Sometimes it takes hate to love and sometimes it takes love to hate, but fortunately, love usually wins. The strongest emotion is love. It can be harmful. It can cure. In the classic novel, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses oxymoron and irony to show what the emotion of love can do and that rivalries can be broken by love.
In the beginning of the novel, Romeo and Juliet fall in love, unknowing of their families feud. Being a Montague, Romeo could never fall in love with a Capulet. Thus, it was frowned upon by both families. In Act 1, Scene 5, Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to show that Juliet is in love with her enemy. It is dramatic irony because the readers know something the characters don’t. Eventually Juliet