Love V.S. Hate Romeo and Juliet

Love v.s. Hate Romeo and Juliet

The drama Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, demonstrates that love is a stronger emotion than hate. Love is substantially depicted because of the feud between the two families, Montague and Capulet, where a Montague and a Capulet fall in love.

The first example, Romeo tells Tybalt that he loves him, in a family kind of way. However he doesn’t understand due to the fact that he doesn’t know that Romeo and Juliet are married. When Romeo killed Tybalt, Romeo said, “Hath been my cousin.” meaning that Tybalt was his cousin, but Tybalt didn’t understand due to his unawareness of the marriage. Tybalt didn’t understand the love that Romeo gave him.

When Friar Lawrence agreed to officiate Romeo and Juliet’s wedding, despite the family feuding at the moment, he believed that he could end the feud, but ended up making it much worse. Despite the family dispute, Romeo and Juliet didn’t let anyone get in the way of their love in a marriage. Romeo and Juliet get married secretly, since they were star- crossed lovers. There love is a secret due to the disapproval and hate that was within both families. Friar Lawrence, the Nurse, Romeo, and Juliet are the only people that knows about the secret marriage that occurred.

With the love as strong as Juliet for Romeo, she was falling apart without him. Juliet took a huge step on going to Friar Lawrence’s cell, and asking for a potion to fake her death, and end up being with Romeo. In the beginning, Juliet’s father said to Paris, “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; My will to her consent is but a part. An she agree, within her scope of choice. Lies my consent and fair according voice.” Lord Capulet told Paris to take Juliet’s heart in the beginning of the story, but now she is forced to marry Count Paris. After Friar Lawrence told Juliet what he would make the potion, Juliet was scared that Friar Lawrence would dose the potion to an extent in which it could kill her. She feared on waking up and not seeing Romeo or the vault being concealed, to where she would be left with no air left to breathe, and seeing where Tybalt’s was buried.