Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, was one of the first plays about romantic love. In Act I of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare demonstrates the different forms of love that the characters face. It also establishes the characters' conflict and emotions towards love. These emotions recognize an important issue known throughout the world, love. Love is important because it is a universal issue that everyone relates to. Shakespeare collaborates in Act I with unrequited love, false love, and ill-fated love to connect different audiences. These forms of love create an important theme about romantic love. One of the forms of love indicated by Shakespeare is unrequited love. Romeo has fallen deeply in love with Rosaline, but it is, "for her favor where [he] is in love" (Shakespeare.Ii173). Unrequited love is love that is not reciprocated or reciprocated. Romeo is madly in love with Rosalina who doesn't love him back. This unrequited love has given Romeo fear, he feels that he cannot love anyone else again. Being a hopeless romantic, Romeo loves the idea of ​​love, but the love he is experiencing is pain in his heart. He realizes that "love, whose sight is still muffled, / should without eyes see the paths to his will" (Ii175-177). Since Romeo has only been surrounded by hate, he always searches for love. And when he found love he never thought it would be so painful. He says that love should be blind, but it can still make people do what they want. His feelings towards love make him think that love has no value. Even though Rosaline doesn't love Romeo, her reason isn't that she's stubborn. Rosaline cannot “be struck/ by Cupid's arrow. He has the wits of Dian,/ And, in strong proof of chastity... middle of the sheet... Act I. In Act I of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare demonstrates the different forms of love that the characters face. From the beginning, Romeo struggles to find true love and what love truly is. As for Juliet, she also struggles to understand what love is, but also to find her own voice. And when they finally find true love they discover that they have fallen in love with their enemy. They both realize that the idea of ​​love can be amazing, but also a painful experience. Shakespeare demonstrates love versus evil and the forms that love takes, recognized as a universal issue that connects different audiences. The audience is captivated by telling the love and emotions shown. From the unrequited love of Romeo and Rosaline, the false love of Paris and Juliet, and the ill-fated love of Romeo and Juliet, they create the forms of love that establish love as the main theme in Act I.