William Shakespeare is known as one of the greatest writers of all time. The document focuses on six of Shakespeare's works that explore themes of love and hate: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, All's Well That Ends Well, A Lover's Complaint, and Othello. Each work examines how love can inspire passion but also jealousy, grief and pain, and how love can turn to hate with tragic consequences. While Shakespeare's personal feelings that inspired these works remain a mystery, his exploration of the human condition through themes of love and hate is why he is still considered one of the greatest writers.

4. Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a way of how one could lust over another even if they are not loved back. This comedy involves lots of fun and magic and the end results in happy couples.

6. Shakespeare wrote this comedy filled with lust and trickery. The moral of the story was you can’t make someone love you the way you want, but once you think you are getting away with something; its actually you that’s been pawned.

7. In this poem a young lady writes about the extreme pain and hurt inflicted upon her by the man she loves. She speaks of his charm and in spite of the way he has treated her, she confesses that she would still go back to him. Shakespeare expresses how one could be blinded by love in this work.

8. When Othello finds out his love, his wife has been unfaithful it sends him on a jealous rage that causes him to hate the ones he loves the most. Death is the end result. Shakespeare expresses how love could easily turn into hate and jealousy. And how the hate and jealousy of another could destroy you. The moral of the story is to believe half of what you see and knew of what you hear.

9. Because of Shakespeare's common themes of love, hate, lust, and jealousy in his works amongst many other things, many wonder what fueled him to write about these situations. … No one knows if the feelings portrayed in his works is how he really felt… This will forever be a mystery..but Shakespeare will continue to live on as one of the greatest writers of all time.