answer:I don’t think I could bring myself to be pompous enough to tell you which, if either, emotion the writer of the piece based it on. If this is meant as a purely opinionated question, I can’t help you, I’m not big into opinions. I would say any answer is applicable, and likewise would agree that none of them are, a mere matter of which perspective I take, and I can take any that you have offered. And all of them assume that Romeo & Juliet was at all about love and/or hate versus simply having said emotions within the story, or driving the plot. Choosing a side seems simple minded to me. How about choosing to understand all the sides? Then simply pick one to satisfy your class/teacher/grade. I don’t lend folk psychology much validity, so the first things that come to mind are: emotions cannot be measured accurately in any objective manner, emotions are subjective by their nature and thus different for each individual, and is there any chance that love and hate are the same emotion only differentiated by the desired effect? Do I have one scale, love encompassing the upper portion, indifference in the middle, and hate encompassing the lower portion, such that my feeling is charted somewhere thereon? Do I have two scales, and could thus both love and hate a subject? If I hate someone because of the emotions they stir in me by their actions, do I love the idea of a world without them there to choose their actions? Perhaps I love the idea of simply removing their freedom of choice, but don’t have to admit that I could/would want someone dead. Perhaps I love the idea of administering some form of punishment. Or none of these. I have rarely encountered hatred without its counterpart. If you kill someone I don’t know, I will have little emotional reaction. Kill someone I love, and to what degree I love them may be directly proportional to the degree I hate you for taking them from me. Just some thoughts.