he isn't really in love with her, hes in love with her beauty. you can tell this by how quickly he moves on to Juliet and completley forgets about rosaline. the friar even comments at one point that rosaline knew that romeo didnt have true love for her and that is part of the reasons that she didn't love him back. he says something along the lines of "young men love with their eyes and not their hearts" saying that romeo falls in love with womens beauty and not their personalities.
At first, he is love sick with Rosaline, his neice, but when he attended the Capulet's ball, he instantly forgets about Rosaline and is deeply in love with Juliet, a Capulet.
its ironic because romeos suppossed to be in love with juliet like the name romeo and juliet the whole crowd below knows their name and they think hes talking about juliet but hes really talking about her cousin
They were both Capulets. Perhaps their unattainability made them attractive to him.
Inflation or infatuation?
Romeo's heart was broken by Rosaline before he met Juliet. Romeo was in love with Rosaline at the beginning of the play, but she did not return his affections, which left him heartbroken until he met Juliet.
Mercutio praises Rosaline in an attempt to attract Romeo's attention. He mocks love and tries to get Romeo to forget about his love for Rosaline by teasing him.
He heard that Rosaline was going to be there and he wanted to see her.
At the opening of Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio teases Romeo about being in love with Rosaline. Romeo is having no success with Rosaline (and in fact he goes to the Capulet's ball because he believes she will be there). We do not know if Rosaline is Romeo's first love - for all we know he may have had many girlfriends before her. But she never appears in the play, and as soon as Romeo sees Juliet he forgets all about her. I thought that he went becasue his friend made him go!
Mercutio accuses Romeo of being afflicted by love-sickness, specifically for Rosaline. He mocks Romeo for his infatuation, attributing his behavior to being love-struck.
Yes, Romeo's feelings for Juliet are more passionate and intense compared to his feelings for Rosaline. With Juliet, he experiences true love, while with Rosaline, it seems more like infatuation. Juliet inspires Romeo to be more mature and responsible, while Rosaline's rejection leads him to despair.
Benvolio is referring to Romeo's unrequited love for Rosaline. Despite Romeo's infatuation with Rosaline being one-sided and causing him pain, he continues to pursue her without considering other options. Benvolio believes Romeo is "blind" to the possibility of finding love elsewhere.
In his speech, Mercutio thinks that Romeo is in love with Rosaline, a character who is unattainable and does not return Romeo's affections. He addresses Romeo's infatuation with humor and sarcasm, highlighting Romeo's romanticized and idealized view of love.