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- Romeo is a handsome, intelligent and sensitive person.
- Though impulsive and immature, his passion make him and extremely likeable character.
- He is not at all interested in the violence between the Capulets and the Montagues. All he is interested in is love.
- He is an affectionate and devoted friend to Benvolio. Mercutio and Friar Lawrence .
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- Romeo's role first as a melancholy lover in the opening scenes of the play and then as a Juliet's secret love is significant
- His role in the play is to function as a protagonist and tragic hero.
- The play's emphasis on characters' eyes and the act of looking accords with Romeo's role as a blind lover who doesn't believe that there could be another lady more fair than his Rosaline.
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- Romeo is initially presented as a Petrarchan lover, a man whose feelings of love aren't reciprocated by the lady he admires and who uses the poetic language of sonnets to express his emotions about his situation.
- After meeting Juliet, he abandons his tendency to be a traditional, fashionable lover, and his language becomes intense, reflecting his genuine passion for Juliet
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- QUOTES
- "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."(ACT 2, SCENE 1)
- "Thy drugs are quick, Thus with a kiss I die" (ACT 5, SCENE 3)
- "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright." (ACT 1, SCENE 5)
- "One fairer than my love? the all seeing sun Ne'er saw true beauty till this night." (ACT 1 SCENE 5)
- "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of height as rich jewel in an Ethiops ear." (ACT 1 SCENE 5)
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