In act 1.5 Romeo gate crashes Capulet party and falls in love with Juliet. I act 2.2 Romeo climbed into Capulet Orchard. He sees Juliet at the window and speaks of his love for her. Juliet thinking she is alone speaks of her love for Romeo and says that it is only his name not Romeo himself who is their enemy. When Romeo talks to her, Juliet gets embarrassed but they soon speak to one another of love and marriage. Romeo always uses comparison to describe Juliet’s examples are “As a rich jewel in ethiop’s ear,” “so shows a snowy dove trooping with crows” Romeo is a Montague so he cannot marry Juliet. We never get to learn how their families got to be enemies. These poor lovers got trapped in their parent’s argument. They go married but only four people knew about this. The lovers, the Juliet’s nurse and the friar nobody else knows about it and it is going to be kept a secret. Juliet’s quote of both love and hate is “my only love sprung from my only hate! To early seen unknown and known to late! Prodigious birth of love is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.” This shows that even if Romeo’s from the enemy’s side. She will still love him and he’ll be her only love it’s his name not him who’s the enemy.
The friar loves god and prays to him lots. This is show throughout the play, he also believes in both Romeo and Juliet’s love and he was the person who married Romeo and Juliet. Paris a rich gentlemen who was supposed to be marrying Juliet has no idea of this relationship between the lovers. Juliet’s is now marrying again, this time with Paris not Romeo. Juliet tried telling of her love for Romeo but nobody would listen. Benvolio loves all his friends and everyone surrounding him Benvolio treats everyone lovingly. This is how he keeps the peace. We know this from the quote, “The quarrel is between our masters.”
Hate is also a powerful theme in the play because it even has tragic deaths caused by this grudge. It has created lots of problems; lives were taken of innocent people. Shakespeare has written a very emotional story which is still famous, today. Juliet’s maid didn’t think much of this enemity, but people like Tybalt thought of this family feud as a major issue also the capulets thought of this as a major thing also.
Capulet and Tybalt are two people full of hate, both of these people were the capulets and as such are aggressive people Tybalt is a very aggressive, violent and an angry person. He says things like, “look upon thy death.” his behavior and speech tells us that he has no peace in his mind. He hates Montague’s more than anything. “Talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell all Montague’s and the.” He does not want peace between both families. Tybalt does not want peace because he is a very aggressive and vicious character. Tybalt is insecure. Capulet only loves Tybalt and himself. Tybalt does not love anyone and is very lonely.
Act 3.1 is very dramatic and sad. It is an important scene in Shakespeare’s play because there are a lot of changes in the characters and plot. The Montague’s are in the streets of Verona, later the Capulets arrive Tybalt is looking for Romeo. Mercutio insults him. Romeo is related to Tybalt so he does not want to fight him. He is related to Tybalt because of his and Juliet marriage which only four people know of. Mercutio cannot believe that Romeo has walked away from an insult. This tells me that Mercutio is an attention-seeker, which causes him to draw his sword. Romeo tries to come between Mercutio. Tybalt wants to kill Romeo because he saw Romeo at the party. When Romeo hears Mercutio is dead. He kills Tybalt. Romeo stands there shocked. The prince then asks Benvolio what happened. Benvolio then told the whole truth. The prince banished Romeo from Verona. If he was seen in Verona again he would be killed. Romeos language in this scene shows, how he changes from a loving poetic character to someone full of hate.
Romeo is no a loving character he soon turns into a revenger full of hate. We know this by act 3.1 when Romeo killed Tybalt. Paris hates Romeo. This is because he killed Tybalt. Later Juliet hates Capulet because he is forcing get to marry Paris. The nurse also show hate in the second half of the play. She hates Capulet because he won’t let Juliet marry Romeo.
In spite of all the increasing hatred, the final image in the play is of peace between the families. This is because of the death of the two lovers. Romeo thought that Juliet had died so he went to see her. He had taken a bottle full of poison with him. He saw Juliet lying there. Thinking she was dead Romeo took the poison, but Juliet was not dead she had taken a potion so that nobody could hear her breathing. This potion also made her fall into a deep sleep. She woke up and saw Romeo dead so she stabs herself with Romeos knife. This brought peace to both families.
I personally think this play is a mixture of both love and hatred. When the play is about mostly love there is hatred present. When the play is mostly about hatred there is still love present. Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a mixture f both love and hate.