The world is full of interesting, counterintuitive dualities.Some of these are physical, others more emotional. Light and dark, beginning and end, love and hate. But that last duality, love and hate, is a bit confusing, because not only do they rely on each other to exist, but they always exist hand in hand. Or do they? I argue that they only exist side by side when hate is present. But that is not the only component of hate. Hate is a mix of love and fear, with just a hint of anger mixed in. Romeo and Juliet has many cases of a variety of hate related instances. Romeo and Juliet has one exceptional example of false hate, meaning when someone says they hate something/one, but don't actually. That would be Tybalt’s speech against the Montagues. “As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.” (I i 62).He clearly has been an active supporter of the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets since the beginning. Then, in the duel with Benvolio, he shows malice against Benvolio, and is likely winning against Benvolio with intents to kill. Plus, seeing as it is a brawl, he likely cannot do all of his fancy moves, so this only points to hate, right? No. There is no love present to bounce back against the hate. That hate is missing …show more content…
So do we ever see actual, true hate? I'd say yes, once. It falls right after the aforementioned non-fearful anger. Where we are, Mercutio is dead, Tybalt ran away, and Romeo is afraid of being alone in the world without Mercutio. Wouldn't it be a shame if Tybalt showed up to turn that fear angry? But doesn't hate require love to be present? I would argue that Romeo loves Mercutio immensely. Just, filial love. So now Tybalt is here, guilty of Mercutio’s death, and we have an angry, scared Romeo, who happens to have just lost love. So Romeo turns hateful, so hateful, he is able to quickly best Tybalt, and kill
In the Shakespearean play, Romeo & Juliet, aggression is represented in different ways by the different characters in the play. Tybalt, Romeo, Benvolio, and the others all have their own way of dealing with hate and anger. Some do nothing but hate while others can’t stand to see even the smallest of quarrels take place.
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Later on Tybalt the cousin of Juliet kills Mercutio and then in spite Romeo kills Tybalt. Then when Lord Capulet promises Juliet to Paris, Juliet drinks a potion that will make her fall into a deathlike sleep. Afterwords Romeo kills Paris when he finds him visiting Juliet's tomb. These are all examples where hatred causes rash decisions to be made within The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet had such a strong love that they would die for each other. This is what Shakespeare is trying to show us what love is all about and this is why he chose to write this story, not to show hate, but to show love.
The basis for the hate is introduced to the audience very early on in all three plays. The Capulets and the Montagues were neighboring feuding families. Shakespeare never states the reason for the dispute between the two but he does clearly show the hatred from the beginning. "Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" (I i 1-4). These first few lines of the play clearly describe the hatred between the two families and at the same time foreshadow an unpleasant end. In "The Merchant of Venice", Shylock more boldly states, "I hate him for he is a Christian" (I iii 39). This cry of hate is also early on in the play, which clearly helps show the reader that he is the antagonist of the play. In "Henry IV" it is revealed in the first scene that a young Hotspur has kept prisoners of war away from the King. He calls the King Bolingbroke behind his back out of disrespect. "All studies here I solemnly defy, save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke. And that same sword and buckler Prince of Wales (I iii 227-229). In Shakespearean plays, a character who hates or plots against the King is automatically the villain of the play. The first act in all three plays revealed the characters for the audience to root against throughout the play.
Robert E. Lee once said, “ What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.” Many could compare the Montagues and Capulets from the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet to the most violent rivals, the Bloods and Crips. In the short story, Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare family fueds are well intepred in the tragic love story to the rivals between the Bloods and Crips.
Love is a wonderful curse that forces us to do unexplainable things. Romeo and Juliet is a famous play written by William Shakespeare, who does an exceptional job in showing the readers what hate, mercy, death, courage, and most importantly what love looks like. This play is about two star-crossed lovers who are both willing to sacrifice their lives just to be with one another. Unfortunately tragedy falls upon the unconditional love Romeo and Juliet have for each other, but along the way they experience immeasurable forgiveness and extraordinary braveness just to be with one another. Sadly enough, love is a cause of violence in the end. Even though the pair spends less time together, it is enough for them to fall in love. It is clearly true
Throughout Romeo and Juliet we can see that hate and love are very significant themes in the play and often occur alongside each other. Although love is vital, it wouldn’t be so major if it weren’t for the elements of hate, which intensify the love by contrasting against it.
“Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet provides a mimetic resume of this rivalry between English and Italian styles of swordplay."(Saunders) Here Saunders states that we see a summary of the conflict of swordplay styles acted out. The allusion to the “subtext of English swordplay versus Italian fencing…would have been apparent in the drama to Elizabethan audiences, but it is lost on modern viewers.”(Saunders) A modern viewer lacks the background knowledge that an Elizabethan audience would have had. Without this essential knowledge this allusion goes unnoticed to most modern viewers despite the fact that there is ample evidence in the text. Curiosity might lead oneself to ask questions such as: Which houses implement which styles of swordplay and what evidence is there in the text to support this? What swords or other weapons would have been used in each of these styles?
The emotions of love and hate are at the forefront of the theme in this play by William Shakespeare. The Oxford Standard English Dictionary defines ‘love’ as ‘to have strong feelings of affection for another adult and be romantically and sexually attracted to them, or to feel great affection for a friend or person in your family’ and defines ‘hate’ as ‘a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action dislike intensely, to feel antipathy or aversion towards someone or something’. However, words cannot portray such wide and powerful emotions. Love and hate include elements of life, passion, long-term bonding and dislike, disgust and loathing respectively. It is because Shakespeare incorporates each of these elements into the play that Romeo and Juliet is the ultimate story of love and hate.
Opposites involving love and hate strongly reveal to the reader how different the Capulets and the Montagues are. Juliet realizes how she is supposed to hate Romeo when she says “My only love sprung from my only hate!” in act one scene five line 138. The love and the hate is referring to Romeo, who is a Montague. Juliet is a Capulet and referring to a Montague and the differences between the two parties. Romeo says “My life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.” What Romeo is saying is that he would rather die f
Ultimately`, William Shakespeare shows in many different ways throughout the play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, that love is the more powerful force than hate. The readers see how the characters continuously forgive one another, even when the conditions are tough. The friendships between specific characters display a loving bond that cannot be broken with hate. Shakespeare demonstrates that Romeo and Juliet’s love can overpower the hate of many events in the play. He shows that their love can even overpower the death of one of their own family members. Romeo and Juliet’s love brings friendship between their feuding families. This story is a true example of how love can conquer all.
'Romeo and Juliet' is a play written by William Shakespeare that teaches current and future generations important lessons about love and vengeance. Hatred and revenge is a key theme throughout the play as everyone is blinded by pessimistic opinions and ideas about their enemies. Although their pride and passion for violence is extremely overpowering and demeaning, there is a small seed of hope and love (Romeo and Juliet) beginning to grow in the immense darkness. By analysing these themes, it helps to enlighten and strengthen your knowledge of the consequences of forbidden love and assists the reader in becoming more optimistic.
In William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet had many issues leading towards Romeo and Juliet to commit suicide towards the end of the play. When blaming someone it means responsibility for something that is wrong or deserving censure. Accordingly, Friar Lawrence is openly accountable for Romeo and Juliet’s death. With this intention, he does not make one, but three faults that direct to their death. In particular, he marries Romeo and Juliet, he depended upon Friar John with a letter of essential information to be delivered to Romeo, and he took off when Juliet was in jeopardy at the tomb. On balance, without these critical misshapes, Romeo and Juliet would still be alive.
This is represented to by Tybalt, a main character in Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt was the nephew of Lady Capulet, he also did not like the Montagues, because of the family feud that was going on between the two. Whenever Tybalt saw a montague he, without delay, wanted to battle with them. He despised the family and all that came from it but not only did he hate the Montagues, he also hated the word peace and everything else that came along with it. He did not want anyone to be living a peaceful and joyful life. His motivation from hate caused him to make not so good choices, which eventually led to Romeo taking Tybalt's life. One of the not so brilliant choices that he made was the fact that he started a scene at the capulet feast when he saw Romeo(a Montague), he was so angry and riled when he saw him that he straight away asked him to leave or to stay and fight. Although it did not say as to why the two families feud begun we do know that it created so much frustration between the families and everyone else in Verona. Tybalt's love for hate and hate for peace caused so much commotion for him and his life. A change he underwent would have been him living his peaceful life to his life now which is sad and angry all the time. Another