When the play start we see that Romeo is already in love with Rosaline, before he sees the love of his life and gives his heart to Juliet. However in Romeo the love for Rosaline stand for the dream life, yet undisturbed, the apostasy to emotion for emotion's sake. Romeo care for his love, he sheds tears, he cultivates solitude, and he let out his cry in the hearing of the comfortable monk, yet he stimulates his beautified with the sought out phrases. After he meet Juliet he forgot that he was in love with Rosaline. However Juliet is a current force beyond and above himself, a real fact of the world. Furthermore it is Romeo who says in the garden scene, "How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night. Like softest music to attending ears." …show more content…
The character of Romeo is one of those men to that the emotional atmosphere which is given out by the real object, and which surrounds it like a luminous fog, and is more important than the reality itself. Furthermore it is Juliet who uses direct and simple words " Farewell compliment ! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say ay. And I will take thy word." With this she has declared that her nobility is measureless, and that her love is infinite. However the wholeness and the purity of Juliet's passion is imperfect by no double self she is all and entire in each act of her soul, meanwhile Romeo, is as yet but half delivered from self-consciousness. Unfortunately they died for they love and misunderstanding, but their love is eternal and discussed even nowadays. (O'Connor. E et al. 1943, pg:33) Time In the play, early Romeo is painfully aware of the passage of time as he languish for Rosaline: "sad hours seem