Some people wonder if people can have more than one soulmate, but can you fall out of love and fall in love with someone else? When Romeo and Juliet were at the Capulet party, the first place and time the star-crossed lovers met, but when they caught each other’s eyes they felt love towards each other. In the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo was obsessed with Rosaline then he moved on. Romeo had love for Rosaline but then when he met Juliet, he fully fell in love with her and forgot all about Rosaline. The love Romeo had for Rosaline and the love he had for Juliet was different because Romeo was obsessed with Rosaline and there wasn’t that feeling of love and Rosaline didn’t want Romeo back, but when he met Juliet he fell in love with her and she wanted him back.
The love Romeo had for Rosaline wasn’t real; he had just obsessed over her. Friar Lawrence says, “For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.” (Act 2, Scene 3 Line 82). Friar Lawrence said that because when Romeo said that he got over Rosaline and now he loves Juliet, Friar doesn’t understand fully of how he got over Rosaline that quickly when a few days before he was talking about how beautiful she is and how in love he is with her. So Friar Lawrence explains that it couldn’t have been real love he was feeling, and it was just an obsession over Rosaline’s beauty.
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Romeo says to Friar Lawrence, “Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set On the fair daughter of rich Capulet. As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine, 60 And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage. When and where and how We met, we wooed and made exchange of vow, I'll tell thee as we pass, but this I pray: That thou consent to marry us today.” (Act 2, Scene 3, Lines 57-64). Romeo explains how Juliet has his heart and he loves her truly and dearly that he wants to marry her and that they are drawn to each other even though their families are supposedly