Romeo and Juliet Essay

For this projeect, I journaled about the character Romeo and I am writing this essay about how he changed through the play. Romeo Montague started out very lovestruck--young, feeble, and deeply in love with a girl named Rosaline. He was somewhat of an annoyance to his family and friends as he was always moping about love and how it was hurting him. He tries to let go of this love he has developed for Rosaline, but he simply can't. She has sworn never to marry but he still seeks her out, attending a Capulet party that she will be attending. There he meets Juliet.

Juliet changes Romeo. Instantly, Romeo forgets about Rosaline and falls deeply in love with Juliet, who in turn falls deeply in love with him. This mutual love makes Romeo not quite as angry at love, and he seems to embrace it more since Juliet loves him back. This makes him a bit more level-headed, as he is not driven insane with his love for Rosaline as he makes it possible to see Juliet every day. This also estranges him a little from his family and friends, as he starts to wonder how they can hate Juliet so much. When Mercutio dies because Romeo didn't want to fight Tybalt, as he was Juliet's cousin, he lashes out at Tybalt, kills him, and is banned from Verona.

Romeo is deeply shaken by Mercutio's death and probably thinks that he is a traitor to his family, but he doesn't care because he just wants to see Juliet. Now Romeo's alliance has shifted from purely to Montague to a little bit of Montague and Capulet. In Verona, Romeo is probably in sort of a similar state as he was at the beginning, except probably a little bit more depressed because Mercutio is dead. When he hears of Juliet's death he simply can't believe it, and when it is proven true he simply cannot take the saddness anymore and kills himself, not knowing that she was about to wake up in just a second.