Romeo's Attitude Towards Relationships

In Romeo and Juliet, there is some difference between Benvolio’s attitude towards love and relationships and Romeo’s attitude towards love and relationships. During a conversation between the two in the morning in Act 1 Scene 1, Benvolio sees that Romeo is sad and approaches him to find out why he is so sad “Out of her favour, I am in love” (1, 1, 162) where ‘she’ is Rosaline and the two then talk about Romeo’s love to Rosaline and they both share their attitude about love and relationships. Benvolio thinks that love should be ‘gentle’ or pleasant when people first see it but it is a very rough experience when you have to face it “Alas that love, so gentle in his view/Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!” (1, 1, 163-164). While Romeo