Theme Of Hate In Romeo And Juliet

William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet in 1594 but it was originally published in 1597. In the play Romeo and Juliet, the massive rivalry between the Montague and Capulet families causes horrific results for Romeo and Juliet’s star-crossed love. Throughout the play, fate throws the two teenagers into a deep love for each other, hate between the two families tear them apart and they reunite in death. The themes that will be discussed are love and hate as they both describe the passion and pain that these lovers went through to marry each other. These will be looked at by analysing monologues and soliloquies. A monologue is a long speech by one actor in a play or film, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast programme whereas a soliloquy …show more content…
The Prince’s monologue is when the Montague’s and Capulets open the scene up with a brawl on the streets of Verona between servants from the different households. While attempting to stop the fight, Benvolio who is Romeo’s cousin, is drawn into the fight by Tybalt, who is a relative of the Capulets. The fight rapidly escalates as more citizens become involved and soon the heads of both households appear on the scene. At last, Prince Escalus arrives and stops the riot, forbidding any further outbreaks of violence on pain of death by delivering his monologue. This monologue is a blank verse because it does not have any rhyme in the verses. This monologue contains lots of personification, metaphor, imagery, emotive language and foreshadowing. Imagery is evident in the lines ‘Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,”, this is because peace can’t literally have enemies / he is saying that they are threatening the peace of Verona, if they weren’t fighting Verona would be peaceful. Metaphor is present in the line “What, ho! You men, you beasts,”, he refers to them as beasts as they keep fighting with each other. In the line, “With purple fountains issuing from your veins,” this is imagery because it means streams of blood. Emotive language is clear in the line, “And hear the sentence of your moved prince. “Which means angry- he is angry that they are fighting. Also foreshadowing is present in the line, “If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.” warning them not to fight – the punishment for future fighting would be

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