The play
highlights the contrast between the loveshare and the hate between their two families.andare not
supposed to love each other but they do.
Important examples of this contrast
emerge when Romeo kills . Hate, Romeo thinks, makes him tough and valiantif he had not tried to
show love for Tybalt, his new cousin, he would have better protected , and Mercutio might still
be alive. Romeo is in anguish, believing his love for Juliet has made him, in contrast to what
he once was, effeminate. He states:
Tybalt, that an
hour
Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made me
effeminate
And in my temper soften'd valor's steel!
Juliet, too, is torn between love and hate as she learns that her beloved cousin Tybalt
has been killed and that her beloved husband Romeo is responsible for the killing. At first, she
is angry at Romeo and curses him in terms that show the contrast between the love and the hate
raging in her heart:
O serpent heart hid with a
flowering face!Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!Dove-feathered raven,
wolvish-ravening lamb!Despis¨d substance of divinest show,
Just opposite to what thou justly seemst.
But then she comes to her senses and says:Oh, what a
beast was I to chide at him!She realizes that if Romeo
had not killed Tybalt, Tybalt would have killed him.We see here the kind of
suffering hate causes. This will contrast with the love Romeo and Juliet will share together
soon afterthat very nightas husband and wife.
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