyes when he should be loving with his heart and not his eyes. Neither Romeo nor Juliet know what love is since they do not have an understanding of their