Consider how Shakespeare presents the love between Romeo and

This could have been Shakespeare's way of mocking love and presenting it as a weakness.
             Shakespeare understood fully the importance and value of language and how it could be used to trigger any number of emotions in the audience. Firstly, he uses soliloquies throughout the play. This is a dramatic device as it lets the audience know what the character is really thinking, as thoughts and feelings can be hard to convey through actions alone. This is especially important when dealing with love, as in Romeo and Juliet'. This is because love is a complicated emotion to define and people often lie about their feelings, or say things that they do not really mean, for example when Romeo plays the part of the tragic lover in Act 1, scene 4 when he says under loves heavy burden I do sink. Very soon after he has declared his love for Rosaline, it apparently disappears and showing us that he never could have been in love with her. .
             There is an obvious change in the language Romeo uses after he meets Juliet, when he is talking to and about her and describing his feelings. When telling Benvolio of his love for Rosaline in Act 1 scene 1, Shakespeare gives Romeo short sharp lines like Out. Of love?. Out of her favour where I am in love. Everything he says about his feelings for her is a disjointed contradiction and would sound fast and confusing to the audience. This would consequently present Romeo's love for Rosaline as confused and hasty and this idea would therefore undermine the suspicion that the love could be real. However, when he meets Juliet, his language immediately becomes soft, flowing and romantic. His first description of her, in Act 1 scene 5, is that she seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. The images that he creates with his words are truly beautiful, conveying a sense of innocent awe to the audience. Each metaphor he uses, for example in Act 1 scene 5 when he says, she doth teach the torches to burn bright, will trigger a unique and separate image in each member of the audience.