The tragic comedy "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, is a love story between Romeo, the young heir of the Montague, and Juliet, the only surviving daughter of the Capulet's house. This story of the young "star-crossed" lovers is a remarkable work in which Shakespeare uses a variety of verbal imagery including; contrasts between sex and love with hate, conflict and death, comparisons between romantic and non-romantic views of love, the correlative use of light and dark polarity, and the correlation between fate and luck. By using this type of imagery, TJ Spencer suggests, "in the play's most important moment Shakespeare also subjects the ambiguities of the words to the sublimity and pathos of the situation" (43). At the beginning of the play, Shakespeare immediately introduces one of the play's major themes, the paradoxical conflation of sex and love with hate, conflict, and death. This is first shown in the obscene argument between the servants of the two houses as they use references such as "tool" and "naked weapon", along with repeated images of blows and blows. Although Romeo and Juliet try to separate themselves from the "ancient grudge" and stupid arguments between their families, the couple cannot escape the repercussions of the feud, which ultimately inflicts a mortal wound on their love. Shakespeare repeatedly illustrates how closely images of love and sex are intertwined with violence and death, as when Romeo first explains his ideas about love to Mercutio. He describes love as a battlefield using military terms to illustrate the ways in which he used his eyes and words of love in a combined attack to win Rosaline's affection: "She will not resist the siege of terms loving, / Nor will wait for the meeting of aggressive eyes” (1.1.212-13). Juliet concisely expresses the link between love and hate and marriage and death: “My only love, sprung from my only hate!” 138).She also quickly declares that if she cannot marry Romeo, she would rather die: "If he were married, / My grave shall be as my bridal bed" (1.5.134-35). repeats throughout the play to maintain an atmosphere of impending tragedy. The contrasting images of love and violence ominously anticipate the conclusion of the play in which the death of Romeo and Juliet ends the feud between the two families...