Disparate Emotions In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo is full of disparate emotions across the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and is a significant character to analyze for his emotional states. In the course of the play, Romeo goes through many different sentiments and the artist captured and displayed it in his artwork. As the story unfolds, Romeo feels conflicted when losing Rosaline, passionate towards Juliet when they first meet, and mournful when seeing Juliet dead. The artist painted a beautiful creation showing Romeo’s three emotional states from the opening of the play, when expressing his love for Juliet, and the closing of the play. As Romeo was diverged from Rosaline, Romeo felt conflicted because he had a deep affection with Rosaline but she did not love him. While Romeo lamented to Benvolio about his love for Rosaline, Romeo considers his love to be “misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms”(I.I.184). Romeo believed that love was bewildering and an ugly mess. To portray confliction, the artist paints uneven circles with squiggly lines in purple, bordering a blue section to represent Rosaline keeping Romeo from being an affectionate human.
Romeo is in a passionate state of emotion when meeting Juliet and is convinced that he “[never] saw true beauty till [that] night”(I.V.60) he met her, devoting to her with no delay. The artist displays Romeo’s devotion in the painting by illustrating the letter ‘X’, in a red hue, multiple times over the painting. The ‘X’ symbolizes Romeo and Juliet because they are star crossed lovers, beloveds in love with each other, but destined to crash and doom in failure because of the family vengeance between the Capulets and Montagues. The artist also colors the background yellow to depict how Romeo went from being negative and gloomy, evolving to become fond and