Romeo falls in love with Juliet at first sight, and showers her with praise. In the first line, he states, “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” The “O” shows he is sighing with passion, and emphasises the largeness of his love for Juliet. The whole quote says that not only does Juliet light up the room, but that she teaches the “torches” to light up the room as well. This shows that Romeo believes not only is Juliet perfect, but that she allows others things and people to do there job better. “So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows” does the complete opposite of the last quote, saying that Juliet is so beautiful, she makes everyone around her look ugly and disgusting. “Trooping” shows that Romeo knows Juliet is equal to everyone else, but that she still deserves far better. “And by touching hers, make blessed my rude hand” is another huge compliment, saying that not only is Romeo unworthy of Juliet, but that he would be blessed just to touch her. “Rude” highlights the fact that he is unworthy of Juliet. Romeo feels that Juliet is too beautiful for good. This is shown in the quote “Beauty too rich for use”, and shows that Romeo feels entirely out of place with Juliet. “I’ll watch her place of stand,” tell us that Romeo is so stunned at Juliet’s beauty, he just wants to stand there and watch her.
In Act 1 Scene 5, Tybalt finds out that Romeo has gate crashed the Capulet’s party, and wishes to fight Romeo due to it. However, Capulet does not want he’s party ruined, and so tells Tybalt not to. Tybalt, hating Romeo for getting away with it, swears vengeance. His hatred for Romeo at this point is shown to vast amounts in a short space of time. “To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin” is telling us that he finds Romeo’s gate crashing so infuriating, that he feels he is allowed to kill Romeo. “Not a sin” also shows that Tybalt feels God is allowing him to “Strike him dead”. When Tybalt tells Capulet of Romeo, he says “tis he, that villain Romeo”. “Villain” tells us that even though Tybalt wants to kill Romeo, he still believes he is in the right, and that Tybalt is the ‘good guy’, purely because Romeo has snuck into the party. When Capulet tells Tybalt to leave Romeo alone, Tybalt says, “It fits when such a villain is a guest”. This tells us that Tybalt thinks Capulet is a coward for not chucking Romeo out, and that “Villain” has come back, so that Tybalt feels Capulet is letting an evil person get away with invading their privacy. After Capulet tells Tybalt off for wanting to pick a fight, Tybalt says several things to do with hate. “Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting,” tells us that Tybalt now feels sick for letting and ‘evil’ person get away. “Tremble,” emphasises the fact that he feels sick of letting Romeo get away. “Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall” shows us how much Tybalt hates the fact that Romeo got away with sneaking in the party. “Now seeming sweet,” tells us that Tybalt finally acknowledges the fact that Romeo has gotten away with it. However, “convert to bitt’rest gall,” shows us that Tybalt will get revenge, and make Romeo wish he never went to the Capulet’s party.
When Romeo and Juliet first meet, they instantly fall in love with each other. However, Romeo continuously flatters Juliet, but she plays along with it and teases him. Shakespeare wrote many sonnets by themselves, but in this scene he has put some sonnets in the play (a sonnet is a poem 14 lines long, in which the rhyming scheme is a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-etc.). Romeo uses a lot of religious imagery for Juliet. “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand, To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss” tells us Romeo feels his lips are an unworthy low for the religion (portrayed as Juliet), but that kissing her once would make him worthy of kissing her again. “Rough” emphasises the fact that he feels low in class compared to Juliet. “Blushing” portrays the image that Romeo feels embarrassed just to be near Juliet. Juliet replies to Romeo with “Good pilgrim, you do wrong your had to much”. “Good pilgrim” tells us that Juliet is teasing Romeo, for she is calling him a pilgrim, as Romeo called himself that in the last quote. “You do wrong your hand too much,” tells us that Juliet is telling Romeo ‘You go against your pilgrim ways’. “Wrong your hand,” suggests the fact that he is going against prayer, hence why the rough translation is as above. “Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must be used in prayer,” tells us that Juliet is still teasing Romeo, telling him that if Romeo thinks she is so perfect, he should not even be asking her. After Juliet says this, Romeo replies “O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do”. “Dear saint” suggests that Romeo feels Juliet is still far better than everyone around her. “O” depicts the fact that Romeo is sighing with passion, and that he thinks Juliet is too good for words. The end part of the quote, “let lips do what hands do” tells us that Romeo is trying to persuade Juliet to allow a kiss.
Hate is shown in Romeo and Juliet when they realise that they are archenemies of each other. Hate is shown for the fact, and at each other. When Romeo first finds out, he says, “My life is my foe’s debt”. By saying ‘My life is my foe’s debt” tells us that Romeo feels he is so obsessed by Juliet, that he’s ‘Foe’ now owns his life. When Juliet asks the nurse who Romeo is, she says “The only son of your great enemy”. “Only” depicts the fact that Juliet is very unfortunate to fall in love with Romeo, because he is the ‘only’ person whom she cannot love. “Enemy” highlights the fact that Juliet should hate Romeo. When the nurse tells Juliet of Romeo, Juliet has a four-lined speech to signify how she feels of this. “My only love sprung from my only hate!” tells us that Juliet feels she hates Romeo for being a Montague at that moment, but also feels that she still loves him. “Only” signifies that Juliet is so obsessed by Romeo, that she will never love another man. “That I must love a loathèd enemy,” tells us again that Juliet hates Romeo for being a Montague, but still loves him from their first encounter. “Must” depicts the fact that she is being forced to love Romeo, even though she is not.
To conclude, Love and Hate are portrayed many times in Act 1 Scene 5 of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Love is portrayed in Capulet and his ‘love of life’, as it is with Romeo’s love for Juliet at first sight, and finally Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other in their first meeting. Hate is portrayed in Tybalt, when he swears vengeance to Romeo for sneaking into the party, and of Romeo and Juliet when they find out about each other being Montague and Capulet, where hate is shown in each other and at the fact they are Montague and Capulet.
