Opposites

**__Recurring Themes and Images Opposites__** //Write about Shakespeare's use of opposites that don't already appear here.//

__General Meanings__ Multiple Characters in this play are clearly shown as opposites. Benvolio is a peaceful person that dislikes fighting while Tybalt is a fiery characters that always starts fights. Then there are the Capulets and Montagues, the rival families. Also, the love of Romeo and Juliet is an opposite because love sprung from the families' hate.-Tommy

There are also characters in this play that act so differently at different times that they are often opposites of themselves. For instance, Romeo wants nothing more than to get up the balcony and into Juliet's room in Scene 2 of Act II, but then keeps trying to escape from Juliet's room in 3.5. After he gets what he wants, his behavior changes significantly. Juliet also has moments like this. Like in Scene 2 of Act III, when she is cursing Romeo's name and saying she hates them, and then turns around and starts defending him before the Nurse. -Dean

When Romeo comes to the Capulet's tomb, He finds paris weeping. Paris assumes that romeo is come to disgrace the capulets after two of them had died in the last week. In reality Romeo had come to kill himself alongside Juliet. That is why they fought and Paris ended up dead. (Zander)

__Quote Collection__ "My only love sprung from my only hate" (Juliet: 1.5.137)-Tommy "The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb; what is her burying grave, that is her womb" (Friar Lawrence: 2.3.9-10.)-Tommy "Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health..." (Romeo: 1.1 171)- Dean

Tybalt Benvolio