going to find out the difference between false love and true love.
In Act 1 Scene 1, we see Romeo chatting to his cousin Benvolio about how much
he feels for Rosaline. Romeo is really in love with Rosaline, but for some reason
she does not love him back. Romeo’s reaction and frustration makes him
extremely depressed. One thing we see is how Romeo tells Benvolio about his
depressing situation, Romeo says
“Sad hours seen long”
Which means he feels that time is dragging and making him unhappy. The
second thing that shows us that Romeo is sad is the use of oxymoron’s.
“Loving hate, Cold fire , Feather of lead and Sick health”
This shows that Romeo is confused and upset. Later on in Scene 1, Romeo says
the negative side of love because of how depressed he is “love is a smoke”
means that love is blinding him for the truth, that him and Rosaline will never
happen and “a madness” means that love makes you go crazy. Another thing is
that Romeo says two words that sound like he has suffered a loss “grief’s, heavy”
but you have grief at a funeral not when you are talking about love.
Another way he is depressed by love is the last sentence he says is “ I have lost
myself”, it is saying that he has lost his identity and he doesn’t know where he is.
As we just saw, by Romeos language used shows his false love for Rosaline has
made him depressed but once Romeo meets Juliet for the first time, there is a
shocking change. His language shows that his thoughts on love have changed
incredibly. “Like rich jewels in a Ethiopia’s ear” means that she is a rich jewel on
a dark background.
Also Romeo realizes that what he felt for Rosaline was in fact false love” Did my
heart love till now?” by him saying that, we can tell that Romeo is truly in love and
also Romeo and Juliet use religious words like “holy, saints, sin” to make their
love pure. Romeo says” This is holy shrine” to say that Juliet is like a temple to
be worshipped.
Romeo and Juliet makes a poem out of the top of their head without rehearsal,
they make a sonnet. 14 line poem and ends with a rhyming couplet and then
seals it with a kiss. So you can see that their perfect love was meant to be and
they are made for each other
To sum up everything we have seen in this essay, there are two different sides of
love, that Romeo experiences. We have also seen some fantastic uses of
language and the amazing poetry that connect together with Romeos emotions.
If you think that Romeo and Juliet will live happily ever after, you are very wrong.
Their love through the play eventually gets them both killed. They both commit
suicide at the end of the play. Death is a stronger power than love.
