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How is Romeo’s love for Juliet different from his love for Rosaline? 5 sentences with a claim, use evidence(dialoge) from the play, and commentary.

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Romeo’s love for Juliet differs from his love for Rosaline because Rosaline’s love is distant and unreturned, making him melancholy, whereas Juliet’s love is immediate, mutual, and drives him to action. About Rosaline he laments, "She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow / Do I live dead that live to tell it now." This shows his feeling for Rosaline is passive and idealized—he pines alone for someone who will not return his affection. By contrast, upon seeing Juliet he cries, "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night," and even vows, "Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; / Henceforth I never will be Romeo." Those lines show Juliet awakens an immediate, overwhelming passion that prompts Romeo to renounce his name and take decisive, mutual action rather than remain a sorrowful admirer.