...“There’s a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you’re confusing your emotions.” Simone Elkeles. Romeo and Juliet may not actually love each other. They just think that they do. When they first kissed they had talked for five seconds and didn't even know each other's names. Romeo and Juliet have a clouded vision about how they think that they love each other so much due to the circumstances in their lives. First off, Romeo killed many of Juliet's family members. Normally anyone would be extremely mad but Juliet thinks that she loves Romeo. All Juliet’s anger and sadness about her family being killed that should be pointed towards Romeo is then turned into Romeo and Juliet’s version of love. Later her emotions change to sadness when Romeo...
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...Within the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, we see two houses both emanating hate for one another. Multiple events arose along with every different possible outcome and within these situations, had Romeo chose to act differently and thought more rationally than impulsively, perhaps his seed of love with Juliet could’ve blossomed into a magnificent flower. If Romeo has chosen to realize that time is the only barrier to love, not to spite the Capulets, and to have truly understood Juliet’s heart, this tragedy may have averted. Different events and contributions led to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, yet some factors stand out better than the others like a beacon in the midst of the dark night. Romeo may have been a Montague, but he did not hate nor despise the Capulet. He proposed marriage upon their second meeting disregarding their parental relationship. He spent less than 3 nights with Juliet and has not yet acquired the knowledge of Juliet’s thoughts. He acted irrationally choosing marriage despite the conflict revolving around the two houses, the Capulets and the Montagues. With this in mind, he should have known that any form of involvement...
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...In this paper I have chosen to inform you about the consequence of hate. It will be based on the famous William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. Hate is a strong thing that would make people do just about anything. In the play of Romeo and Juliet it shows what hatred can really do. The three things that hate caused were the death of Tybalt, Juliet being rebellious, and the death of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet was a rebellious teenager like most of us right. Her parents wanted her to marry someone that she didn’t want to so she didn’t. Instead of marry someone else she had fallen in love with a Montague which her parents hated. Instead of accepting the fact that their daughter had fallen in love with someone as an individual they judge...
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...Though Romeo and Juliet is arguably the most stereotypical love story in the English language, it portrays with a specific kind of love: young, irrational, passionate love. In this play Shakespeare ultimately suggests that, that type of love that Romeo and Juliet feel leads lovers to act out in a selfish isolation from the world around them. The two lovers anticipate officializing their marriage, but it does not define their love. Instead, their young lust is one of the main reasons why their relationship grows so intense so fast. But through all of their love and intense lust their families were still in the dark about the two of them being together and still budding heads even turn they take. Love versus hate and the many forms love takes; its power to challenge hate; the assurance of young love; the irrationality of hate and its capacity to destroy. The tragedy in Romeo and Juliet is that the two lover struggle with the fact that their families have been in a century-long feud. Like different tragedies, which ends in fatality, this play end is the death of the "star-crossed lovers." Throughout the play it creates strong feelings, or moods. In Act Five, Scene Three of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses imagery, symbolism, and irony to create such a tragic mood....
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...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...
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...Santiago De La Torre P4 Romeo and Juliet “I find no peace, and all my war is done, I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice, I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;” Edgar Allan Poe wrote in of his many great works of literature, depicting the opposing forces in nature, showing one cannot be without the other. An American writer, poet, and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most renowned writers in American history. His mastery of literary devices in his writing, such as oxymorons, gives readers a mysterious feeling as well as a deeper understanding to what he is trying to relay. Lines like these make the audience fully believe and understand the emotions of the contradicting sides. Because of the tragic, forbidden love that occurs in Romeo and Juliet, parts are needed to become more dramatic than others, and this use of figurative language gives the play that effect. Much like Edgar Allen Poe , Shakespeare’s use of oxymorons grants insight to the conflicting thoughts of the...
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...In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare develops some very interesting characters they are curious, funny, and they love drama. They love watching fights, and some even like participating in them. Some characters fight just to fight. Other characters love drama and get into arguments for no reason. I believe that people love drama and all arguments are not misunderstandings. In today’s news with everything you see about terrorists and criminals it’s hard to believe that arguments are just misunderstandings. Some people are just out to cause trouble. In the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet, The Montague Family and The Capulet family are about to have a random fight, for the reason that the Capulets are name calling because they hate...
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...eternal and universal. William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is one such text that uses the play form to address the impact of emotions overruling people’s thoughts and decisions. Shakespeare, demonstrating how their love is destroyed by the irrational hatred created by society, explores the impetuous and romantic love of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare examines the complexity of love and the inevitability of fate through the ingenious use of literary and dramatic techniques. Love is a convoluted emotion that sparks intense feelings of passion. The understanding of the emotion, its causes and consequences is timelessly relevant. The obsessive nature of love is...
