Romeo and Juliet Literary Analysis

Only those who have truly experienced how trying and painful loving another can often be, especially in a dangerous and unsheltered environment with the families of either partner warring against the other, can fully understand what Shakespeare explores and explains in this play. Her family would disown her if she loved him – or he would be exiled if he loved her. Such was the case for Romeo, whom Shakespeare created to represent a young, immature and fickle boy’s change to a mature, dependable, cynical man. This change occurred after Romeo’s experiences with infatuation, depression, love, murder, hatred, war between families, and tragedy. Throughout the play, Romeo grows mentally and emotionally because of the situations he gets himself into and the decisions others (especially Juliet) cause him to make.
In the beginning of the play, Romeo is portrayed as a lovesick boy who claims to have devoted his heart and soul to “Fair Rosaline” whom he never approaches or speaks...