Shakespeare's Representation of Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's representation of love and hate is an important theme
that runs throughout the play. Shakespeare's contrast of love and hate
when Romeo first lays eyes on Juliet, and hatred when Tybalt wants to
kill Romeo after realising that he has come to Capulet's mansion for
the party. Love and hate is the theme that I hope to deal with in this
essay and
One of the most important way that Shakespeare shows love in this
scene is when the sonnet is said by Romeo and Juliet, this is very
unusual and unique sonnet because it was normal for male's to express
their love in form of a sonnet but in this Juliet also expresses her
love for Romeo.
In this scene Romeo sees Juliet and forgets Rosaline entirely; Juliet
meets Romeo and falls just as deeply in love. The meeting of Romeo and
Juliet dominates the scene, and, with extraordinary language that
captures both the excitement and wonder that the two protagonists
feel, Shakespeare proves equal to the expectations he has set up by
delaying the meeting for an entire act.
The first conversation between Romeo and Juliet is an extended
Christian metaphor. Using this metaphor, Romeo ingeniously manages to
convince Juliet to let him kiss her. But the metaphor holds many
further functions. The religious overtones of the conversation clearly
implies that their love can be described only through the vocabulary
of religion, that pure association with God. In this way, their love
becomes associated with the purity and passion of the divine. But
there is another side to this association of personal love and
religion. In using religious language to describe their burgeoning
feelings for each other, Romeo and Juliet tiptoe on the edge of
blasphemy.
Romeo compares Juliet to an image of a saint that should be worshiped,
a role that Juliet is willing to play. Whereas the Catholic church
held that the worship of saint's images was acceptable, the Anglican
church of Elizabethan times saw it as blasphemy, a kind of idol
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