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Question: How does Shakespeare contrast the love and hatred in Act 1 Scene V of Romeo & Juliet!?
no one answered my previous question, so i thought i would post it again with a different title :)
for my first draft of my coursework i have to write the answer to this question:
"How does Shakespeare contrast the love and hatred in Act 1 Scene V of Romeo & Juliet"
we can't really write something like "because romeo is mean to tybalt and in love with juliet" like that sort of stuff, we have to say how Shakespeare uses the language of the characters, and how he achieves the contrast of love and hate!.
Furthermore, we should say what the subject and theme of the whole play is, which is what excatly!?
So does anyone have any tips on what to write!?
also, i'm not sure how to start and end it!. I think i may start with how Shakespeare came up with the idea on writing Romeo and Juliet, and how he got the idea from a poem by Arthur Brooke, what do you think and how should i end it!?
thanks in advance
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I think the question is flawed!. There is no love in R&J, only lust!.
Oh, I know!. "The greatest love story ever told!" But I insist that the people who say that are ignorant about mature love!. Consider:
Romeo starts out unable to live without his true, eternal love--Rosalind!. But she's forgotten when he first sets eye on Juliet!. D'you think that, given more than three or four days, his eye would have lit on some other young beauty--and considering his impulsiveness, would he have resisted the temptation!?
Juliet is 13 years old!. Yes, I know that women in her time married and bore children at that age!. But that doesn't mean that they were fully mature; she's responding to her first crush!.
Nobody in the play loves anybody (except maybe Romeo's parents--we don't get to know them as well)!. All of the Montagues and Capulets are drunk with the lust for power!. Friar Laurence doesn't love Jesus, he loved herbalism and magic and political influence and a lot of stuff that isn't appropriate for clergy (it's not wrong to play the Friar as a cleric who'd violated his vows for pleasures of the flesh as well)!.
I don't think the Capulets and Montagues actually hate one another--well, Tybalt excepted--they're just willing to use violence and threats to try to satisfy their lusts for power!.
So if I were writing the paper, I'd argue against the basic premise that the teacher provided!. Depending on the teacher, that would yield an A+ for exceptionally original thinking supported by a careful study of the text--or a very low mark for not agreeing with her/his prejudices!. :-)Www@QuestionHome@Com
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sorry babes, have never read romeo and juilet so i cant help you
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