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What is a quote that shows if Romeo is more in love with Juliet or Rosaline in "Romeo and Juliet"?

Romeo loves Juliet because she returns his affections.


Romeo was very depressed when Rosaline dumped him.  She told him that she was not interested in dating, and he considered this a waste. She was beautiful, and she should have had a man, in his opinion. He moped around, gloomily pining for her. He decried her decision to live “chaste.”


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Romeo loves Juliet because she returns his affections.


Romeo was very depressed when Rosaline dumped him.  She told him that she was not interested in dating, and he considered this a waste. She was beautiful, and she should have had a man, in his opinion. He moped around, gloomily pining for her. He decried her decision to live “chaste.”



She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,
For beauty starved with her severity
Cuts beauty off from all posterity.
She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,
To merit bliss by making me despair:
She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
Do I live dead that live to tell it now. (Act 1, Scene 1)



When Romeo’s friends convince him to go to the Capulet ball, one of the reasons that he agrees to go is because Rosaline will be there. His friends have encouraged him to look for other women, but Romeo is not really in a party mood. All of that changes when he sees Juliet. Romeo seems to fall head-over-heels in love in an instant.



O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. (Act 1, Scene 5)



When Friar Laurence finds out, he is not sure that Romeo’s love is true. He accuses him of going from one girl to another. Romeo tells reminds the Friar that he chided him for loving Rosaline. Juliet, Romeo says, is another matter. She loves him back. If I was going to choose one quote that proves Romeo loves Juliet more, it would be this one.



ROMEO


I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now
Doth grace for grace and love for love allow;
The other did not so. (Act 2, Scene 3)



Friar Laurence believes he is sincere, and agrees to marry them. In fact, he has to marry them in secret because their two families would never approve. Romeo is in love with Juliet, and in fact cannot bear to part from her when he is banished. Romeo may fall in love easily, but he does seem to love deeply. Whatever he felt for Rosaline, it was fleeting. He is deeply in love with Juliet.

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