Detest

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Detest
Despise
Abhor
Loathe
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Bred of an airy word
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Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O
anything of nothing first create! ,,, Mis-shapen
chaos of well-seeming forms!
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Who fight can lose who doesnt has already
lost!
(from a neo-nazi website)
Turn thee, Benvolio, and look upon thy
death Peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell,
all Montagues, and thee
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THE POWER OF HATE
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HATE

• Intense animosity or dislike hatred
• To dislike, despise, abhor, loathe
• the emotion of hate
• a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands
  action

Each of these is readily seen in the attitudes,
words, and actions of the characters in Romeo and
Juliet
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What Causes HATE?

• Past Experience of Conflict
• Differences in Opinion, Values, or Culture
• DIFFERENCES
• Jealousy
• Societal Influence
• Family Influence

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Youve Got To Be Taught
You've got to be taughtTo hate and fear,You've
got to be taughtFrom year to year,It's got to
be drummedIn your dear little earYou've got to
be carefully taught.You've got to be taught to
be afraidOf people whose eyes are oddly
made,And people whose skin is a diff'rent
shade,You've got to be carefully taught.You've
got to be taught before it's too late,Before you
are six or seven or eight,To hate all the people
your relatives hate,You've got to be carefully
taught!
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What does HATE make people do?

• Experience Frustration
• Make Foolish Choices
• Make Foolish Assumptions
• Provoke Further Conflict
• Provoke Anger
• React in Fear and Desperation
• Act on Impulse
• Act in Haste
• Act in Violence
• Cause Great Pain

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Act I
Prodigious birth of love it is to me That I must
love a loathed enemy
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• Two households.
  From ancient grudge break to new
  mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands
  unclean
• The fearful passage of their death-marked love,
  And the continuance of their parents rage,
  Which, but their childrens end naught could
  remove

hatred bounces
e.e. cummings
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• Is Easily Provoked, and Readily Provokes
• Scene 1
• Gregory and Sampson
• I strike quickly, being moved
• Let us take the law of our sides let them
  begin
• No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but
  I bite my thumb, sir
• Tybalt
• What, art thou drawn among these heartless
  hinds?
• Turn thee Benvolio look upon thy death.
• What, drawn and talk of peace? I have the word
• As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.

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• Causes Frustration and Confusion
• Romeo
• O me! What fray was here?
• Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all,
• Heres much to do with hate, but more with love,
• Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
• O anything of nothing first create!
• O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
• Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms

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• Causes Fear and Foolish Choices
• Scene 4
• Romeo
• I fear too early, for my mind misgives
• Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
• Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
• With this nights revels, and expire the term
• Of a despised life closed in my breast
• By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
• But he that hath the steerage of my course
• Direct my sail

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• Makes Foolish Assumptions
• Provokes Further Trouble
• Provokes Anger and Further Conflict
• Scene 5
• Tybalt
• This, by his voice, should be a Montague
• Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
• Come hither covered with an antic face
• To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
• Now by the stock and honor of my kin,
• To strike him dead I hold it not a sin,,,
• Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,
• A villain that is hither come in spite

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• Scene 5 (Contd.)
• Tybalt
• Ill not endure him
• Patience perforce with willful choler meeting
• Makes my flesh tremble in their different
  greeting.
• I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,
• Now seeming sweet, convert to bittrest gall

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• Causes Great Pain
• Scene 5
• Romeo
• Is she a Capulet?
• O dear account? My life is my foes debt.
• (Benvolio Away, begone. The sport is at the
  best.
• Ay, so I fear. The more is my unrest.
• Juliet
• My only love sprung from my only hate!
• Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
• Prodigious birth of love it is to me
• That I must love a loathed enemy.

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ACT I I
But passion gives them power
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• Causes Fear and Desperate Actions
• Scene 2
• Juliet
• O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore are thou Romeo?
• Deny thy father and refuse thy
  name,
• Or, if thou wilt not, be but
  sworn my love,
• And Ill no longer be a
  Capulet.
• The place death, considering who thou art
• If they do see thee, they will murder
  thee
• Romeo
• My life were better ended by their hate
• Than death prorogued, wanting of their
  love

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• Provokes Further Trouble
• BENVOLIO Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet,
• Hath sent a letter to his fathers
  house. MERCUTIO A challenge, on my life.
• BENVOLIO Romeo will answer it.

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• Causes Impulsive and Hasty Actions

• FRIAR LAWRENCE So smile the heavens upon
  this holy act
• That after-hours with sorrow
  chide us not.
• ROMEO Amen,, amen. But
  come what sorrow can,
• It cannot countervail the
  exchange of joy
• That one short minute gives me
  in her sight.
• Do thou but close our hands
  with holy words
• Then love-devouring death do
  what he dare
• FRIAR LAWRENCE These
  violent delights have
  violent ends
• And in their triumph die, like
  fire and powder,
• Which, as they kiss, consume

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ACT I I I
And now these hot days is the mad
blood stirring.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart
George Gordon,
Lord Byron
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• ACT IV

Myself have power to die
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• Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the
  world without having an effect on the rest of
  it. Eleanor Roosevelt

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ACT V
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
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• CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
• The ancient grudge explodes again in the fray
  of the opening scene. Tybalts deliberate rage
  and insistent hatred for the Montagues,
  especially Romeo, begin a progression of events
  that lead, ultimately, to death.

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• HATRED
• Causes the Characters to
• Experience Frustration
• Benvolio is frustrated by the intentional
  violence provoked by the Capulet servants, and by
  Tybalts refusal to stop the fight. He
  eventually joins the conflict.
• Romeo is frustrated by the continued conflict.
  He doesnt understand why family loyalty
  necessitates violence and hatred Mis-shapen
  chaos of well-seeming forms
• Make Foolish Choices
• Romeo foolishly decides to go to the Capulet
  party, in spite of the danger. He knows he
  should not go, but chooses to do so anyway.
  Sometimes hatred makes us disregard potential
  dangers.
• Make Foolish Assumptions
• Tybalt wrongly assumes that Romeo is there to
  cause trouble. He tries to start a fight at the
  Capulet feast, but eventually lets it go,
  promising vengeance at a later time

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• Provoke Further Conflict
• Tybalt sends a letter of challenge to Romeo, and
  pursues
• him later that day.
• Mercutio attempts to intervene, and himself tries
  to provoke
• Tybalt to fight
• Provoke Anger
• When Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo joins the ranks
  of those who CHOOSE hatred and violence.
  Mercutios death and Tybalts deliberate
  provocation cause him to embrace fire-eyed
  fury.
• The end result is Tybalts death and his own
  banishment.
• React in Fear and Desperation
• To avoid marriage to Paris, Juliet first
  threatens suicide, Then she follows the Friars
  desperate plan to fake her own death, and await
  Romeo in the family tomb.

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• Act on Impulse
• Act in Haste
• Act in Violence
• Cause Great Pain

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• Had the feud never existed, and had the
  characters not consistently chosen to act in
  hatred and violence, the events of this tragedy
  would not have occurred as they did.

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• Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies
  violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a
  descending spiral of destruction....The chain
  reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars
  producing more wars -- must be broken, or we
  shall be plunged into the dark abyss of
  annihilation. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• For never was a story of more woe
• Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.