Romeo and Juliet - Love and Hate.
Romeo and Juliet - Love and Hate The Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet shows hatred in the way of starting the story with explosions gun fire and fighting. This kind of hatred shows tensions and establishes the power, depth and extent of hatred between both families.The background of the hatred shows the reader/viewer its difficult for love. Many oxymoron's are expressed to show Romeo's emotions such as; 'in love'-'unloved.' I found out that the theme of the play is- 'true love hurts. Love is weird and happens when you least expect it. Humour is shown with Romeo's love in the way of his unfortunate love with Rosoline as one minute he is talking about her all the time and then Juliet comes into his life and she just so happens to be from the rival family. Act One starts with hate from the fighting between both families and ends in love with Romeo falling in love with Juliet. 'But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, My will to her consent is but a part.' He is saying, get to know Juliet, get her to love you. He wants his daughter to marry someone she loves. The nurse plays a crucial role in the play in the way she is cruder and rude and shows realism in love and sex. When Romeo says 'Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like a thorn,' to Mercutio and he replies 'If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love
Romeo and Juliet - Love and hate.
Wednesday 19th February 2004 GCSE Coursework - Romeo and Juliet coursework Love and hate are the two main themes in this play. These two themes are the complete opposite to each other. This will make it a lot easier two compare and contrast. The way these two themes are used helps to make this a more interesting story as it allows for two different plots. For example Romeo and Juliet's love plot and the hate plot of the fighting of the two families. Also some of these scenes have both of the themes at the same time for example the Capulet party where it skips from the love of Romeo and Juliet and the hatred from Tybalt. There are two characters that are used to epitomize love and hate. These are Tybalt and Romeo. This is so that we can see a major contrast between the two personalities. We can see this difference in the way they speak. For example Romeo (the love character) uses his hyperbole to describe how beautiful Juliet is 'she doth teach the torches to burn bright', 'a snowy dove trooping with crows' this shows that he think she is so beautiful that she stands out from the rest of the crowd. However the use of speech is much different for Tybalt (the hate character) as he used in a way his own hyperbole to describe Romeos intrusion of the party. He says 'this is a Montague our foe', 'that villain Romeo' and 'I'll not endure him.' This shows he has nothing but hatred
Romeo and Juliet Love or Hate
Themes of Love and Hate in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet The passionate love of Romeo and Juliet conflicts with the harsh contrast of the hate between their families and the society they live in. The play is written by Shakespeare who lived in the Elizabethan time. In that time (16th Century) the sonnet was the most popular type of poetry. The prologue to the play is a sonnet, as is the prologue to Act2. When Romeo is first shown in the play he is portraying a conventional view of love, also called courtly and/or Petrachan love. It is the feeling that Romeo experiences in the opening scenes, as he knows Rosaline is not to be 'hit with Cupids arrow'. He is not really in love with Rosaline however; he is just in love with being in love. He enjoys being lovesick, his language for shows this "O heavy lightness, serious vanity" (line 169 Act 1 Scene1). An oxymoron, he has wrapped the words around in language and it shows that when he talks of Rosaline that he is simply talking of artificial love. However when he sees Juliet he says, "For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night"(line 52 Act 1 Scene 5) he is speaking simple, as Romeo is speaking from his heart. His feelings are so strong that he believes no one else apart from Rosaline will suit him. As a point to show this to Mercutio and Benvolio, he agrees to go to the Capulet's ball. Although Romeo and Juliet is set 300
Love and Hate In Romeo and Juliet
"Romeo and Juliet" Love and Hate In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare wrote the story of two lover's Romeo and Juliet. The love of Romeo and Juliet was a great and unforgettable love. The two cross star lovers had shared their love and hate to each other. The families had to have love and hate or story would have been so good. The fight of Merutio and Tybalt was an act of hate between the two societies. In that sence Romeo had to show his hate by killing Tybalt. Romeo just got marry and now kills the wife's cousin that was an act of real hate. The fact about this part was that hate over ruled the love of Romeo to its family. The love of them had the great effect on them. The fact is that hate was more powerful in a way that it beat love. After that what did Juliet think about Romeo, the killer of her cousin, she did not realy care about it. But she only care about was Romeo did not get kill for the murder. Love over power the hate this time. But can love over power the hate of two families? Many time in the story the love over turns and sometimes it the other way around. Both of the family went mad when one of the family member got killed. The hate between them all started with the parents. Being in the book of Romeo and Juliet the two families the started fight cause of one the family made a joke about the other family and it
Romeo and Juliet: Love vs. Hate
Romeo and Juliet: Love vs. Hate Love or hate? Most people would say the prevailing emotion is love, and I agree with this however hate also plays a big part in the play. There are many different types of love shown in the play such as the love between Romeo and Juliet compared to the love between the Nurse and Juliet. The love shown to Juliet by Nurse is a motherly type and most probably unconditional, she acts like more of a mother to Juliet than Lady Capulet does. Also Nurse knows Juliet best and is really the one who raised her; she makes this clear throughout the play. This is shown when Nurse tells Lord Capulet 'you are to blame, my lord, to rate her so'. In response he attacks her verbally and also physically, so Nurse gives up. However she did defend Juliet as if in a protective mother-like way unlike Lady Capulet, Juliet's actual mother. The Nurse then decides that Juliet has no choice but to marry Paris. She knows Juliet's love for Romeo is real, but in order to save Juliet from the disastrous consequences of her secret marriage, she tries to make a second marriage to Paris seem acceptable. This shows how much Nurse cares for Juliet as she doesn't want her to have to face Lord Capulet's consequences if he found out about her and Romeo's secret marriage. Also to stand up for Juliet like she did was very courageous because Lord Capulet is after all her boss. One of
Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet
Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet Love Love 1: Romeo sees Juliet at the Capulet feast and falls instantly in love with her. Rosaline is simply a long-lost memory at this point. Even Romeo admits that he never really saw what true beauty or love was until this night, that he beholds Juliet. It is at this point that Romeo himself realizes the difference in the love he thought he felt for Rosaline and the love he now feels for Juliet. Act 1 scene 5. Love 2: Juliet, from her balcony, proclaims her love for Romeo, who is below in the Capulet orchard. She is so in love with Romeo that she tells him she is willing to denounce her name, and no longer be a Capulet. Act 2 scene 2. Love 3: The fight between Mercutio and Tybalt happened because Tybalt made an insult on Mercutio. Romeo could've helped Mercutio but he didn't as Tybalt was Juliet's cousin and Romeo had now been married to Juliet. He says" But I love thee better than thou canst devise, till thou shalt know reason of my love." Act 3 scene 1. Love 4: While Juliet is waiting for Romeo to arrive at her bed chamber, she speaks about her love for him. She says that he will be the stars in the night sky, and that all of the world will be in love with night, if this is so. She also is impatiently waiting to consummate her new marriage with Romeo. Act three scene 2. Love 5: This is
Love Against Hate in Romeo and Juliet
Love verses hate is one of the major themes in the play and most of the action in the play relates to one, or the other. There are many examples of love in 'Romeo and Juliet'; Family love, love of friendship, forbidden love and sexual love. However, I will only discuss the three main kinds of love; courtly love, physical love and spiritual love, in this essay. The main importance for the variety of kinds of love is to engage the audience by changing the language and representing each kind of love with bold characters. Shakespeare adds interest to the play by interchanging scenes of different kinds of love to make the dramatic difference between them obvious. The convection of courtly love originated in the medieval period and was recognised among the Victorian upper class. It involved intense adoration and respect by a man towards a woman who was pure or in some other way unattainable. Romeo suffers the stereotypical symptoms in Act1 Scene1. He is a courtly lover for a girl named Rosaline. Romeo feels lovesick for Rosaline but she does not return the feelings, which makes it typically courtly love. Rosaline is unattainable and refuses Romeo's love because she has sworn never to marry, "She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow" His love for Rosaline may seem deep, but it is truer to say the love is artificial and lacks sincerity and passion. His behaviour involves mooning
Romeo and Juliet - The Contrast of Love and Hate
Romeo and Juliet The Contrast of Love and Hate Bharatjit Basuta (11kw) Romeo and Juliet is a love story that has more hostility and bloodshed than most of to day's common television series. The play begins with an insurrection of the civilian people, ends with a double suicide, and in between of this hostility and bloodshed there is an act of three murders. All of this takes place in the duration of four petite days. In the love story of Romeo and Juliet it is frequent for love to turn to hate from one line to another. This indistinctness is reflected throughout Romeo and Juliet, whose language is riddled with oxymorons. "O brawling love, O loving hate," Romeo cries in the play's very first scene, using a figure of speech and setting up a theme of love and hate that is played out during the five acts. In act one scene five Romeo lays eyes Juliet for the first time, he is stunned by her exquisiteness and describes her beauty using the language of a sonnet. The imagery used by Romeo to describe Juliet gives central insight into their relationship. Romeo firstly describes Juliet as a source of light, like a star, against the darkness: "she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night." As the play progresses, a cloak of interwoven light and dark metaphors is emitted around the pair. The lovers are repetitively associated with the dark, an
comparison of love and hate in romeo and juliet
"Here's much to do with hate, but more with love." Compare the presentation of love and hate in Romeo and Juliet with specific reference to act one scene one and act two scene two. Is the play more about love or hate? William Shakespeare was an actor/poet/playwright. A few years after being recognised as this he joined up with one of the most successful acting troupes in London. In 1599 they lost the theatre where they worked but were now wealthy enough to build their own theatre that they named 'The Globe'. It was however in 1595/96 that Romeo and Juliet was believed to have been written. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. Set in Verona, it is about two feuding families, to which no amount of fighting or talking ever helps stop the feud. However two teenagers from opposite families fall in love. In Romeo and Juliet we are introduced to that love and guided through it. Then we see it end in violence because they couldn't be together and finally we see that their death was the only thing that could ever stop the on going hatred, these are the two main themes. Love and hate. They do however cause a lot of other ongoing themes such as pride, loyalty and family. They also extend into different types of love and hatred. We see the love grow from something sexual into something physical and as it does we also see the hatred grow from something petty and violent into a deep set full
Presentation of love and hate in romeo and Juliet
The themes of love and hate in the most excellent and lamentable tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. 'The most excellent and lamentable tragedy of Romeo and Juliet' is one of the most performed plays in history; it has been recreated in film and intoxicated its audiences with its tale of forbidden love and blinding hatred. The play is brimming with contradictions, oxymorons and contrasts. 'O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create!'(I.I.176-177) is a quote which sums up the play in its entirety. 'Romeo and Juliet' is set in the town of Verona in northern Italy, and throughout the play, certain themes recur time and time again. Violence, death and duty just to name some of them; however the most prominent themes that recur in the play are those of love and hate. Although 'Romeo and Juliet' is a love story; the love shown in the play is by no means just romantic. There is the love that Romeo feels for Rosaline, which is lustful and slightly obsessive; the love that Romeo feels towards Benvolio and Mercutio which is a bond of friendship. There is the paternal love that Friar Lawrence shows towards Romeo, and to a lesser extent, Juliet, and there is the deep true love that blossoms between Romeo and Juliet. Also, there is Romeo's love with the idea of being in love and Juliet's love for her own pure, angelic self image. If marriage has anything to do with love
