Also this quote mentions the notion of God, King, Father, "Fit fancies to your father's will." In this notion women have little power if their father and even less if the Duke thinks differently than you. In the court, the women understand their place within the Duke's court. After Theseus and Hippolyta, finish discussing their upcoming wedding and Egeus, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius enter the court, Hippolyta is still present, but does not say a word, because she was not spoken too. Also, during Egeus' explanation of the situation to the Duke, Hermia does not interrupt even if she does not agree with what is being said. The court is a place of control and order and this is what it symbolizes: control and order.

After the curtain closes at the end of scene 1 and the crew readies the set for Act 2, the curtain opens to reveal the woods and a fairy. With four different plot lines, Theseus and Hippolyta, Young Lovers, the Rude Mechanicals, and the Fairies, the reader realizes they will meet at some point. At the end of Act 1 Scene 1 Hermia and Lysander make plans to run into the forest, "If thou lovest me, then steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night, and in the wood a league without the town, there I will stay for thee." Lysander tells Helena about this plan and Helena, trying to win Demetrius' heart tells him the plan and he is eager to follow into the woods. The last scene of Act 1, Scene 2, the Rude Mechanicals make plans to rehearse in the woods.

The fairies live and quarrel in the woods, which makes three out of four plot lines heading into the woods. The woods are a place of dangers and peril, "You do impeach your modesty too much to leave the city and commit yourself into the hands of one that loves you not, to trust the opportunity of night and the ill counsel of a desert place." Also with the parallels between Hermia and Lysander and Pyramus and Thisbe, the reader can tell that beasts lurk in the woods. The woods symbolize the opposite of the court: chaos.

Love in Romeo and Juliet is a thing defined by contradictions and other emotions. Romeo's definition of love is offered to Benvolio early in the play:

Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create! 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 (1.1, 180-7).

The love that Romeo is feeling is not of Juliet but of Rosaline and he is talking about how his love of her is pain to him. Throughout the play of Romeo and Juliet love is talked about just as Romeo has defined it: as a paradox.

The most obvious case of love in Romeo and Juliet is between Romeo and Juliet. Their passionate love causes them to create a plan to keep them together after the banishment of Romeo, which leads to the death of both lovers. Since they had to be together at all costs Juliet was willing to take a poison to create the effect of death to everyone and then run away with Romeo after waking. It is a brilliant plan except the fact that Romeo does not know what is going on. Juliet's need for Romeo causes her to go along with this plan and creates the situation where the lover's deaths play out.

While Romeo sits in Juliet's tomb morning over his loss, his love takes over and makes him blind. His love causes him to make decisions irrationally and commit suicide when he has much life still to live. Juliet's love for Romeo also blinds her after she wakes up to her Romeo lying limp and lifeless next in the tomb also. Her love and need for him leads her to believe that there is nothing left for her and she also kills herself. The love Romeo and Juliet feel each other leads to there downfall, because it does not let them assess the situation rationally leading to overreactions.

Another form love appears in during Romeo and Juliet is family pride. In act 3 scene 1, family pride emerges as the cause for two deaths and their repercussions. Tybalt, the hot headed Capulet, and Mercutio, the hot headed Montague, clash and only Tybalt walks away as family pride causes them to fight for families. After Mercutio, a good friend of Romeo, is killed Romeo wants revenge. Unfortunately he gets his revenge, by killing Tybalt, which leads to his banishment. Capulet, seeing Juliet's sadness “due to the fact of Tybalt's death,” offers Paris Juliet's hand in marriage leading to her need for a get away plan and ultimately the deaths of Romeo and Juliet's death. Love, which also takes shape as family pride, causes the death of Mercutio and the proceedings that lead up to the lover's deaths.

A cause of love that takes form as family pride is the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. The play never mentions how the feud started, which makes it seem as if the feud has been there forever. Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, were forbidden to love each other openly due to the hatred caused between the families. If the feud was non-existent there, would be no reason for Romeo and Juliet to be hiding their love from everybody and no reason for the extremes measure taken that lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound”(1.4.17-8).

“I am too sore enpierced with his shaft to soar with his light feathers, and so bound I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. Under love's heavy burden do I sink”(1.4.19-22).