Love Overpowers Hate Love and hate are two of our most immense emotions. Love, however, proves its competency again and again when put against hate. The power of love can motivate the most miserable. It can conquer even the most powerful, seemingly never-ending hatred. This is evident in the story of Romeo and Juliet. In this tragic tale, William Shakespeare shows us how powerful of an agent love truly is.
The story starts with an introduction to the centuries-old feud between the Capulets and Montagues. The hatred between these two families is very intense, but not nearly as intense as the love between their children, Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet (a Capulet). Romeo and Juliet did not let the feud stop them from loving each other; they were
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Of course, he agrees, and they get secretly married in the morning. This is a big risk because they have no idea how their families will react whenever they find out, but that doesn't matter to them. They know that as long as they can love each other, they will be okay. Soon after Romeo and Juliet's marriage, Lord Capulet arranges a marriage between Juliet and Paris. Lady Capulet tells Juliet she has a caring father who "to put [Juliet] from [her] heaviness, / Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy;" this "day of joy" refers to Juliet and Paris’s wedding day (3.5.107-109). When Juliet finds out about this, she is anything but joyful. She complains to her mother and asks her to tell her father she is not ready to be married, but her mother coldly tells her to tell him herself. Her father walks into the room and asks her mother if she delivered the news to Juliet; she tells him, "Ay, sir; but she will none," (3.5.139). Her father does not react kindly to this news. He is greatly angered by her protest and verbally …show more content…
Juliet stands her ground as long as she can and begs her father to reconsider and cancel the marriage, which only makes him angrier. This shows that Juliet is willing to risk her relationship with her parents to be with Romeo because, until this point, she had always been obedient and respectful towards them. She realizes there is no convincing her father, so she turns to Friar Laurence, her last hope. The friar and her hatch a plan: Juliet will fake her death by drinking a potion that will make her appear dead, then Romeo will take her body from the cemetery, and they can run away together, free to love each other in peace. When it comes time to drink the potion, many thoughts run through Juliet’s mind. She doesn’t know if the potion is even safe, she contemplates everything that could go wrong: how the potion could contain real poison that the friar gave her so he wouldn’t get caught for marrying her to Romeo, or how she could wake up too early and suffocate in the tomb before Romeo gets to her. After considering all of this, she still