Romeo is a son of the Montague family, and in the beginning of the play we find him lamenting his unrequited love for a girl named Rosaline. Romeo is very idealistic and dreamy, and this makes him rather prone to being dramatic. The first we hear of Romeo is that he's been spending a lot of time by himself, thinking and wandering, caught up in the longing he feels for Rosaline. We do not know...
Romeo is a son of the Montague family, and in the beginning of the play we find him lamenting his unrequited love for a girl named Rosaline. Romeo is very idealistic and dreamy, and this makes him rather prone to being dramatic. The first we hear of Romeo is that he's been spending a lot of time by himself, thinking and wandering, caught up in the longing he feels for Rosaline. We do not know much about Rosaline other than Romeo's affections for her, but we can assume based on the intensity of Romeo's actions and feelings later in the play that he has built up their potential relationship into something that does not really exist.
Romeo seems to be in love with love and the ideal of what it is like to be in love. One could argue that his greatest passion in life is love, seeing as he is willing to die for it. In addition to romantic love, Romeo feels he has a duty to honor his family. It is his contradicting passions to uphold his family name and his newfound love for Juliet that create the conflict of the play.
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