Shakespeare 's plays have been read,recreated and admired for over three hundred years. One of Shakespeare 's most popular plays among the youths is The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. It is most popularly know for its overall ideas of love and hate that were developed throughout the acts and scenes, but Shakespeare isn 't the only one with ideas of love and hate. Another author Diane Ackerman has a more modern idea of love and hate in her essay Love’s Vocabulary. Shakespeare and Ackerman both use character motivation and literary devices to develop ideas about love and hate such as personification, and metaphors.
The first literary device that Shakespeare uses to portray their feeling of love and hate is personification. In this Act of the play Shakespeare is using Romeos heartbreak from finding out that
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The second literary devices that Shakespeare used to incorporate his ideas of love and hate was metaphors. Metaphors were used throughout the various acts and scenes of the play to demonstrate the multiple feelings of each character. The first metaphor demonstrating the hatred that the Montagues and Capulets have for each other is when the prince approaches both families, after their third violent outbreak on the streets of verona, “profaners of this neighbor-stained steel...you men,you beasts, that quench the fire of your pernicious rage. With purple fountains issuing from your veins”(I.i.75-78). The metaphor that shows the love aspect of the play is when Romeo is still trying to fit the pieces of love together, “love is smoke raised with the fume of sighs:being purged a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes: being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears”(I.i.183-185). The first metaphor of hate shows how the prince is so tired of them fighting each other to the point he is saying they are violating each other swords by staining them with the neighbors blood, and calling them beast and saying they are dousing the fire that they have between them with each other