Act 1 Scene 1: Quote From Romeo

Scene 1.1

"Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,

Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!

Where shall we dine?—O me! What fray was here?

Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.

Here’s much to do with hate but more with love.

Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first created!O heavy lightness, serious vanity,Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!This love feel I, that feel no love in this.Dost thou not laugh?"  


Romeo arrives after the fight between the Montagues and Capulets.  The line, "Here's much to do with hate but more to do with love" shows that Romeo prefers to believe that the fight between the two families was done out of devotion/love instead of out of hate.  This alludes to Romeo's personality; he is a romantic with uncontrolled emotions who prefers not to fight.  Later, he explains to Benvolio that he is the subject of unreciprocated love.  Shakespeare uses oxymorons like "brawling love" and "loving hate" to describe Romeo's internal conflict and maybe to suggest that he does not understand his own emotions.