Comparing love to hate isn’t really easy considering they are both very strong emotions, but if I were to pick one it’d be love. Love is one of the most important emotions anyone can feel. With enough of it it’s strong enough to move mountains. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of the characters explain that “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up peoples gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”(Lee 119). Even though Miss Maudie was talking about literal mockingbirds to Scout, Harper was making an even deeper connection with a well thought out metaphor. Lee was explaining through the character that two of the people in the book were represented as “mockingbirds”, Tom Robinson and Boo (Arthur) Radley. …show more content…
Another quote that supports this is one from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The entire story is about how love can overcome any hate but this quote really stood out “Deny thy father and refuse thy name/ or, if thou wilt not, but sworn my love/ and I’ll no longer be a Capulet”(Shakespeare II ii). Juliet is asking Romeo to give up his name, to give up being a Montague so that they can love each other, then she goes on saying that if he swears his love to her then she will no longer be a Capulet. Juliet says she loves Romeo so much she would give up her name in order for them to be together. They’re families hate each other and she doesn’t care because they’re in love. They are the the first people in their families in a long time to love each other and it can only get better from