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“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into the friend,” Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr or also known as MLK was a civil right leader. He fought for what he believed in. He believed that all whites and blacks should be equal. In this quote, he explains that love is the only way to make your biggest enemy you friend. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. Their families have been rivals for ages. Romeo had walked into that party that night seeing Juliet and thinking she is the most beautiful women he has ever seen. The quote is related to this story because it brings out the aspect of hatred among the families and how Romeo and Juliet transformed themselves from an enemy

The Opposing Themes of Love and Hate in the Play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

In William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” hate is shown to be stronger than love because...

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

Love is virtually a universal emotion. Almost everyone experiences being in love or being loved, and the same thing could be said about hatred. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne discusses the similarities between love and hate. He observes that people who are in love and those who hate both feel empty with the absence of their subject of attention. At the end of his book he reflects, “It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom” (236). Hawthorne is referring to the similarities developing between loving and hateful relationships in his story. He thinks that since both require a lot of emotional investment and cause you to focus on a single person, love and hate are at their cores the same.

I think just as much as she wanted Pip to fall in love with Estella, she wanted Estella to fall in love with Pip. Dickens talks about Estella's mood swings when it came to her treatment of Pip (chapter 12) and how Miss Havisham seemed to enjoy them; it leads me to believe that Estella was having strong feelings for Pip but being trained that they were to be fought, crushed, and ignored, which must have lead to some pain, inner conflict and confusion for the young girl. Miss Havisham, I think, wanted Estella to learn this feeling of passion young, and wanted her to learn how to reject them young. It would also explain why she always loved Pip, even though she denied it. It was the only love she really ever experienced, but was never allowed to

It's easier to hate than love somebody. No man is perfect, nor is any woman. It is easier to see what is wrong with them fundamentally than what is fundamentally right with them. In Romeo and Juliet three physical conflicts occur between characters. Mercutio fights Tybalt for Romeo's honor, Tybalt fights Romeo for hatred of his kin and Paris fights Romeo out of hate and grief. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ,through Romeo’s actions, Shakespeare develops the theme that love is more powerful than hate.

Everyone has felt hate sometime in their lives varying in severity, from a mild dislike to the intense and deep hatred we see in Romeo and Juliet. In this play, we see two lovers from opposing families fall madly in love. Consequently, this relationship causes the families to commit insane acts in the blind rage of anger. By using the fierce family feud between the Capulets and Montagues, William Shakespeare makes the controversial point that anger is blinding and causes people to act out of character, departing from the traditional idea that anger is just an emotion.

In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy teaches his readers through the torment of his characters that leading a life that is self centered and lacking in compassion to one’s fellow man can ultimately lead to unhappiness at one’s death because of the realization that it was a mistake to live their life that way. Tolstoy demonstrates in various ways throughout the The Death of Ivan Ilyich how living a life caring about nothing other than following and progressing through societal norms can cause a wasted life without companionship, but one of the first instances in which Tolstoy does this is within the first chapter when he discusses the Ivan’s colleagues’ reaction to his death. Ivan’s coworkers’ immediate reaction was the thought, “Well, isn’t

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a play regarding two families who hate each other. After their children fall in love disaster strikes. Soon after the families unite and begin to care and love each other. Then Shakespeare makes it apparent that hate is just another form of love because he models love overcoming hate and solving problems caused by hate.

Quoted by Paul Coelho; “Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.” This quote signifies many things beside love, it represents honor and resentment. When a person that we love lashes out at us, or hurts us we either resent them or honor them. The book Romeo and Juliet is an excellent demonstration of love because it consists of my types. In the acts one through three, I found six types of love that were demonstrated.

Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy is an intriguing novel about a man who faces plenty of obstacles during a painful two years. He comes across a sickness that ends up killing him. No death is ever easy, however Ivans family was not there to support him when he needed them the most. Gerasim is a character that came into play and showed Ivan what It feels like to have someone care for him. Tolstoy used many details throughout his book to give a deeper insight on the message being used.

“Love always overcomes hate, but love’s effects and hate’s effects are no different in magnitude.” -Anonymous. No one ever doubts the power of love or the power of hate. For as long as time has existed people have loved and people have hated. Strong emotions persuade everyone to act on their inhibition. Everyone wants to be a hero in every situation whether it be trying to save someone or the simple act of finding a winning lottery ticket. These actions are what lead to love overcoming hate even if they are the simplest of acts. The mistake people make is them trying to hard to be the hero. This leads to one traveling great lengths to achieve their goals, but at what cost. Throughout Shakespeare’s most famous play, Romeo and Juliet, his main

The Death of Ivan is an interesting read about how perspective can change, specifically death. Tolstoy. the author, uses this short story to display how death can portray a piece of freedom. This is one of Tolstoy's first stories, this is a succesful story in the fact that he experienced some personal spiritual awareness before writing it. He really uses this story to bring his personal truths come to life. Ivan is a character that has lived a life of general purpose. He is unhappily married and just goes through the mundane of day to day life. Tolstoy takes an interesting approach of showing the behavior's of Ivan's family and him while dying first then switches back to his life and finishes with the life ending moment.

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity” said by a Russian author Leo Tolstoy whose works were influenced by exploration, military experience and family tragedy.