What if Romeo never went to the Capulet house party? If Romeo never went to the capulet's house he would still be moody about rosaline not wanting to be with him. Also, he would’ve never seen Juliet and could have avoided death or being married in the end. Romeo and Juliet weren’t in love clearly just obsessed with the fact of having attention and being in a “relationship.”
One of the reasons Romeo and Juliet’s “love” was lust because Romeo was in love with Rosaline at the time. A quote that supports my reason is “Why such is love’s transgression. Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes (act 1; scene 1; line 180; page 22.) This explains why in the beginning Romeo has been moody lately. Only because he has fallen in love with Rosaline who doesn’t want him and wants to remain a virgin, which Romeo is devastated by her decision and won’t stop talking about her. He was just in love with Rosaline and was moody and crying over the fact that she didn't want Romeo.
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Another quote that supports my reason “ oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear…” (Act 1;scene 5; line 40; page 60.) This shows that Romeo had gone to the Capulet party in disguise to watch Rosaline. But when Juliet appears in the room, Romeo catches a glimpse and is immediately in “love” and wants to meet Juliet. Romeo moved on so quickly from Rosaline and forgot why he was there in the first place once he saw Juliet appear in the room at the
At the start of the play we see that Romeo is in love with Roseline and that he only talks about her but when he meets Juliet at the party he totally forgets Roseline and falls in love with 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...
If Romeo and Juliet never fell in love, then they never would have killed themselves to be together. Their deaths helped Lord Montague and Lord Capulet to settle their differences and end the feud between the two houses. Therefore, without their lives, the feud would have never ended. This theme is important to the story because the unnecessary fighting is causing many casualties, and disturbing the peace of Verona.
Throughout the play, Romeo makes very hasty decisions, a number of that lead to unnecessary consequences. Heretofore, Romeo sneaks into the Capulet Ball with Benvolio and to cover their identity they each wore masks. Capulet allows them to enter the ball, not knowing they are from the Montague family, because he thinks it 'll be amusing for his guests,and because he remembers when he young doing similar things in pursuit of ladies. Benvolio wanted Romeo to go, therefore he could see that there were other women there who were even prettier than Rosaline, however this is where Romeo meets Juliet and quickly forgets about his initial true love whom he solely desired lust for and Romeo quickly changes his timeless love he felt with Rosaline to Juliet without any remorse. Romeo spontaneously decides he has fallen infatuated all over again, this reflects Romeo’s impulsive character. “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." Here, Romeo is asking himself, did he really love Rosaline?
It was just a coincidence that Romeo happened to meet Juliet. Near the beginning to the story Capulet decides to throw a party, where Juliet and Romeo first meet. Romeo was not an invited guest at this party because of the Capulet’s hatred for his family. He would not have even attended the party if it were not for Capulet sending a servant who could not read to deliver the invitations. The Servant happens to ask Romeo to read the invitation list for him. Romeo then finds out about the party and also that Rosaline will be attending. He then decided to attend this party as an uninvited guest. If it were not for Capulet sending incompetent help to do his tasks or if Romeo had been in a different spot at that time and did not come in contact with the servant, then Juliet and Romeo would have never even met in the first place. Also, while attending that party, Romeo is discovered at the party by Juliet’s cousin Tybalt. Tybalt has a strong hatred for all Montague’s and when he discovers that one is attending his own family’s party it really angers him. He then goes straight to the head of the Capulet family and asks for permission to fight the intruder. Capulet does not want a fight at his party so he tells Tybalt to be patient and ignore him. This of course makes Tybalt very angry, but he obeys his uncle and lets Romeo stay. If Capulet had been in an angry mood, then he might not have been so lenient at the party. If Tybalt had not gone to him and just acted under his own judgement, then Romeo would have never met Juliet, and would have been forced to leave the party or even killed. These facts prove that it was just a coincidence that Romeo and Juliet came to meet and fall in love that night. If things had not happened exactly the way they did the outcome would have been completely different.
Romeo married Juliet even though she was supposed to be his sworn enemy. He also did not want to fight with Tybalt because even though Tybalt didn’t know that they were now cousins Romeo knew and he didn’t want to bring any harm to him. Lord Capulet had portrayed this message when he was throwing his party. Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio had decided to sneak into the party that was being thrown by Lord Capulet and Tybalt had found out that Romeo was there. After Tybalt had found this out, he asked someone to fetch him his rapier.
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
In the first few events that happened in the play, the readers have already seen some poor choices Romeo and Juliet made that eventually led to their death. After Romeo learned that Juliet is a Capulet, an enemy of his family, he still chose to go back to the Capulet's house after the party hoping to see a glimpse of her as he asked himself "Can I go forward when my heart is [in the Capulet's]?" (II.i.1-2). Romeo's words reveal that he found the love of his life. He says that he cannot leave because of Juliet. He has to go back to the Capulet's orchard in order to find his h...
Then, at the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with another woman, and then all of a sudden he’s in love with Juliet, whom he’s barely met. What is up with that? You can not forget someone and fall for someone else that fast. The friar says it best when he says “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.”
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo’s impulsiveness contributes to the tragedy of the play. 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). The fact that Rosaline never shares the same feelings with Romeo, shows how quickly Romeo is to fall in love. “Out of her favor, where I am in love” (Rom. 1.1.158). Ironically, Romeo falls in love with Juliet during his plan to get closer to Rosaline. He is at a Capulet party when he first sees Juliet and
In the beginning of the story, we find out that Romeo is very depressed, but towards the end, he starts changing to be romantic. In the beginning of the story, the Montagues ask Benvolio of Romeo’s whereabouts. Benvolio answers that Romeo has seemed troubled about something since the morning. Montague quotes, “Away from light steals home my heavy son and private in his chamber pens himself, shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, and makes himself an artificial night”(I, i, 138-141). He’s talking about how Romeo looks so sad that it seems as if he doesn’t want to come home and he rather be locked up in a room with shut windows blocking daylight in or out. This makes Montague think that it sounds like Romeo is making himself live in an imaginary, not existing, fake world all by his lonesome self. When Benvolio and Romeo meet, they talk about what is bothering Romeo. This is when we learn that Romeo is depressed by the rejection of his love, Rosaline, who believes in chastity. Also, Rosaline won’t return the love that Romeo is waiting impatiently for. So this is why Romeo is heart-broken. But later, Romeo relieves his depressed feelings and he soon becomes romantic when he meets his new love, Juliet. When Romeo first sees Juliet at the Capulet ball, he completely forgets about Rosaline and falls in love with Juliet at first sight.
In this tragedy, we see Romeo lose all sense of empowerment and hope went Rosaline doesn’t like him back because she is "committing to celebesay". Romeo gives a lack of living and shuts himself away.
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.
Later on in this same scene, it is revealed that Rosaline is taking a vow of chastity, and after that, it could be inferred that Romeo does not know Rosaline well at all. He is simply interested in the concept of her, rather than being in true love with her. After he pursues Rosaline, and quickly gets over her at the masquerade party, Romeo moves on to Juliet, the two immediately “fall in love”, even though they are meeting for the first time. Romeo experiences the same thrill, speaking of Juliet in poems and flowery adjectives, for example, saying that “..It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.” (II.2.69) There are many other incidents where he speaks similarly about the two women, even though they are different.