Romeo & Juliet's Hidden Comic Relief: Rosaline

After a heavy, charged scene (that of romeo & juliet meeting on the balcony in her rose garden), shakespeare voices mercutio calling for romeo by talking about rosaline (his former lover). Romeo says that rosaline is beautiful but adverse to love, and it's killing him; He says, she's fair i love (1. 1. 206), but she hath forsworn to love, and in that vow / do i live dead that live to tell it. These characters, in their comic roles, serve as foils for romeo and juliet by highlighting the couple’s youth and innocence as well as the pure and vulnerable quality of their love. There is no sign of rosaline but romeo sees juliet and completely dismissing rosaline from his mind, falls madly in love with her.

So we can say that the missing. Humor in romeo and juliet provides relief amid its tragic elements. In act 2, scene 1, mercutio humorously mocks romeo's infatuation with rosaline, unaware of his love for juliet, using. Mercutio offton mocks and taunts romeo for his love for rosaline at the beginning of the play and later into the play when romeo was in love with juliet but mercutio wasn't so harsh with the. The humorous exchange between peter and the musicians at the end of act four of romeo and juliet is an example of comic relief. Rosaline is an essential character, despite her lack of presence within the play. To begin with, rosaline’s rejection of romeo is the catalyst that sets the entire plot in motion because. In willan shakespear tragedy, romeo and juliet, romeo's dramatic tone set a suspenseful mood of the parallel plot in order to foreshadow the major plot about an impossible love that has.