Love and hate are both very strong emotions that many people have for one another. Love and Hate are the two emotions that are opposite to each other. The meaning of love is a strong feeling of affection or a great interest or pleasure in something. Hate on the other hand means to have an intense dislike to something. The two writers that are going to be explored are William Shakespeare (with Julius Caesar) and Robert Browning (with Porphyria’s Lover, The Laboratory, A woman’s last word and Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister).

In Julius Caesar Shakespeare shows love as an untrustworthy type of thing. A part where William Shakespeare shows that love is untrustworthy is in Act 3 Scene 1 when the great Julius Caesar gets brutally stabbed by his ‘trusted’ companions. Caesar had seemed shocked by the people who had stabbed him. One person Caesar thought would never stab him is his best friend, Brutus. Just before Brutus stabs him he say ”Et tu, Brute?”, which means ”and you to, Brutus?”. This demonstrates his shock as he loved Brutus so much and he didn’t think he would of betrayed him like that. There are two suggestions why Julius Caesar used another language for his final words in the whole play. One of them is because he might be saying it so only Brutus could understand what was said. Another reason is that he was so shocked that he started talking back to his original language (because Latin was the language of Rome).

Another place in the play where love could be found is in Act 3 Scene 2. This Scene is the scene of the great Julius Caesar’s Funeral. Brutus and Anthony both make a Eulogy towards Caesar at the Funeral. In Brutus’s Eulogy he says  ”it is not that I love Caesar less, but that I love Rome more”. Here Brutus is telling us that he pretty much has loved Rome more than Caesar the whole time, Brutus is trying to tell the people of Rome that he will protect them and not let Caesars death be a distraction to making Rome a stronger city.

Hate is shown all over the play Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar was hated by his trusted and loved ‘friends’ but Caesar never knew that the whole time they were planning to kill him and take over all over Rome.

Julius Caesar is similar to Porhyia’s lover because both victims in both plays were killed by their so called loved ones.

In one of Robert Browning’s poems ‘The laboratory-Ancien Regime’ it shows a lot of hate towards lovers. This poem is about a woman who finds out that her lover is cheating on her with another woman. She (the narrator) has made up her mind that she is going to kill herself after killing her lovers other lover. One place where she shows hate is when she says ”Let death be felt and the proof remain”. The woman wants the other woman who is dating her lover to feel the pain that the poison she creates gives and not to cover up her body and the proof of her death. It shows in the poem that she hates him so much that he wants to take everything he loves away from him.

In porphyria’s lover there is a man narrating the poem about a woman that he loved. He describes her features in the play and describes how much he loves her but decides to strangle her at the end of the whole poem. In This poem we can identify that this man is insanely in love with this women. I belive that the woman is already dead before the poem even begins. The reason for this is because when he says “I wairly open her lids: again”, wairly means carefully which means that he most probably is trying to keep her dead body at peace because of the amount of love he has for her. “She shut the cold out and the storm”, He explains how when she enters the room she changes the whole atmosphere in the room when she walks in. In this poem you can see that the love between the man and the woman was unstable by one of them being killed, and the person still being able to love them as much as they did before she died.

In the poem ‘A Womans Last Word’ i belive that this is being said just before the woman is about to go into an intimate moment with her lover. “And so fall asleep, Love, Loved by thee”, this supports the point of her talking about having an intimate moment with her lover. “Be a god and hold me wiyh a charm!”. Being a god would mean that to love a persom and hope to look over you and protect you while having a relationship with the person.

This is how love and hate is presented in both Robert Browning’s poems and William Shakespeares Play.