The Themes of Love and Hate in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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The Themes of Love and Hate in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

This essay is about the contrast of love and hate in the play by

Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet". The essay tells you about how

Shakespeare uses language and actions to promote the themes of love

and hate and contrast throughout the play. The way he uses certain

characters as love and others as hate and how change the story line

with the contrast.

While Romeo is at the ball he spots Juliet and instantly falls in love

with her. He speaks to he and with their love they speak a sonnet

about love and each other.

'If I profane with my worthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this

My lips two blushing pilgrims ready to stand.'

When Romeo first sees Juliet he uses metaphors about her beauty and to

show his love to her.

'a snowy white dove trooping with crows.'

This shows that he thinks she is the most beautiful woman in the world

that he can compare to a snowy white dove trooping with crows, that

her stands out and that nothing else can compare to her beauty.

When Tybalt first sees Romeo he is furious and speaks to his friends

of the disgust that he as appeared at their party. He goes to speak to

Lord Capulet to get something done about this problem. He stomps up to

lord capulet in utter disgust. Lord capulet asks him to calm down and

not to ruin his evening.

'There in my house do him disparagement'.

Tybalt goes very angry and is totally disgraced

'Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting

I will withdraw this intrusion still.'

This contrasts the love of Romeo and Juliet and the hate of Tybalt

over Romeo.

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... middle of paper ...

... up to the challenge because of his hate of the capulets. Tybalt kills

marecutio, and Romeo wants revenge over the hate of the capulets and

his love of friendship from Benvolio. He attacks tybalt killing him in

a brutal fight he gets banished. Because of his love it means his

hatered grew stronger and caused him to get banished and for hate to

conquer.

The whole play runs in a viscous cycle of Romeo wanting his love so he

had more hatred and due to his hatred his loses his love. When Romeo

hears of Juliet's "death" he buys poison because he hates losing his

love. He goes to see her in her place of rest, and as he drinks the

poison she wakes up and Romeo dies and due to Juliet's love to him she

kills herself. In the end due to their love of each other their hatred

shone through and in the end it was hatred that won.

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