Romeo & Juliet literally analysis
Romeo and Juliet is argued as one of the western worlds most famous “love” stories. It tells the story of two doomed lovers and takes place over a period of three days. Despite being known as a story of love and tragedy, it is one of must and rushed decisions as shown through foreshadowing, metaphors and the cruel irony of this staged love, shown in act 1 scene 1.
Throughout the play Romeo is displayed of a character of love, if nothing he himself represents love and passion in its purest form, stumbling form one beauty to the next. In act 1 scene 1 of the play Romeo is desperately and painfully in love with Rosaline. Rosaline was Romeo’s love from the commencement of the play, she did not return the love that Romeo bestowed upon her as she had taken vow to chastity in return for education. Rosaline not returning this love gives Shakespeare the opportunity to use hyperbole of Romeos love as a literary device to define Romeo’s character as an overdramatized love obsessed teenage boy. Nothing suggests that Romeo loved Rosaline for anything other than her beauty.
In act one scene one, Benvolio asks Romeo of his saddened love, Romeo replying “Bid a sick man in sadness make his will?” (line 197). Romeo displays that he is, when without Rosaline, incapable of moving on with love and life for she is all he craves. His love for her sickens and saddens him to his core. However only a day later does he claims to fall recklessly in love with the beautiful Juliet Capulet and forget entirely about Rosaline. This suggests that Romeo would have been willing to die for Rosaline, like he had for Juliet, meaning that if another beauty had swept him off his feet he would have forgotten his newly found wife in a heartbeat. This brings up the question on whether or not Romeo had ever actually been in love, rather than the idea of being in love. Romeo is a lover who surrounds himself in the light of fictional love stories, desperately trying to recreate the feelings he would have
Throughout the play Romeo is displayed of a character of love, if nothing he himself represents love and passion in its purest form, stumbling form one beauty to the next. In act 1 scene 1 of the play Romeo is desperately and painfully in love with Rosaline. Rosaline was Romeo’s love from the commencement of the play, she did not return the love that Romeo bestowed upon her as she had taken vow to chastity in return for education. Rosaline not returning this love gives Shakespeare the opportunity to use hyperbole of Romeos love as a literary device to define Romeo’s character as an overdramatized love obsessed teenage boy. Nothing suggests that Romeo loved Rosaline for anything other than her beauty.
In act one scene one, Benvolio asks Romeo of his saddened love, Romeo replying “Bid a sick man in sadness make his will?” (line 197). Romeo displays that he is, when without Rosaline, incapable of moving on with love and life for she is all he craves. His love for her sickens and saddens him to his core. However only a day later does he claims to fall recklessly in love with the beautiful Juliet Capulet and forget entirely about Rosaline. This suggests that Romeo would have been willing to die for Rosaline, like he had for Juliet, meaning that if another beauty had swept him off his feet he would have forgotten his newly found wife in a heartbeat. This brings up the question on whether or not Romeo had ever actually been in love, rather than the idea of being in love. Romeo is a lover who surrounds himself in the light of fictional love stories, desperately trying to recreate the feelings he would have