... when Benvolio asks him if he is out of love and Romeo's reply is "out of her favor where I am in love" this means that Romeo is in love with someone who doesn't love him back. We also know that Romeo likes to be alone because his farther tells Benvolio that Romeo "private in his chamber pens himself, shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, and makes himself an artificial night." This tells us that Romeo locks his windows, closes his curtains to make his room as dark as possible. The fact that he shuts himself in his room tells us that he likes to be by himself in darkness, this also expresses that he is depressed. Romeo's friends and family are worried about his state of mind because in Act One Scene One his mother says "Fright glad I am that he did not take part the fray." ...

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