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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.
English 10, Romeo and Juliet, Paragraph Topics. Act I, Scenes 3-5: 1. Compare the love that Romeo feels for Juliet to the love that he felt for Rosaline. (2.) Trace how fate has brought the two lovers together.
Romeo and Juliet are wanting to rush and get married because they love each other. Teenagers today are about to express their love to someone without wanting to get married.
Taylor uses things from the great Shakespeare story in her song
Romeo's love for Rosaline is superficial and conventional. His love for Juliet is real. With Rosaline he is playing the game of the male lover dying of love because the female is refusing him, in the hopes that he will eventually wear her down and get some nookie. With Juliet, he has committed his life to her service, and will act only for her benefit, and if she is dead he will no longer have a reason to live. That's real love.
Juliet compares their love to lightning because it is powerful and intense, but also fleeting. Just like lightning that strikes suddenly and then disappears, their love is passionate and electrifying but is doomed to a tragic end.
In the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet, she did not love Paris, but it seemed that Paris loved Juliet or was deeply obseesed with her that he would ask for her hand in marriage.
Early in the play, Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet's party and they both fall in love at first sight.
Juliet, of course.
Juliet.
Shakespeare's play was called Romeo and Juliet. Now guess who Juliet was in love with. Take your time . . .