Some things never cease to amaze me. Is it not strange that, in Western culture, the story of Romeo and Juliet, a couple of naive, confused children, serves as a model for the type of sublime love that’s greater than life itself?
Let’s take a good look at what happens. The story begins like this: Romeo is madly in love with… Rosaline. Yes, Rosaline.
Rosaline? Who is that? Many people forget this detail, but at the beginning of the story Romeo is in love with Rosaline, Juliet’s cousin. Here’s what Romeo says about her:
“The all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ROMEO AND JULIET, ACT 1, SCENE 2
Moments before he meets
