Hate is one very important idea examined in Romeo and Juliet and is explored by Juliet when she states ‘Here's much to do with hate, but more with love’ (1.1.166). William Shakespeare conveys the consequences of hate in his play through the ancient feud between the Capulet’s and the Montague’s, the irrational decisions made and the deaths that resulted. It is the ancient feud between the two families that lead to the irrational decisions made by Romeo and Juliet as well as their demise. It is questionable as to whether Romeo and Juliet’s lives would be spared if their families were not feuding.
The ancient feud of unknown origin between the Capulet’s and Montague’s is a very prominent idea within the play. Its seems that the servants of both
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Romeo’s hate towards Tybalt for killing Mercutio leads him to make irrational decisions. He is so blinded by hate, that he kills Tybalt. Up until Mercutio’s murder, Romeo loves Tybalt for his relation to Juliet. This can be seen when Romeo says “ but love thee better than thou canst devise till thou shalt know the reason of my love;”(3.1.65-66). The murder of Tybalt prompts Prince Escalus to sentence Romeo with banishment to Mantua where he learns of the so-called “death” of his Juliet. This news urges Romeo to visit the nearest chemist to ask for a vial of poison that will “disperse itself through all the veins”(5.1.65). The hasty decision to use this poison as a means of death stems from the unknown hate between the two families as well as the death of Mercutio and Juliet. Juliet had no other option than to turn to the sleeping poison, for fear that if she didn’t take the potion, she would have to marry Count Paris. Lord Capulet threatened to disown Juliet if she refused to marry Count Paris, as her parents had wished. Romeo and Juliet’s hate for the feud between their families is what prompts them to end their
The Irrational Hatred in Fair Verona Everyone knows Romeo and Juliet due to the many spin offs and references in our modern day. However, this essay will go over the topic of Irrational Hatred in Romeo & Juliet. In Romeo & Juliet, the destructive effect of irrational hatred becomes apparent when the servants in the beginning of the story fight, Tybalt fights with Mercutio, and the unnecessary hostility between the Montague and the Capulet, which then causes the Prince to outlaw public fighting, the death of Tybalt, and the death of Romeo and Juliet.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said “Only love can push out the hate that lies deep within our hearts.” In this passage from the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Juliet learns that Romeo, her love, killed her cousin Tybalt. Once Juliet Learns this, she goes through a series of emotional extremities displaying herself to be emotionally impulsive.
Tybalt’s death caused a bigger hate between the two families, because as the paragraph above state, the Capulets think that Romeo is to blame for Tybalt’s death. People do not know that Tybalt was the cause of Mercutio’s death. The Capulets want to punish Romeo, because there is no other better chance for the Capulets to get their enemies than their only son. They end up going to the prince and lady Capulet say, “Of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true, for blood of ours shed blood of Montague” (ROM. 3.1. 111). Lady Capulet is being combative here she is so sad about her cousin’s death, and she tells the prince with a very respectful and begging sound to shed the blood of one of the Montagues, like what happened to the Capulets. The prince’s reaction was so kind because he only orders a banishment for Romeo. When Romeo know he reacts badly and says, “Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say “death”” (ROM. 3. 3. 12). Romeo wishes if the prince orders of killing him. He would rather death than leaving juliet alone in Verona. Leaving juliet will result of her sadness and
Grievance, irritant, malignity, enmity, and rancor, all of these words have something very in common with The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and it is they all deal with hatred. There are an innumerable number of the reasons for hate in Romeo and Juliet it is contemplated to be a theme of the tragedy. Why, so ? In the tragedy, hate was a strong procrastinator and also an antagonist by playing a big role in the way the city of Verona functioned in their daily life. First, it started way before Romeo and Juliet’s parents were born. The family soon became arch rivals and the
Later in the story, right after marrying Juliet, Romeo gets himself banished from Verona. During Act 3 Scene 1, after Tybalt kills Romeo’s best friend Mercutio, Romeo murders Tybalt. I understand being outraged after witnessing your best friend get murdered, but there was no point attacking Tybalt since he was going to be punished anyway. In Act 1, Scene 1 Lines 89-90, The Prince stated that whoever started the next fight would be punished with death. Tybalt was already going to serve justice, but Romeo attacked him, which leads to him being banished; causing Juliet to go for the potion as she saw it was her only option to escape her forced marriage with Paris since Romeo couldn t be there to help her, which led to the death of both of them.
“I’m not going to leave you two alone until after you’re married.” said Friar Lawrence. He then gestures for both Romeo and Juliet to follow him into the garden behind the church. Romeo and Juliet both stand in front of Friar Lawrence looking happier than ever. Friar Lawrence notices this and just thinks to himself about how dumb this is, but he is willing to do it in hope of stopping the feud. A feud that has been going on for so long that no one even remembers how it started and yet the family's hate each other because of it. Hate each other so much that some are willing to kill each other.
