shakespeares themes of love & hate
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Research Assignment Rebeka Pacheco Professor Owens English 1102 ~ Term 3/09 February 19, 2009TRANSCRIPT
~~~~IN ROMEO & JULIET~~~~
Rebeka PachecoProfessor Owens
English 1102 ~ T3/09February 19, 2009
William Shakespeare’s Comedies:
•The Comedy of Errors•The Taming of the Shrew•The Two Gentlemen of Verona•Love’s Labor’s Lost•A Midsummer Night’s Dream•The Merchant of Venice•The Merry wives of Windsor•Much Ado about Nothing•As You Like It•Twelfth Night, or What You Will•The History of Troilus & Cressida•All’s Well That Ends Well•Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare’s Histories:The 1st Part of Henry the Sixth
The 2nd Part of Henry the Sixth
The 3rd Part of Henry the Sixth
The Tragedy of Richard the 3rd
The Life & Death of King John
The 1st Part of Henry the Fourth
The 2nd Part of Henry the Fourth
The Life of Henry the Fifth
The Famous History of the Life of Henry the Eighth
William Shakespeare’sRomances:
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Cymbeline
The Winter’s Tale
The Tempest
The Two Noble Kinsmen
William Shakespeare’sPoems:
Venus & Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
Sonnets
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix & Turtle
William Shakespeare’s Tragedies:The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
The Tragedy of King Lear
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tragedy of Antony & Cleopatra
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The Life of Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare:
o A world renowned playwright, poet, and actor in London.
oBorn in Stratford-upon-Avon.
oBaptized on April 26, 1564.
oProduced the majority of his works between 1590 & 1613.
oDied on April 23, 1616.
In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” the emotions of love and hate are ever present, and cannot be encased by definitions or restrained by literary meanings. During the play, these powerful emotions transpire without warning. The simple emotions presented during the play consist of passion, indifference, spiritual & physical closeness, anger, pride, sadness, courage, and happiness; however, when these emotions cross one another; they either blossom into love or erupt into hatred.
Ultimately, the “star crossed” lovers are destined to fail; their love for one another leads to the untimely death (by suicide) of both. It was in death that they could finally find the peace they needed to be together. In sacrificing their lives for love’s sake, Romeo and Juliet prove that love has the capacity to conquer both hatred and death. It establishes a certainty that love cannot be limited by boundaries (especially hatred).The play is a classic example of the thin line that adjoins love to hate. Nevertheless, the play’s main theme is focused upon how love has the ability to trample hatred; triumphing over it.
“Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die” (5.3. 169-170)