In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, it is contended most that hate is a force more indomitable and pervasive than the simple powers of love. In the majority of the text’s cases, there is constant depiction of hate and the magnitude of which it outstrips love. The spiteful instances of Tybalt’s contempt for Romeo, the young Montague’s resultant exile, in addition to the general Montague and Capulet opposition – that of which hinders the “star-crossed lovers” from their romance, present a multitude of factors that support the case of hostility outdoing humanity. Albeit, the final moments of the play exhibit a similar perception to the topic, in which the strength of Romeo and Juliet’s devotion for each other finally brings the feuding households
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Given the passion, struggle, and passing of the couple ceased the Montague and Capulet discord, Shakespeare is perhaps pronouncing an alternative judgement where tenderness bears an equal potential to that of hostility – much like the idea of, “Virtue itself turns vice” Shakespeare had wrote Friar to explore in the soliloquy of Act 2 Scene 3. In Act 5 Scene 3, the inevitable takes place – the “ill-fated… children’s end”. As Romeo and Juliet lie in an eternal rest, the remaining characters of the text, of which are still living, arrive on the scene and begin to comprehend the matters of all recent catastrophe. When Friar Laurence delivers his “tedious tale” of the young lovers, thereafter does the Prince of Verona assume to berate Lords Montague and Capulet for their own damage; “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate…” Following this brief tirade, both Capulet and Montague come to terms with their actions and finally restore a “glooming peace” for the community of Verona. Through the suicides of the young couple, two suicides committed with the intent of immortalising love, the romance between Romeo and Juliet triumphs in restoring balance for all of “fair Verona”. Provided that their love was eliciting such a response, this final sequence of the play clarifies that love was, as a matter of fact, able to overcome hatred once and for
Given the passion, struggle, and passing of the couple ceased the Montague and Capulet discord, Shakespeare is perhaps pronouncing an alternative judgement where tenderness bears an equal potential to that of hostility – much like the idea of, “Virtue itself turns vice” Shakespeare had wrote Friar to explore in the soliloquy of Act 2 Scene 3. In Act 5 Scene 3, the inevitable takes place – the “ill-fated… children’s end”. As Romeo and Juliet lie in an eternal rest, the remaining characters of the text, of which are still living, arrive on the scene and begin to comprehend the matters of all recent catastrophe. When Friar Laurence delivers his “tedious tale” of the young lovers, thereafter does the Prince of Verona assume to berate Lords Montague and Capulet for their own damage; “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate…” Following this brief tirade, both Capulet and Montague come to terms with their actions and finally restore a “glooming peace” for the community of Verona. Through the suicides of the young couple, two suicides committed with the intent of immortalising love, the romance between Romeo and Juliet triumphs in restoring balance for all of “fair Verona”. Provided that their love was eliciting such a response, this final sequence of the play clarifies that love was, as a matter of fact, able to overcome hatred once and for