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Here’s much to do with hate but more with love is Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” more about hate or love?

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a famous play written in1595 in the 16th century. This play is both a mixture of love and hate, “two households,” had an “ancient grudge,” and this leads to both families fighting on the streets. Both families had one child. These children fell in love with one another.

        Romeo and Juliet starts with hatred and then love. It ends with both love and hatred. The prologue of Romeo and Juliet tells you the story in brief. “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” This tells us that this play also includes love and loss.

        This play is obviously about love when Romeo first meets Juliet he totally forgets about Rosaline whom he thought he loved. “Did my heart love till now? For swear it sight! For ine’er saw true beauty till this night.” This shows that he felt something for Juliet, for the first time and does not really care for Rosaline anymore. Juliet is far more beautiful. When Romeo first sees Juliet his poetic language changes immediately, he also uses images of dark and light he says that she, “outshines the burning torches on the wall,” he compares her to a “rich jewel against an African (ethiops). He says that she is a dove among all crows (ugly women). This metaphor also contrasts both dark and light. Doves are gentle, pure, innocent and peacemakers, whereas crows are Cruel, scavengers, and birds of bad omen. He also says that her hand will make his “rude” hand blessed. The final rhyming couplet emphasizes his love for Juliet, and this tells us that he has completely forgotten about Rosaline.

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        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 ...

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