When Romeo first sees Juliet he uses metaphors about her beauty and to show his love to her.
'a snowy white dove trooping with crows.'
This shows that he thinks she is the most beautiful woman in the world that he can compare to a snowy white dove trooping with crows, that her stands out and that nothing else can compare to her beauty.
When Tybalt first sees Romeo he is furious and speaks to his friends of the disgust that he as appeared at their party. He goes to speak to Lord Capulet to get something done about this problem. He stomps up to lord capulet in utter disgust. Lord capulet asks him to calm down and not to ruin his evening.
'There in my house do him disparagement'.
Tybalt goes very angry and is totally disgraced
'Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting
I will withdraw this intrusion still.'
This contrasts the love of Romeo and Juliet and the hate of Tybalt over Romeo.
When Romeo and Juliet meet they both speak in perfect harmony in one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnet of love. This shows how much Romeo loves Juliet. The sonnet is split in half each Romeo and Juliet saying half each. By doing this Shakespeare shows that this is true love.
'have not saint lips, and holy partners too.
Ay pilgrim, lips they most use in prayer.
Often, dear saint let lips do what hands do.'
Willett 10 PL 20/03/2003
When Romeo and Juliet realise who each other really are they feel unhappy and surprised as they know that they will not be able to see each other as their families Karl
will disagree. This is a big contrast as their families hate for each other has made it near impossible for Romeo and Juliet to love each other.
At the end of act 1 scene 5 we are left with one line which sums up the whole play
'My only love sprung from my only hate.'
This shows that Juliet loves him but from her past hate she is confused and doesn't know what to do as she can not be seen with him. This is when the contrast really splits they play as love is stopped by hate.
When Romeo and Juliet go and see friar Lawrence they feel more optimistic as he has a plan to solve their love. At this point it looks as if love might just conquer all and that it will be a happy ending. His plan looks as if it will work and get Romeo and Juliet back together. As Romeo has been banished from Verona due to him killing a
Capulet, Tybalt due to his hate of him he has stopped his and Romeo and Juliet's love progressing.
Tybalt challenged Romeo to a dual but Romeo had resisted. Because of his love this caused more hate. Benvolio, Romeo's best friend stepped up to the challenge because of his hate of the capulets. Tybalt kills marecutio, and Romeo wants revenge over the hate of the capulets and his love of friendship from Benvolio. He attacks tybalt killing him in a brutal fight he gets banished. Because of his love it means his hatered grew stronger and caused him to get banished and for hate to conquer.
The whole play runs in a viscous cycle of Romeo wanting his love so he had more hatred and due to his hatred his loses his love. When Romeo hears of Juliet's "death" he buys poison because he hates losing his love. He goes to see her in her place of rest, and as he drinks the poison she wakes up and Romeo dies and due to Juliet's love to him she kills herself. In the end due to their love of each other their hatred shone through and in the end it was hatred that won.
