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Explain how the idea of antithesis is central to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
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Dan Chudley Explain how the idea of antithesis is central to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet In this essay I am going to look at how antitheses are a big part and how they are central to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. There are many antitheses and oxymorons in the play and I will be examining how they are used and how they drive the play on, entertaining and involving the audience. There are so many examples of opposites in the play, covering language, characters, scenes and backgrounds, focusing in the main on the central theme throughout the play of love and hate. The first and main opposite we encounter in the play is love and hate, in act 1 scene 1 although a trace of all the opposites are always present throughout the play. "my only love sprung from my only hate." Romeo is miserable because of all the people in the world; he has...
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