Romeo in William Shakespeare's Play

Romeo in William Shakespeare's Play

Throughout the play Romeo’s character develop, as he is able to mature

and gain a two-way love. I sympathies for Romeo to a certain extent as

he is a tragic young man in many places; he tries to protect himself

as well as others. Although Romeo tries to protect lives he annoys me

as he is moody throughout the first act and is not able to come out of

his depressing mood. Romeo is madly in love with a woman called

Rosaline but as soon as he sets eyes on Juliet falls in love with her,

this shows Romeo is not a strong young man as his emotions and

feelings change suddenly. Romeo’s conducts does annoy me when he is

depressed due to unrequited love from Rosaline, when he is depressed

and moody he hides himself so know one can find him, as he would like

alone time; he asks for his cousins Benvolio for advice but then

ignores him. “Alas that love, whose views are muffled still, Should,

without eyes, see pathways to his will!” Romeo is selfish and only

does what he wants to do, he asks for advice and ignores it and still

expects Benvolio to listen to him, and this shows he is immature and

selfish. Romeo also gets another good piece of advice from Benvolio

but fails to take it. “By giving liberty unto thine eyes, Examine

other beauties” Benvolio is trying to get Romeo to look outside

Rosaline but once again pays no attention to him. This shows that

Romeo is selfish and does not like listening to others advice even if

he has asked for it. I sympathies for Romeo when the passion between

him and Juliet becomes uncontrollable as their love can not be for

filled due to an ‘ancient grudge’ between the two families, it makes

you sympathies as their love for each other is genuine and he is

trying to put Juliet before himself. By putting Juliet before himself

Romeo shows that he has more control of himself and believes in love