Early on Romeo remarks:" Here's much to do with hate, but more with love". Is this a play about love or hate- or both? By referring to the text, motivate your answer.

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Aryana Masoudi Kashani 10 F

Early on Romeo remarks:” Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love”. Is this a play about love or hate- or both? By referring to the text, motivate your answer.

        The play is motivated by both love and hate. As there are a variety of characters that all are motivated by love or hate in different ways. The love which Romeo and Juliet feel shows that this play is also about passion and love. Where as some may say that the play is motivated by hate as the two families” ancient grudge” has not ceased to stop. This suggests that the balance of love and gate throughout the play is constant.

        In act1 scene2 Romeo an assortment of oxymoron’s ” heavy lightness, loving hate (and) serious vanity” to describe his feelings about the concept of love, having had unrequited love from Rosaline. The oxymoron’s show us also that Romeo finds the concept of love a confusing one. But this can also be interpreted as thinking that Romeo thinks that the concept of love is pointless and will only get hurt in trying to love again. This suggests that love might be as “much to do with hate” as with love.

        The main feature of love in this play is expressed through the language used by Romeo prior to meeting Juliet at the party. He uses imagery of light and dark to describe Juliet as being a “ snowy dove” in a crowd of “ crows”. This reveals that being in this corrupt society that their love can’t last and that the product will be hate towards society from Romeo and Juliet. This displays that even in a place full of hate that love as passionate as the one that Romeo expresses for Juliet can still exist and thrive.

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        Probably one of the most dominant hates which exists is one between Tybalt and Montague’s in particular, Romeo. The first instant that the audience sees Tybalt become infuriated takes place in the party. Where there is a contrast between Romeo’s passion for Juliet “What lady’s that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight?” and Tybalt’s hatred for Romeo “To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin”. This suggests that although both love and hate are present at the party that love seems to come out on top, as Tybalt can not slay the “villain that is hither ...

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