Romeo And Juliet Hate Essay

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet begins as a tale of lovers caught in the crossfire of their feuding families. Without analysis, the plot guides the mind, as the two lovers die and the families reconcile, but the audience does not consider the opposite end on the scale of emotions. Hate. The hate of the families, the hate in Mercutio as he dies, the hate in Tybalt, the hate of Romeo as he leaves Juliet, the hate of Juliet towards her parents. Hate. A hate so strong that even the purest love could not break it till blood was spilled. So much hate that people die in the name of love. In Shakespeare’s words, “Do with their death bury their parents' strife” (1.1.8). Shakespeare’s theme of hate is proven with simple words. He speaks through Romeo, fickle Romeo, who summarizes it in these words: “Here's much to do with hate, but more with love./ Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,/ O anything of nothing first create!” (1.1.176-178). Romeo’s oxymoron, “O brawling love, O loving hate” shows the tightrope that the naive love and the brutal hate dance on. While Romeo and Juliet fall to one side, his parents and hers fall to the opposite. When the Prince
The hidden message in this play is that no matter how strong hate is, it can always be broken by love. This battle with hate may take years, with innocent blood being shed, but it will end in favor of love. And although Romeo and Juliet did not get the ending they deserved, they did get one thing. The prince reads Romeo’s final letter at the end of the play, saying “This letter doth make good the friar’s words, their course of love, the tidings of her death; and here he writes that he did buy a poison of a poor pothecary and therewithal came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet”(5.3.286-290). Romeo and Juliet die as they wished to live,