Question

Romeo: Alas! that love, whose view is muffled still, Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will. 160 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 any thing! of nothing first create. 165 O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Mis-shapen 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? Which lines from the excerpt support the inference that Romeo is emotionally conflicted? Check all that apply.

Answer 1

The prt with the “loving hate” would make the most sense because those are both two complete opposite emotions.

Answer 2

• Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will: In this line, Romeo is talking like the love he feels is blind, but even so he is able to decide the ways of a lover how to please him.

• Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! : These lines show how romeo sees love as something contradictory, something that is good but bad; It is sweet, but it is bitter. This causes Romeo to be in conflict, because for him love causes horrible pain, but enormous happiness at the same time.

• Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! : Romeo shows that he is in conflict again in this line, when he says that chaos has neither form nor order; but for him chaos has an apparent form.