William Shakespeare s Romeo And Juliet - 1320 Words

Shakespeare is thought to be on of the most superior playwrights in history as proven throughout Romeo and Juliet. Although this may seem like a play just about the Montagues and Capulets detesting one another and their teen children loving one another, it’s about so much more. Throughout the play, Shakespeare starts off with a simple explanation of love through Romeo’s eyes yet as the play proceeds on, it’s obvious that Shakespeare actually had another meaning of love in mind for Romeo. As confusing as this seems, it’s rather simple for one to wrap their mind around when reading the complex words of Shakespeare. Written no less that 400 years ago, the words of Shakespeare are still well known by high school teenage students everywhere and†¦show more content†¦This means that Rosaline is beautiful but it will all be for nothing because when she dies, her beauty will go to as with her virginity because she plans to remain chaste forever and to neve r be in a relationship - crushing Romeo’s dreams of being with her. This quote from Romeo shows that he is only really looking at Rosaline’s beauty and admiring it, not her personality, which isn’t really love. This may entail that Romeo isn’t actually in love with her, but with the idea of being in love. Another hint at this can be described in Act I, Scene 5 when Romeo not only states yet proclaims, â€Å"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.† When he’s speaking of Juliet. All of a sudden, Rosaline is expelled from Romeo’s mind and, just by a glance at Juliet, Romeo is infatuated with her. This is meant to show the theme of love but one can easily argue that it’s not Romeo falling in love. Not yet at least. Romeo’s first acts of true love aren’t until later on in the play but Shakespeare used Act I to set the scene and lay the theme of love into the l isteners (and now readers,) minds. The first time that it’s hinted that Romeo might actually find true interest in Juliet and not interest in her beauty or interest in just being in love is in Act II, the balcony scene. In Act II Scene 2, Romeo says, â€Å"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and