... an idea that one cannot exist without the other, a balance in all things in nature, for instance, the correlative use of a light/dark polarity. Romeo and Juliet, dubbed as a romantic tragedy, is more about love than hate. Love, in its many forms, is an important theme in the play: the love not ... in Juliet's tomb in the final act. Even at the end, his final words were: "O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, / Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet."(V.iii. 72-73), conveying the love he felt for Juliet, yet the love is not returned. The familial love shared by Romeo with his parents and Juliet w...

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