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Contradictions
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Act 1,
Scene 1
Lines 169-178

Romeo is bewildered by the contradictions in life of love, hate, and passion in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1.

Romeo

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.

Romeo is bewildered by the contradictory nature of life, particularly where love, hate, and strong passions are concerned. How can all these opposing emotions exist all at once, sometimes in the same person?  Romeo ends with the simple line “Dost thou not laugh?”, which captures both his despair and the absurdity of his love for a woman who shuns him.