Before Romeo meets Juliet, he loves Rosaline, Capulet's niece and Juliet's cousin.
Rosaline is the gorgeous and aloof woman Romeo crushes on until he meets the love of his life, Juliet.
Romeo is the only child of Lord and Lady Montague. When we first meet him, he believes he is in love with Rosaline, but then he meets Juliet at a party. They instantly fall in love and are married in secret the next day. The pair are separated after Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished.
In the play, Romeo reveals that Rosaline renounced love and vowed to lead a life of chastity. That original text never gave her the avenue to reciprocate and freely express her emotions, romantic or otherwise, and while her fate beyond the story is unknown, the implication is that she remained alone.
In a backstory which is unlocked gradually as the game progresses, Rosalina tells the story of how she was a girl who travelled in a spaceship to help a lost Luma find its parents, hiding the fact that she herself had lost her own mother.
Rather, Rosalie was constantly annoyed by Bella's presence, because she managed to get attention from her brother, Edward, who paid no attention to her or any other woman, even though she had no romantic feelings for him. She also thought that Bella was throwing away her life by being with a vampire.
Role in the play. Before Romeo meets Juliet, he loves Rosaline, Capulet's niece and Juliet's cousin.
Rosaline, the red-haired Capulet with a flair for rebellion enjoys her share of the forbidden romance, which soon comes to a halt when Romeo cheats on her with her younger cousin Juliet.
However, after Dario learns that Romeo has cheated on Rosaline with Juliet (even though Rosaline won't admit it), he tries to sway her opinion. Adrian tries to marry Rosaline off to a man who's much, much older than she is. Even though Juliet isn't of “marriageable age,” she elopes with Romeo.
5, line 50). With this quote, Romeo is saying that he has never found true love before even though the day before he was crying his love over Rosaline. These dramatic mood swings demonstrate that when Romeo could not love or be loved, it made him sad and depressed.
In Shakespeare's original story, Romeo is given the age of 16 years and Juliet is given the age of 13 years. The Montague and Capulet families originated in the Divine Comedy by the Italian author Dante Aligheri, rather than in Shakespeare.
In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo is a true romantic and has a real love for Rosaline, but has a more passionate love for Juliet.
Rosaline, played by Kaitlyn Dever, is Romeo's feisty ex, who never wanted to let go of Romeo, but circumstances kept them apart and put him in the path of Juliet, who happens to be Rosaline's cousin.
Rosaline's rejection of Romeo is really the impetus for his meeting Juliet. We didn't make that up. It's in Shakespeare's original text. It's the impetus for him to go off and meet Juliet, and after he meets her, Rosaline is never mentioned again or thought of again.
Rosaline doesn't like Romeo because she has chosen to become a nun and has taken a vow of chastity, which means she cannot reciprocate Romeo's feelings.
WHAT IS THE ROSALINE ENDING, EXPLAINED? Rosaline, having realized that Romeo and Juliet's love is true, enlists her suitor Dario to help Juliet. They meet up with Juliet, Juliet explains her plan, then passes out from the potion's effects. Dario runs off, leaving Rosaline caught with an unconscious Juliet.
In Rosaline, the character eventually moves on from Romeo and ends up with her suitor, Dario, part of the happy ending that changes events from Romeo and Juliet.
Encapsulating the tragedy, within a span of three to four days Romeo and Juliet fall in love, get married and die 'for each other', besides triggering other deaths. Can it even be called a love story?
Capulet, saying that Juliet will do as she is told, promises Paris that she will marry him in three days. Act 3, scene 5 Romeo and Juliet separate at the first light of day. Almost immediately her mother comes to announce that Juliet must marry Paris.
Why is Rosaline rated PG-13? The MPAA rated Rosaline PG-13 for some suggestive material and brief strong language.
Who teases Romeo about Rosaline and his love-sickness? Mercutio teases him about Rosaline.
Rosaline Capulet is Juliet's older cousin, a cartographer, someone who does not believe in arranged marriages and who has ichthyophobia or the fear of fish. She is one of the few maidens for her age in Verona, Italy, and has a line of suitors brought in by her father Friar Laurence.
8. Bradley Whitford as Adrian Capulet. Rosaline's dad just wants what any dad wants – to marry off his teenage daughter for money and land. He means well, but he just doesn't get Rosaline, y'know?
Rosaline is an unseen character and niece of Capulet. Although silent, her role is important: her lover, Romeo, first spots her cousin Juliet while trying to catch a glimpse of Rosaline at a Capulet gathering.
Juliet is just 13 years old.
In Act I, Scene III, Lady Capulet says that Juliet is “not [yet] fourteen.” She is actually just about two weeks shy of her 14th birthday. Romeo's exact age is never given.