The emotions of love and hate between the characters is what keeps the play alive. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses motifs to impact the understanding of the play with love and hate. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare sets examples of love and creates an understanding of the play as a whole. When Romeo was in Juliet's backyard she expressed, “It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other word would smell as sweet”(2.2.40-44). Juliet is showing her love for Romeo that even being enemies does not matter to her or if he was something awful she would still have strong love for him. Back in their times they had very strict rules between each of their families, causing them not to be able to love or see each other. They had a plan for everything and risked their lives for each other's love. For instance “Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars!
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Get me ink and paper,
And hire post-horses. I will hence tonight”(5.1.24-26). Romeo had found out that Juliet had passed and he was freaking out, so his irrational decision making was to go back to a place he knew he was banned from and would be in danger at. Romeo’s love for Juliet got in the way of thinking what should really be done in this situation. In relation to love taking over their thoughts, both Romeo and Juliet had dreams of fate together. Juliet's thoughts of, “Methinks I see thee, now thou art so