Hate Flashcards
What, drawn, and talk of peace!
I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee
The list of 3 emphasises his hatred as well as the comparison of Montagues to the devil
You men, you beasts
The Prince calls all the brawlers ‘beasts’ to emphasise how hate has caused them to act irrational and impulsively like savage animals.
O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create!
The oxymoron of love and hate suggests that they are 2 sides of the same coin. The phrase ‘anything of nothing first create’, perhaps suggests that both love and hate come of nothing and are therefore pointless and futile.
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which but their children’s end, nought could remove
The entire story centres around the hatred between the Capulets and the Montagues and how through only the deaths of their two children did it come to an eventual end
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
In the final scene, the Prince chastises Capulet and Montague, holding them responsible for the deaths of their kinsmen, which all resulted from the evil feud. Hate is juxtaposed by the love that Romeo and Juliet had for each other which killed them
Hang! Beg! Starve! Die in the streets!
An impatient Capulet shows his disgust and anger at his daughter’s refusal to marry Paris, hurling insults and threats. He believes that her refusal reflects a lack of appreciation and gratitude towards him for all he has done for her. This is emphasised by the asyndetic listing of harsh verbs and semantic field of death
Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford
No better term than this: thou art a villain
Tybalt voices his hatred for Romeo when they meet on the streets of Verona, emphasised by calling him a ‘villain’. There is a certain irony as, at this point, Romeo and Juliet were now wed, so Romeo and Tybalt are technically related through marriage
For this alliance may so happy prove,
To turn your households’ rancour to pure love
The Friar agrees to Romeo’s request to marry him and Juliet as he hopes their union will end the feud. However, in light of the tragic events that follow, his hasty decision could perhaps be seen as reckless and misguided.
My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love
Romeo foreshadows his own death in the balcony scene. He refuses to be frightened by the prospective arrival of Juliet’s kinsmen, as he tells her that he would prefer to be killed by the Capulet’s hate than have to live a life without Juliet’s love. He believes his love will protect him.
In penalty alike, and tis not hard, I think,
For men so old as we to keep the peace
The feud is shown to be much more important and personified for the younger generation than it is for the older generation.
