Juliet has given him a new found life. He is a complete romantic. He talks of Juliet as a ‘bright angel’ who as a ‘winged messenger of heaven’ is far above ordinary mortals on earth.
Juliet also has a dream like state however when she is on the balcony, not realising Romeos presence. Because even though she knows of the deadly feud between both sets of parents she does not blame him, just his name, she says that ‘if a rose were called but another name it would still smell as sweet’ therefore turning away the only thing that would turn her away from Romeo. Her descriptions of her ears drinking her words show that all her senses were heightened by her love for him she introduced images of mouths, ears, eyes etc… it is also Juliet that returns with practical plans for seeing each other again and arranging to be married. As Romeo believes that Juliet had been, but a dream.
Together they make their vows and their love is so strong that although Juliet is afraid of being quickly won, she is willing to give her self up to him. She says she will hold back if he does not like it in a woman, She will ‘frown and be perverse’ and refuse his affections if he dislikes her yielding to quick. She is eager to please him. Romeo becomes a true poet with Juliet, he is intoxicated by his passion for her, but Juliet becoming a realist again, points out that their love although true is too quick and rash, unadvised and like lightning.
There love is natural, you can get this from the imagery of growth in Juliet’s words ‘bud of love’ may become ‘a beauteous flower’ when they next meet. Also notice that their love has not yet bloomed at this stage and that the end of the story prevents this.
This scene opened with Romeo comparing Juliet to the sun and the stars and it ends with the real dawn arriving as the lovers depart.
Outside this scene Romeo is shown as changeable as with his love for Rosaline, who he was desperately in love with, or so it seemed. Romeo’s language toward Rosaline was artificial, intellectual and rather forced. He is not really in love with her just in the idea of being in love. Compare this with his love for Juliet; his language towards her is more passionate and sincere.
After meeting Juliet he grows more mature and even tries to make up with Tybalt, (Juliet’s cousin) however this goes terrible wrong and leads to his exile following Tybalt’s death. Despite his new found maturity and tolerance of the capulet’s, Romeo remains impulsive, he has one idea in his head which is to marry Juliet, within that he reacts to circumstances. He responds to plans though up by others (Friar Lawrence, the nurse or Juliet) and his mood swings from despair to joy, even within one scene. For example, act 3, scene 3.
Juliet who is seen as being so sweet and innocent can also be manipulative and cunning. All through the play we see her as the sweet Juliet that Romeo believes her to be. In the balcony seen she talks of her love for Romeo, not caring about the feud between the parents, this shows her as naive, because as we see later on in the play
