Theme Of Love And Hate In Romeo And Juliet

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Love And Hate in Romeo & Juliet William Shakespeare has written numerous poems and plays, but one of his most popular works is Romeo & Juliet. With several different themes and motifs, love and hate is a prominent aspect of the play. In Romeo & Juliet, the twin forces of love and hate both destroy and create, as evident in the family feud, friendship and the love story. Shakespeare often presents these ideas very clearly and obviously, and sometimes he makes them hard to find and identify. The play begins with a fourteen line prologue describing what the audience can expect throughout. The two major families, the Capulets and the Montagues, have a long-standing feud as evident in the prologue: “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where …show more content…

This piece from the prologue also shows how Romeo and Juliet’s deaths stop the family's long standing feud. Further along near the end of the play, after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, Montague says “For I will raise her [Juliet] statue in pure gold”(5.3.298). This shows how sorry even the opposing families are of Romeo and Juliet’s fate. These passages demonstrate how love can be destructive and how tragedy can end hate. There are different friendships being made and broken during the course of this play. One of which is between Romeo and Tybalt. Romeo has always despised Tybalt (a Capulet) but as he says “Tybalt, [the reason that] I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting”(3.1.62-63) Romeo shows that he is so in love with Juliet that he will love anyone connected to her. Tybalt is Juliet’s cousin so Romeo tries to love him despite their conflict. After a short squabble between Tybalt, Romeo and Mercutio, Tybalt and Mercutio draw their swords and fight. Mercutio dies and Romeo says “Away to heaven, respective lenity,

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