How is Love and Hate represented in Romeo and Juliet Essay Question: How are the themes of love and hate represented in the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’? “From ancient grudges break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean, from earth the fatal loins of these two foes. A pair of Star-crossed lovers takes their own lives.” The book ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare as an underlying conflict with the theme Love and Hate. Both Love and Hate are passionate and each has a reasoning for their behavior. The theme causes disquietude and variation but it can also cause contentment and jubilation between the Capulets and Montagues. The themes that this assay will be discussing include love, Hate brings Love closer together. The theme love in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ brings the two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, together. Even though Romeo and Juliet are the main lovers there …show more content…
Love and hate are binary opposites but the but before the death of Romeo and Juliet, the two themes fought against each other make one even more powerful. There are many examples of when Hate bring Love stronger but the major one is after all the fighting and deaths ‘Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate.’ (page: 290 Line: 290 Act 5 Scene 3) The meaning of this quotes is that if the two houses never fought then the two lovers would not have been worried about getting caught by their families and would not have killed themselves. As the hate stops the love of two people it creates greater a world where there is less hate. In the book Romeo and Juliet there is three major themes they are Love, Hate and Hate bring everyone closer together. Love and Hate as one are passionate and each has a reasoning for their behavior. The theme causes disquietude and variation. Still, in today's society, there is still conflict between different ‘types’ of people, that causes fights and sometimes