Pointing fingers to assign someone the blame often happens when reading. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is no exception. The story is of two star-crossed lovers who fall deeply in love then tragically die by their own hands. The blame could be given to the most probable characters. However, many small decisions made by numerous people caused Romeo and Juliet to end tragically.
Hate is like a wild fire, it destroys so much and only dies out when there is nothing left to burn. Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, are “star-crossed lovers” who get married in secret because there is a feud between their families (Act I, prologue, 6). After their marriage, they make a plan to off and because of this plan, six people die, including them. In William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, by the use of foreshadowing, conflict, and character relationships, Shakespeare shows how he believes that hate always has a negative effect.
Love is what brought young Romeo and Juliet together but it causes violence and reasons for
One way hate is shown to be stronger than love in “Romeo and Juliet” is Romeo killed Tybalt.In Act 3 Scene 1 Tybalt wanted to fight Romeo because he hated him, but Romeo Tybalt.In Act 3 Scene 1 Tybalt wanted to fight Romeo
“Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love. Why the, o brawling love, o loving hate, O anything of nothing first create!” These lines give a great summary of the play. These quote show love and hate. From the quote we can conclude that there is the existence of severe hate in the play, due to the fact that shakespeare is using two opposite words: love and hate to describe Romeo and Juliet 's relationship. “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name. Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. …’Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.” Here, Juliette is asking herself why does Romeo have to be a Montague and not a Capulet. If he was a Capulet it would mean that it would be acceptable for her to be in love with him. She suggest that romeo should give up his name but latter implies
In the play Romeo and Juliet hate is a major role in the story/play. The hate revolves around the hatred between the Montague’s and the Capulet’s. Hatred is shown throughout Romeo and Juliet as shown by peoples’ acts of violence. The story does not reveal why the hatred began, only that it was an ongoing conflict between the two families. The people who live in Verona are well aware of the continual conflict between the Montague’s and the Capulet’s. In William Shakespears’ Romeo and Juliet, hatred is shown to be a destructive force that causes people to make destructive decisions. Hatred takes a big part in the play showing violence between the 2 families that will make a drastic change in the play.
William Shakespeare wrote the tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet. The play is about two star-crossed lovers who happen to from feuding families that are filled with hate. The play is set in a city called Verona, it describes the problems and conflicts that happens when two children fall in love from hateful families. Shakespeare used the motif of love vs. hate in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is developed by an extended metaphor and a simile to describe how two people that loves each other, but their family doesn’t like each other.
Is love stronger than hate or is hate stronger than love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? My claim is that love is Stronger than hate. In this essay I will explain why love is stronger than hate and these are some of the reasons why.
Also Romeo and Juliet would not have had to come up with a plan to see each other if their families did not hate each other and their plan ends with both of them killing themselves just so they can be together.Finally throughout the story it all just kept pointing back to one major theme hate, if the families did not hate each other they would all still be alive and living happily ever after but because the two families hated each other everybody is dead and they have to live with the fact that their grudge against each other got their family
From the moment he sees her at the Capulet party, Romeo immediately falls in love with Juliet. They both fall head over heels for each other as the night progresses. During their time together, they completely put all things aside and forget everything about the world except for their love for one another. Most people seem to think this way about the romance between Romeo and Juliet, but in reality, they aren’t actually truly in love. Romeo and Juliet are not in love with each other because just a day before they met, he felt heartbroken because of a girl named Rosaline who didn 't love him, he pressures Juliet to profess her love to him, and after just barely meeting, they both agree to get married.
It can be said that violence does not solve anything and its only outcome can be more continuous violence. This statement is truly made apparent during the story, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, as well as other characters throughout the story suffer continually from violence. As it is throughout Romeo and Juliet, violence truly begets more violence when past rivalries and dangerous love are included in any given scenario.
The love between the two is forbidden because of an ancient grudge, which throughout the play is described very intensively. This is shown through multiple lines from multiple different characters, including Juliet when she says, “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me That I must love a loathèd enemy.” (1.5.152-155). This quote by Juliet shows how she was taught that the Montagues are her sworn enemy, and they are to be treated with great hatred. However she has fallen in love with Romeo
Hate is an overwhelming emotion that is an integral portion of society; expressed greatly in media such as literature. This emotion is additionally vital in a play written by William Shakespeare. A famous poet during the Elizabethan era, one of William Shakespeare’s plays entitled, Romeo and Juliet demonstrated the impact hatred has on the people it surrounds. Romeo and Juliet is a play set in Verona, Italy in which two people, infatuated with each other, venture to extreme lengths to complete their desires in opposition to the venom held between their families, conclusively leading to their demise. This feeling of detest blinds entities from morality and influences them to commit regrettable mistakes, much present in modern society through
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” The world is full of hate. Hating someone or something is a big burden to carry. A lot of the time, the hater ends up with the consequences. People like Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, who hated multiple people, ended up with very bad consequences in the end. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet develops the idea that hatred leads to destruction through situations involving Romeo and the Capulet family.
To what extent is the wish to find love amidst a raging family feud psychologically problematic or psychologically advantageous for Romeo and/or Juliet?