In Act 1 of William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet," Romeo's attitude towards love undergoes a significant transformation. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with a woman named Rosaline, who does not have the same feelings for him. This unreturned love has left him feeling melancholy and bitter about love in general. However we see his opinions about love change extremely quickly and distinctly. Romeo changes his attitudes towards love because he first saw it as confusing and consuming; Romeo then changes to seeing love as passionate and beautiful. Romeo changes his attitude towards love as at the beginning of the play, during a conversation between him and Benvolio (Act 1 Scene 1,) Romeo is described as being ‘Out of her favour, where I am in love’ Romeo is shown as desiring affection from Rosaline, which he is not getting; this shows us that he has been consumed by love as this is all he …show more content…
He immediately forgets about Rosaline and falls head over heels for Juliet. In Act 1, Scene 5, Romeo uses passionate and poetic language to describe Juliet's beauty, such as "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright" and "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." This shows that Romeo has changed how he views love as it uses poetic devices which connotes beauty and passion as the choice of words, such as ‘night’, which gives a feeling of stars in the sky and he implies that Juliet is the brightest star in the sky as earlier Romeo describes Juliet as ‘the torches that burn bright’ the use of this extended metaphor allows the reader to have an impression that Romeo sees her as the brightest star and that he cannot stop thinking about ways to describe her. Therefore this shows that his mind is totally corrupted by love, and that he views it as beautiful and