How does Shakespear dramatise scenes of love and hate in Act 1 Scene 5?

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How does Shakespeare dramatise the themes of love and hate in Act 1 Scene 5?

'Romeo and Juliet' is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is about two families have an extreme hatred for each one another. Romeo, from the Montague family, and Juliet, from the Capulet family, fall in love which causes tragic deaths in each family and finally the death of Romeo and Juliet themselves. In the prologue it describes Romeo and Juliet as "star crossed lovers", and as the Elizabethans believed very strongly in fate and the stars, this part is a key sentence because they would know that Romeo and Juliet would definitely meet and definitely die. This intensifies the tragedy of the whole play.

The end of Act 1, Scene 4 is tense but at the start of Act 1, Scene 5 the tension is released and replaced by an uplifting party atmosphere. The ball is introduced by Lord Capulet saying:

"Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have toes

Unplagu'd with corns will walk bout with you."

At the end of Act 1, Scene 4, Romeo talks about how he feels there is a "consequence yet hanging in the stars".