When Love and Hate Conquers… ‘Love and Hate’ is the best theme possible for the beautiful piece of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. W. Shakespeare wrote this piece to show what love can do to anyone and to show the inevitable effects of hate that might ruin a human life. Love is represented in the tale by the sacrifices as well as the sufferings of Romeo and Juliet, while Hate is signified by the feud between the Montague family and Capulet Family. The Story started when Romeo and Juliet’s eyes met; the two fell in love with each other that instant. “If I profane with my unworthiest hand: this holy Shrine.
The romantic love of Romeo and Juliet has become very popular and is the ideal example of star-crossed lovers. The love of family honor is what keeps these lovers apart: the feud between the Capulets and Montagues. The purpose of this essay is to provide examples of these two types of love, which will then be compared and contrasted. People should understand Romeo and Juliet, and further study its themes to build up a successful literature pathway. Romantic love is the most basic type, where two people have a mutual connection of love towards each other.
In “Romeo and Juliet”, love’s power of influence is a constant strength and source of courage. Throughout the play, the protagonists fight against the present society and counter their family’s wishes in order to follow their desires and make of two star crossed lovers one. They are both willing to abandon their names for each other “Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet”. This shows that love in Shakespearean literature overcomes and supersedes their reputation, loyalty towards their names and is basically the only key to happiness. This forcefulness of love becomes so strong and intense that it turns to violence and hatred for all obstacles blocking their reunion.
This suggests that her mind is unstable here because she plans to make sure that Macbeth ‘shall be what thou art promised.’ In other words, she is going to take control to make sure that the witches’ prophecies are fulfilled. It could be argued that Lady Macbeth decides to fulfil the prophecies because she loves her husband so intensely. Lady Macbeth uses very positive adjectives in this scene to describe her husband (‘great’, ‘worthy’, etc. ), in much the same way as Macbeth does in his letter to describe his wife (‘dearest partner of greatness’). They clearly have an extremely passionate relationship and Shakespeare portrays that Lady Macbeth is willing to do whatever it takes to assist her husband.
Ismene however, follows the rules, and goes by the law of Creon. Ismene is also afraid to die, while Antigone is not. Antigone plans for the future when she will eventually die, and she doesn’t want to suffer during her afterlife, whereas Ismene doesn’t really plan ahead and just lives her life following the rules. Antigone is more headstrong than Ismene in the sense that she will just follow her heart and she is determined to
|Macbeth's Relationship with Lady Macbeth | |[pic] | |In his letter to his wife about the witches' prophecies, Macbeth writes, "This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of | |greatness, that thou mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee"(1.5.10-13). He knows | |that his "partner" will like the idea of being Queen and seems to offer the news as a kind of present. | |Lady Macbeth does indeed like the
This is the similar to someone is over assured in their powers over others. When an individual is overconfident in their power over others, they will become trusting towards said person and lose that influence over them. This is highly evident when Lady Macbeth attempts to control her husband’s decisions. When Macbeth is acknowledged that he is capable of possessing such power, he lets Lady Macbeth know in a letter. Lady Macbeth quickly becomes consumed in her strive for superiority, and uses her power over her husband to gain the position of a King’s wife.
Shakespeare echoes key thematic topics by the production of a series of lies that form intro deception at crucial moments. When Hero and Ursula exit and leave Beatrice alone, Beatrice declares, “…Benedick, love on; I will requite thee, taming my wild heart to thy loving hand” (III. i. 117-118). Beatrice expresses her acceptance of Benedick’s love but does not realize the love inside Beatrice exists artificially.
Number 1: After Act 1, Scene 5 When Lady Macbeth reads the letter from Macbeth about the prophecies of him being king she is very confident that they will come true. Lady Macbeth also seems to feel as though Macbeth may not be able to go through with the process of becoming king. This is when Lady Macbeth feels she must help him through his task. Lady Macbeth yells out load that she wants the sprits to '' unsex'' her; which means that she wishes to be less like a women and more manly to go through with the task. I think Lady Macbeth is the type of person who will do anything to get what they want.
In the beginning of the play, after Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth of the witch’s prophecy, she grew attached to the idea of being queen. With the belief that her happiness will bring them the love he wishes to gain, he strives to do everything in his power to maintain his wife’s happiness. Macbeth decides that he is against Duncan’s murder, and tells his wife “I dare do all that may become a man; do what is expected of him, but no more. He will not go from man to monster by killing the king. But Lady Macbeth taunts him, “When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1:7:49), continually hinting at