Passion vs. Hate

Discuss how the motif  is seen throughout Romeo and Juliet.

The motif of passion vs. hate is seen throughtout the play to describe events and characters. It seems that everytime someone in the story is in love, some conflict occurs. For example, Paris confesses his love for Juliet in act 5, scene 3:
                     "O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet."

Although he implies that he loves Juliet, his love for her never mattered because she was in love with somebody else. Even though Paris always loved her, Juliet was never able to love him back. Another example passion vs. hate was a quote from Romeo in act 1 scene 1:
                    "Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
                     Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created!"

 Romeo states that his love for Rosaline both hateful and passionate as if they enjoyed fighting and not being together. The statement is almost saying that hate adds more to love, or bad things always happen when love is involved. Another example is the the death of Lady Montague. Montague states in act 5 scene 3:
                   "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight!
                   Grief of my son's exile has stopped her breath.".

This statement is one of the many examples of lives lost due to love and grief. All the characters in the story lost at least one friend or family member through either love and hate! Tybalt and Mercutio both died fighting over some unimportant and stupid conflict. Their deaths brought even more hatred between the Capulets and Montagues! Lastly, the death of Romeo and Juliet was due to passion. They killed themselves because of drama between the two families and accidental mistakes. Nobody's love was really able to be carried out because hate was in the way.