For someone to say that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is solitarily about love or hate is completely wrong. This play was clearly designed to express love and hate, which are two words on opposite ends of the literary world. This play takes two such opposites and uses them to clash and thrive off each other at the same time. The two main families are at war with each other and hate each other with a passion. The two families, Capulet and Montague have hated each other for generations. They have never come to agree with anything, and it seems like Verona is not big enough for the both of them. Will love over come hate in Verona, or will the two families be forever cursed with this hate?
Love and hate directly tie into the story of Romeo and Juliet for many reasons. You have two well-respected wealthy families who are urged and allegedly born into a strong hatred that seems unbreakable. No Capulet nor any Montague can fathom in their wildest occurrence that it is possible for one of their own to love each other. How are they to react at the situation at hand; or do they ever find out? Eventually
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