Rosaline

However, after meeting Juliet he was not upset at all about Rosaline. When asked by his pastor if he had been with Rosaline all night, Romeo stated “With Rosaline, father? No, I have forgotten that girl and all the sadness she brought me”(Shakespeare). Friar Lawrence responded with “Have you given up so quickly on Rosaline, whom you loved so much? Then young men love with their eyes, not with their hearts. Jesus and Mary, how many tears did you cry for Rosaline?”(Shakespeare). Not only was Romeo impulsive because he fell in love and married Juliet just days after being in love with another girl, he became a murderer in the process. Another reason Romeo was impulsive is because he murdered two people. He killed Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, and Paris, Kinsman of the Prince and suitor of Juliet. He murdered Tybalt after a feud between him and Mercutio, where Tybalt killed Mercutio. Romeo, speaking of Tybalt, says “He’s alive and victorious, and Mercutio’s dead? Enough with mercy and consideration. It’s…

When Romeo is lovesick and unhappy over Rosaline, Benvolio tries to ease his pain, advising him, “One desperate grief cures with another’s languish. Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.” He poetically describes love as an infectious disease, and he reasons to get rid of it, it simply has to be replaced. His reasoning demonstrates the transitory nature of love and how it can easily be replaced, emphasizing how being able to adapt and “move on” is…

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…

In Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” the two main characters are not really in love because they are immature, they are quiet about their love, and they are strangers. Romeo and Juliet are not really in love because they are immature. In the text we see that Romeo is immature in relationships. On the way to the masquerade Benvolio says “..., but no sooner in betake him to his legs.” (1.4.32) then Romeo says back to him “A torch for me. Let wantons, light of heart, tickle the senseless rushes…

referring to Romeo killing Tybalt and saying that he is fortune’s fool. In conclusion, fate is destroying Romeo and Juliet’s life because a family feud that shouldn’t even affect the younger generation of both families. Romeo is depressed after finding out that Rosaline doesn’t love him back. He is very sad and doesn’t know what to do. Benvolio helps him get over the Rosaline situation by giving him advice. “Be ruled by me, forget to think of her” (1.1.227). Then Romeo responds by saying, “Oh,…

only his feeling of love to Rosaline but also he describes her beauty as incomparable to anyone. While talking to his friend, Benvolio, he said ‘’One fairer than my love? / The all-seeing sun / Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.’’ (Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet 1. 2. 94-95). However, after a period of short time, when he sees Juliet at the party, he changes his mind immediately. If he really is in love with Rosaline, he cannot be so quick to express his feelings of romance towards…

Romeo’s unpredictable emotions and ability to completely change his personality within seconds is demonstrated when he transfers his affections from Rosaline to Juliet: “Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight, for I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (1.5.59-60). Merely a minute or two ago, Romeo was moaning over his eternal love for Rosaline, and lamenting that she didn’t love him back. His love turns him into a different person; his personality fluctuates based on how he’s feeling…

star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly and die tragically in despair. Since Romeo and Juliet are still in their teenage years, their brains are not fully matured and developed which can explain why they both make impetuous decisions. During the second scene of Act II, Romeo and Juliet impulsively decided to get married, less than twenty four hours after meeting each other. In scene II, Romeo asks Friar Lawrence, “but this I pray, That thou consent to marry us today” (Shakespeare 410). What…

between his family and that of his lover, Juliet. For instance, he crosses into Juliet’s garden just to see her (2.1.40) knowing very well that he can face dire consequences if caught. He seems not to rely on the voice of reason, but rather his feeling at that moment. Again, he lacks the element of maturity and strong stand where he is able to stash his feelings for Rosaline in just one night that he meets Juliet “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty…

a tragic death occurs to them which reconcile the two families. Shakespeare got inspiration from a poem called “The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Luliet,” by Arthur Brooke. As per the Aristotelian principles as studied in the book “Poetics,” the Shakespearean tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” has six elements of a tragedy, dramatic unity and reversal along with recognition. The tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” employs all the six elements of a tragedy as in plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle,…