Essay On Love And Hate In Romeo And Juliet

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Love is always stronger than hate. In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare clearly shows that love is more powerful than hate because love has the power to change a human heart. Shakespeare argues that how a person faces the problems they encounter impacts their ability to accept the positive change love has to offer through the characters of Romeo, Juliet and Mercutio.

The impact of love on Juliet is negative because her over-emotionality results in disobedient actions. Juliet shows how she is disobedient when she chooses to love her families’ enemy the only son of the Montague and she denies her parents, Paris as a suitor. Juliet says, “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seem unknown, and known too late! Prodigious
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When Romeo says he had a dream about love it upsets Mercutio because he doesn’t believe in love he thinks a little fairy goes up their nose and makes them dream. She is the fairies ' midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an alderman, drawn with a team of little atomi over men’s noses as they lie asleep. She is the fairies ' midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an alderman, drawn with a team of little atomi over men’s noses, as they lie asleep. Mercutio denies love whenever Romeo or someone else talks about love because he doesn’t believe in love he thinks all loves stems from hate and that its also a coincidence that Romeo always falls in love easily and Mercutio hates love and thinks its fake and a waste of time. Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out. Mercutio acts out hate instead of love when he tries to protect Romeo with honor and not safety and puts his life on the line. Mercutio wants to fight Tybalt because he wanted to fight Romeo and says he wants to take “1 of his nine lives” because he is the king of cats. After Mercutio

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