When Romeo first laid his eyes on Juliet, he instantly fell in love and his feelings began to pour out. The description of Juliet by Romeo continues, as he compares her to a beautiful dove and all the other ladies around her to awkward crows. Instantly, every women, including Rosaline, became irrelevant to Romeo. All he desired and all he could focus on at that moment was, Juliet, the woman he knew he was destined to marry. Romeo had been trapped in a deep depression a few hours before he laid his eyes on Juliet, Romeo's feelings drastically change once he sees Juliet which proves to be love at first sight. Romeos early display of affection presents him as a man who is in love with the idea of love, and in turn allows audiences to like for him, just as they imagine he would for them. Although Romeo's character was introduced a few scenes prior, he was depressed and not himself. So, the moment he met Juliet for the first time it was also the moment the audience met the real Romeo for the first time.
Romeo’s love for Juliet caused the deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio. If Romeo had not fallen in love with Juliet, her cousin, Tybalt, would not have been angry at Romeo and wanted to kill him. Tybalt would not have killed Mercutio and Romeo would not have had to kill Tybalt in return. Romeo cannot fight Tybalt because his wife, Juliet, is a Capulet, “...But love thee better than thou canst devise Till thou shalt know the reason of my love and so, good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as my own, be satisfied” (Shakespeare 3.1.66-69). This quote proves Romeo’s love for Juliet is so strong he resisted fighting Tybalt because he now loves the Capulet name, which caused Mercutio’s death as well.
Driven by his hate for the Montagues, it clouds his judgment at the point that he thinks that killing someone is okay and is the best solution, normally people would try to think of a way to politely escort the person out, but Tybalt wanted that the moment to end Romeo’s life.
Hatred Can surely Make One’s Life a living hell In Shakespeare’s famous play, Romeo and Juliet, hatred can express itself as a joker of emotion, and anyone can experience this vicious emotion in their everyday life. Can hatred really impact one’s life like a real living hell? Is hatred impacting our society negatively? Is it as depressing as Romeo and Juliet? Of course, the.
When Juliet says, “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse they name, / Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet” (2.2.36-39), this displays the feuding hate between the two families, Montague, and Capulet. In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, Ignorance and hate play a significant role. Without these two main aspects, the tragedies, would have not occurred. Three characters, Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Tybalt are directly and indirectly accountable for the deaths of Romeo, and Juliet. Capulet, is the father of Juliet, in which arranges her to marry Paris. Juliet does not like this, thus, caused dispute between both of them. Capulet displayed a very demanding character, being strict on rules. Lady Capulet, is of course the mother of Juliet, but started the whole topic of marriage at the beginning of the play. This was comparable to when Romeo liked Rosaline, but did not get the love back, as for now, Paris loved Juliet, however Juliet did not return the love back. Tybalt, is a member of the opposite family, the Montagues, in other words, the family hated by the Capulets. Tybalt also plays a character of hatred, as he kills Mercutio, first causing a fight, in who Romeo, liked very much, initiating trouble in the end. When this occurred Romeo said, “Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, / O anything of nothing first create! / O heavy lightness, serious vanity, / Misshapen chaos of wee-seeming
The emotions of love and hate are at the forefront of the theme in this play by William Shakespeare. The Oxford Standard English Dictionary defines ‘love’ as ‘to have strong feelings of affection for another adult and be romantically and sexually attracted to them, or to feel great affection for a friend or person in your family’ and defines ‘hate’ as ‘a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action dislike intensely, to feel antipathy or aversion towards someone or something’. However, words cannot portray such wide and powerful emotions. Love and hate include elements of life, passion, long-term bonding and dislike, disgust and loathing respectively. It is because
Romeo and Juliet both committed suicide with the news that their loved one was dead. Act 3 scene 1 has continuous decisions made with the heart instead of the mind. Tybalt decided to dare Romeo for a duel with so much anger built up in his heart against the Montagues. Mercutio is filled with so much hatred towards the Capulets in his heart that he decides to take Romeo’s place when Romeo declines Tybalt’s duel. Romeo goes to say, “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowst me not.”(3.1.65-68). Romeo loves Tybalt due to the fact that he is now family and his heart turns down the duel. When mercutio is slain by the hands of Tybalt, Romeo is engulfed with rage. “ Now, Tybalt, take the “villain” back again that late thou gavest me, for mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.”(3.1.132-136).With Romeo’s heart drowned in sadness and anger over mercutio, romeo doesn’t use his brain and he kills Tybalt. Overall all of the decisions made with the heart is what lead the the untimely death of the two star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet.
The Opposing Themes of Love and Hate in the Play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Further on in Act 3 after Tybalt slays Mercutio, Romeo retaliates by killing Tybalt in another act of vengeance that once again originated from hatred. Later on in Act 3 Romeo proclaims, “Staying for thine to keep him company./Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him (3.1.125-126)”. Through this statement and his actions that follow Romeo kills Tybalt in a blinding rage because of Mercutio's death. Through this murder he ends up sealing his own fate by banishing himself and being separated from Juliet which eventually leads to him killing himself because he was unable to hear the news of her “fake” death. Together the actions of Tybalt and Romeo’s hate lead to the untimely death of Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, and Mercutio which further shows that the rageful action of the human heart are the most culpable for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Hate not only makes us do things that spell our own doom but also makes us attempt to fix things in order bring back peace, this is the case of Friar Lawrence.