What Are The Rules Of Romeo And Juliet

In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakspeare, there are multiple percievable moments where Romeo has followed Andreas Capellanus’ Courtly Love rules with impulsiveness . These rules “define” the perception of love and how to correctly court a girl in Medieval times. In short, these rules are centered around establishing love, constancy, and the certain lengths you have to obtain or go to, to court the person you love. Many of these rules were followed unknowingly by Romeo, the main character in Romeo and Juliet, when he fell for Juliet. One of these rules indicates that when you love someone, you can't stop thinking about them. In this scene Romeo searches for Juliet after the party, not focusing on anything else but her since the moment they met, he climbs the wall to find her.

In this moment, we see how Romeo shows Juliet what lengths he would go to just to be near Juliet and how he followed his heart’s intuition. Since he has not done anything but think about Juliet even before his own life, we know Romeo follows this rule. To follow, Romeo continuously shows us that when someone is harder to get it makes you want their love more. When we first meet Romeo he has already been defined as dramatic and desperately in love, here he is sorrowful over someone he loves but does not love him back. “Show me a mistress that is passing fair/What doth her beauty serve but as a note/Where I may read who passed that passing fair?/Farewell. Thou canst not teach me to forget.” (1.1.229-232). Romeo has a pattern of obsessing over the idea of love and the adventure of falling in love. Here, Romeo knows he cannot have Roseline making the idea of having her even more