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...William married Anne Hathaway when he was only just a teenager, and together they had three children: Hamlet, Susanna and Judith. Shakespeare has written many plays, and some have been re-made into famous movies such as Romeo and Juliet, McBeth and Hamlet. These show us that in today’s modern society, Shakespeare is still relevant, even if his language may not be heard or spoken. Characters We see supernatural characters in many modern movies today, such as Paranormal Activity, Wicked the musical and True Blood. Shakespeare uses Ghosts, Witches and Fairies as main stars of a few of his most famous plays: McBeth, Hamlet and A Midnight Summers Dress. With the use of these...
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...The sky is like an hourglass, time is the sand in it, while night is when most of the sand is in the bottom half, and day is when most the sand is in the upper half. Time flies by as the sand slowly slips from the upper half into the bottom half, changing day into night. In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the two houses, the Montagues and the Capulets hate each other. Romeo, a Montague, falls in love with Juliet, a Capulet, often at night, Romeo sneaks into the Capulet garden to talk to Juliet. Fate divides them apart many ways, the Prince of Verona banishes Romeo, and Juliet drinks a potion as part of a plan. But miscommunication happens and Romeo believes that Juliet is dead, thus commits suicide by drinking poison. Juliet wakes...
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...Duality is the idea of everything having an opposing truth. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s book, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, duality is the main theme. Stevenson explores the concept of duality with the setting, events that take place throughout the story and this character’s dialogue. William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, also demonstrates the inherent duality of the world. The dualities in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde consist of the duality of human nature and the duality of society; Romeo and Juliet ties in with some of these dualities. Dr. Jekyll, a character in Stevenson’s novel, is used a common example of the duality in human nature. Dr. Jekyll was thought to be an entirely good person, by the Victorian...
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...Themes of Love and Hate in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 1 Themes of Love and Hate in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a play about two young lovers, whose love was destined for destruction from the beginning because of the hatred between the two families, Montagues and Capulets. Therefore, the themes of love and hate are very important in the play as the plot is driven by these two themes. Shakespeare brings out the love between the two rivals through Romeo and Juliet and their relationships with the Friar and the Nurse. I want to argue that in the play, the themes of love and hate are closely linked. To show this, I have selected some of the most important scenes in the play, which illustrate the idea that love and hate are closely bound together. The first example is the chorus, which is found at the beginning of the play, in the prologue. It is a short summary of what the play is about. The chorus is in the form of a sonnet and sonnets were often associated with love in the time of Shakespeare. However, the words of the chorus seem to emphasize the idea of hate although there are some words about love. “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” (Prologue, 3-4) These two lines are about the feud between the families. It shows that it is a feud, which has been brewing for many years. By repeating the words civil, Shakespeare is stressing the fact that they are all civilians...
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...How does Fate play a role in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Change Slide: What is fate? Fate is the idea that the future is already planned even if people do not know what is going to happen to them. I’m going to talk about Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare's, one of the greatest love stories of all time. This story has been known to be timeless even though it was written around 1595. This play is a story of forbidden love that is resolved in two tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet, who come from feuding families. Their ignorance of defy and falling in love is not accepted by their families. For the five short days they share love, many events take place. All of the events surround characters from both the Montague and Capulet families. The powers and affects of love and hate are also very evident between the two families throughout the play. In the end, Romeo and Juliet's love finds a tragic way to overcome the hate between their families. The story mainly revolves around Juliet while she grows up and falls in love, only to have fate keep her from complete happiness. Change Slide: Juliet is the beautiful, courageous young daughter of Capulet, a rich man in Verona. Shakespeare made her character a mere thirteen years old, but she acts very mature compared to her age. She appears to be practical, honest, and loyal to herself and her family. The play is about how she discovers and loses love. She appears to have thought very little about love and marriage...
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...Both love and hate emotions has been contributed throughout the play of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; however, it is clearly shown that throughout the tragedy, it’s emphasised more on hate than love. The play portrays that not a single scene transpires in the play without a level of antagonism performing in the backdrop, constantly posing a caution on the characters and one that is present in the interactions of the characters. But that doesn’t mean love doesn’t play a big role in the novel. Either way, It is the hatred between the two families that makes them have to hide their love it's the hatred that makes Friar Laurence have to devise his crazy plan that leads up to Romeo and Juliet killed. Also, death not only get caught with...
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...Who or what is to blame for the tragic outcome of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet? In the tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, a play written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, many new themes, concepts and ideas are explored, that range from questioning the basis of society right to the concepts of fate, love and death, and addresses everything in between. They play gravitates around a central, tragic plot—starts as simple as boy meets girl, but little do they know the one cajoling a kiss from the other is the youth of their family’s greatest adversary, and this reluctance to let go leads on to a sequential chain of ill-fated events. As much as the tragedy covers many new ideas, it also leaves room for many unanswered questions. One of which...
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