They were both Capulets. Perhaps their unattainability made them attractive to him.
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.
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.
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!
Before the Balcony scene, Romeo compares Juliet to Rosaline by stating that Juliet's beauty outshines that of Rosaline and makes him forget all about his previous love for Rosaline. He expresses how Juliet's beauty has captured his heart completely, in contrast to Rosaline who rejected his love.
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
Rosaline is the girl that Romeo loved before he met Juliet. She is only in the beginning of the play and she is only mentioned; she doesn't actually say anything. Romeo chooses to go to the Capulet's party because he thinks he will see Rosaline there. Except Rosaline doesn't love Romeo back
When Romeo first sees Juliet he forgets about Roseline.
Romeo's old girlfriend Rosaline is mentioned in the beginning of William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet," but she does not play a significant role in the story. Romeo quickly forgets about her when he meets Juliet and falls in love with her instead.
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 Romeo liked Rosaline but when he saw Juliet at the party he completely forgot about Rosaline and fell in love with Juliet.
In love with Rosaline.
As described by Shakespeare, Romeo was surely infatuated by rosaline, but when he met Juliet he realized what true love is.