Friday, March 11, 2011

Naive Romeo

Romeo is seen throughout the play as naive and aloof. He doesn't seem to fully grasp consequences, and the way his moods change are childish. Romeo seems to live for drama, and this gets him into trouble time after time.

The first time the aduience is introduced to Romeo's naivety is in the beginning of the play when Romeo is depressed over losing his love, Rosaline. He is naive to the world of love, and completely overdramatisizes the matter, acting like he will never love again.

"What doth her beauty serve as but as a note. Where I may read who passed that passing fair? Farewell. Thou canst not teach me to forget (Act I, i, 244-246)," Romeo whines after going on and on about Rosaline's beauty.

Although Romeo stated hours earlier he could not forget about Rosaline, he goes to a party at the Capulet estate that night and proves his naevity once again when he "falls in love" with Juliet before he even speaks with her. The very next day, he says to his friend Friar Lawrence when confronted about Rosaline, "I have forgot that name and that name's woe."

This really shows Romeo is naive because he does not yet have the adult capabilities to feel deep emotion and think of the consequences to his actions.

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