Romeo And Juliet Love And Hate

“There’s a fine line between love and hate. Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.” These words, spoken by Cecelia Ahern, are well known today, although most have never looked in depth of what they truly mean. Paradox’s are everywhere. Although two opposites may seem so different, we find it impossible to know what one is without the other. You can’t have a day without a night, or a joyful mood without knowing your poor moods, or a sunny day without going through a storm. One of the most well known paradoxes is love and hate. Love and hate surrounds people daily, and make up everything they are, see, and do. Although many do not recognize the power both love and hate have over them, love and hate affects every

Shakespeare has many prime examples of symbolism in Romeo and Juliet that helps the audience understand the relationship love and hate have, and how it relates to the plot. One example is of the light and dark (day and night). Although the day has the sun and is brighter and happier, their love flourishes in the dark. Due to this, Romeo constantly refers to Juliet as the sun. When Romeo is observing Juliet at her deathbed, he states, “For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light” (5.3 85-86) Even when Juliet is dead, Romeo proclaims that her beauty makes the vault full of light. Even when she is no longer alive, she is still the sun. Although people don’t consider death and beauty to be at all related, these two contradictions fit well together. Throughout all of these examples, Shakespeare represents that love and hate need each other to survive, just like the day and night, the light and dark, and the death and

This theme is not only represented in “Romeo and Juliet”, or other playwrights and stories that people read about online, but in their everyday life. Although Shakespeare makes the theme of love and hate dramatic and over the top in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare delivers the message of how love and hate can overpower and consume us, and if we aren’t careful, it can easily blow up and destroy everything. As Kurt Tucholsky once said, “Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.” The coexistence of love and hate was not something Romeo and Juliet could choose to embrace or avoid, it was simply