Vacation Blog Post: Romeo's Post-Party Jam
At first Romeo feels lost due to being rejected by Rosaline, he thought that she was his true love and tried everything to make her love him back. Nothing works and Romeo turns into a moping mess. So Romeo's cousin(Benvolio) insists on him attending the Capulet's feast to see if he could find other women to gawk at. And it immediately works because when Romeo first sees Juliet he can't take his eyes off her saying that she's " Beauty too rich for use,"(54) and it's the same when Juliet first looks at him. In the play they both start playfully flirting with each other saying things like " O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do."(114). This song represents how Romeo because it symbolizes what he feels from the beginning of the scene to the end. In the beginning Romeo is still moping about his rejection from Rosaline and about his dream about being killed if he attends the Capulet feast " When tomorrow comes, i 'll be on my own,...