What are some examples of love triumphing over hate in Romeo & Juliet?
The main example is the feud between the two families and Romeo and Juliet refusing to acknowledge it because of their love for each other. Love and hate are intertwined throughout the story whenever both the main characters are involved, for example, Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin, a crime that would normally cause a person to hate the killer, but because of her feelings for Romeo, Juliet does not hate him, but instead brushes it aside as if Tybalt was nothing to her. Then ultimately in the end, the families reconcile, this may be because of the shared loss of Romeo and Juliet, but because their love for each other was so powerful, it led to their deaths, the families see the error of their ways and realise that it is there fault that the two are dead, due to the feud that was keeping them apart.
