Prompts:

Loves power to transform (transform hate, transform one’s behaviour and thinking/
mood).
Cooperation and Opportunity (cooperation fosters opportunities for people

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for
construction and destruction.
Johnathan Haidt

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of
confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
Lester B. Pearson

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow
through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate. Love
George William Russel

Romeo and Juliet (Love’s power to transform):

Plan 1: Love transforms Romeo into a sad and depressed boy, but is further change into
a guy completely infatuated with Juliet.
1.“Ay me! Sad hours seem long.”Act 1 Scene 1 p 21, “I have a soul of lead, so stakes me to the
ground I cannot move. Act 1 Scene 4 p. 51. Romeo being sad after yearning for Rosaline, this
changes him into a sad, mopy boy.

1..”Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Act 1
Scene 5 p.69 Romeo transforms from a sad boy into a happy boy when he loves Juliet.

1.“But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” Act 2
Scene 1 p.87 Romeo changes his view on his loves, turns from dark and moon-like with
Rosaline to light and bright sun-like with Juliet.

2.“My only love Sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Act 1
Scene 5 p.71 Juliet realizes that Romeo is a Montague and feels her hate conflicted with her
love.

2.“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; So
Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that
title.” Act 2 Scene 2 p.89. Juliet’s love of Romeo changes her view on the Montagues as a
whole and makes her see that her love of Romeo prevails over her hate of the name.
“I do protest, I never injured thee, but love thee better than thou canst devise. Till thou shalt
know the reason of my love; and so, good Capulet—which name I tender as dearly as mine
own,— be satisfied.” Act 3 Scene 1 p.147

“Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear So soon forsaken?” Act 2 Scene 3 p.103. Direct
statement of Friar Lawrence saying how Romeo flipped the switch on Rosaline.
“In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your
households’ rancour to pure love” Act 2 Scene 3 p.103.

3.“I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, or manage it to part these men with me”
(Benvolio)
“What, drawn and talk of peace! I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee.” (Tybalt)
Act 1 Scene 1 p.17 Shows hate between Capulets and Montagues.

3.“O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more can I
demand. But I can give thee more;” (Capulet) “For I will raise her statue in pure gold; there shall
be no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet.” (Montague) Act 5 Scene 3.