Love and Hate Romeo and Juliet Mindmap

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  • Love and Hate
    • Romeo and Juliet has lasted throughout the years as young love is still relevant and important
    • Benvolio is sceptical about love
      • he tells romeo to look elsewhere than Rosaline at the start
        • he believes he could be just as happy with someone else
    • Paris
      • he has the same view of love as elizabethan society
        • operated through Capulet as would have been normal in Elizabethan society
          • he still grieves for Juliet and calls her his one love
            • however this is formal compared to Romeo's grief
      • he knows little of love
        • tells Juliet "I am sure that you love me"
    • The Nurse
      • she has a shallower view of love
        • interested mainly in physical appearence
          • sexual love
            • she's happy to arrange the wedding night
            • "Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days"
        • she doesn't seem to care if Juliet commits bigamy with Paris and tries to persuade her
          • this could be an attempt to make things easier for Juliet
      • The Nurse does love Juliet and will do anything for her
    • Lord and Lady Capulet
      • they value material things - status and power - more than love
        • they think marriage for a women is only for status and power
          • Lord Capulet assumes Juliet will be happy with Paris as it will increase her status
            • because of this, he doesn't consult her
            • at the start he does want Paris to woo her and for Juliet to want to marry him but this changes by the end of the play
      • They do have parental love for Juliet
        • They grieve a lot when she dies
    • There is hate between the Montagues and Capulets
      • Lady Capulet wants Tybalt's death to be avenged
        • "For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague"
        • She calls Romeo a "villain" and "traitor murderer"
      • from the servants to the lords
      • Benvolio tries to the stop the feud
        • The Prince and the Friar both want to end the feud
          • The Friar hopes that their marriage will end it
            • "to turn your households rancour to pure love"
          • The Prince threatens death to anyone who fights anymore
        • Even Lord Capulet doesn't let Tybalt fight Romeo at the party
      • Even Romeo is tired of the fighting
      • Tybalt hates the Montagues the most
        • "to strike him dead I hold it not a sin" about Romeo
        • "what, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee"
    • the Friar has a fear of love that's too hasty or passionate
      • "These violent delights have violent ends"
    • Lord and Lady Montague have parental love for Romeo
      • they are upset by his depression at the start of the play
      • Lady Montague dies of grief at Romeo's exile

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