Romeo and Juliet Essay
Impulsive decisions made between two lovers will often result in doomed love. The action, attitudes and emotions of the two protagonists in Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” indicate how hastiness leads to tragedy. Romeo’s impulsive first impression towards love illustrates how he, as any other teenager, is blinded by beauty and one’s beauteous presence. Disowning their families by loving an enemy foreshadows the fact that Romeo and Juliet will go to any extent to be together. This tragic play script depicts the unwary lives of two lovers as they hide their love from their parents.
The male protagonist, Romeo of the Shakespeare’s intense love tragedy is deemed as the most impulsive of characters as his love interest changes almost in an instant. In the beginning of the play, Romeo’s infatuation with Rosaline was quickly withdrawn after he first laid his eyes upon Juliet. His distraught tone when speaking about his first true love, Rosaline, foreshadowed the beginning of his infatuation of beauty rather than personality. When Romeo first appears in the script, he is distressed, “Out of her favour where I am in love,” (I.I.160) for the reason that the women he is lovesick over a woman who does not love him back. Romeo is hesitant but then agrees to attend the Capulet ball where he is told to consider other women, “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun never saw her match since the first world begun,” (I.2.96-97) with Romeo then arguing how there has never on earth been a woman as beautiful as Rosaline symbolising Romeo’s only physical attraction. Once at the ball, Romeo is suddenly bewitched by the beauteous presence of Juliet and questions himself, “did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night,” (I.5.51-52) entirely eliminating any memories of the woman in which he lost his heart to, Rosaline. Without realising, Romeo falls in love with Juliet who is part of the Capulet family, the family of the opposite
The male protagonist, Romeo of the Shakespeare’s intense love tragedy is deemed as the most impulsive of characters as his love interest changes almost in an instant. In the beginning of the play, Romeo’s infatuation with Rosaline was quickly withdrawn after he first laid his eyes upon Juliet. His distraught tone when speaking about his first true love, Rosaline, foreshadowed the beginning of his infatuation of beauty rather than personality. When Romeo first appears in the script, he is distressed, “Out of her favour where I am in love,” (I.I.160) for the reason that the women he is lovesick over a woman who does not love him back. Romeo is hesitant but then agrees to attend the Capulet ball where he is told to consider other women, “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun never saw her match since the first world begun,” (I.2.96-97) with Romeo then arguing how there has never on earth been a woman as beautiful as Rosaline symbolising Romeo’s only physical attraction. Once at the ball, Romeo is suddenly bewitched by the beauteous presence of Juliet and questions himself, “did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night,” (I.5.51-52) entirely eliminating any memories of the woman in which he lost his heart to, Rosaline. Without realising, Romeo falls in love with Juliet who is part of the Capulet family, the family of the opposite