Hate In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Person A is in love with his family’s enemy. Their love is mending the problems and bringing the families peace. After they fell in love, the love overpowered the hate between their families.

Person B hates his family’s enemy. The hate in between the two families grows larger as time goes on and people become more powerful. Their hate is pushing the families farther and farther apart.

If love is just a feeling, why does it have the power to destroy hate?

Because William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet highlights the strength of love over hate, love can solve problems that hate may cause.

Even though love is often labeled as a feeling, Shakespeare suggests otherwise throughout the course of Romeo and Juliet. In fact, not only does Shakespeare

Love has been studied in the past few years, and hasn’t been explained. Some people like Ann Landers, a writer for the Chicago Tribune, has taken an educated guess on what love might be: “Love is the quiet understanding and mature acceptance of imperfection” (Landers). Acceptance can change the views of people, even the families of the lovers. Romeo and Juliet both accepted the fact that they were the children of enemy families. Jeff Campagna, a writer for Thought Catalog believes that love is strong no matter the state of the lovers: “A hater’s hate is no match for a lover’s love. For even in death a lover’s love lives on when the hater’s hate turns to ash” (Campagna). In Romeo and Juliet, their love moves far beyond their deaths, to impact the families and give them the strength to forgive each other. Similarly, it can make the lovers stronger: “It gives you strength and grows beyond you to bolster your beloved” (Landers). The strength given to the lovers can influence them to make decisions that can better themselves; furthermore, love can close the gap of hate and resentment between