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Both of these passages show Romeo and Juliet thinking rationally but later suddenly acting on irrational emotion.

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In this part of the play, Romeo says he will always love and weep for Rosaline, but later he contradicts his words and falls for Juliet. In the same way he gives his word not to hurt his in laws because he "loves" them. Later, however, he turns on Tybalt to kill him.

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This quote gives a long list of horrid things that could go wrong with the Friar's plan. This is a short time for Juliet when she actually thinks rationally, as opposed to her normal irrational behavior regarding her passion for Romeo. Despite all of these warnings and visions, however, she goes on with the plan anyway and both suffer the consequences.

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Love being a word that he uses for many unrelated things Romeo claims to love Tybalt with the brothery love of an in law (Which the same not lust related love must also go to Juliet). But he doesn't have this love and proves it by killing Tybalt, again directly contradicting himself.

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Juliet is having some doubts about this plan, which lead her to think of the possible harsh outcomes. Though immensely terrifying and forbidding visions come to her, in the end she simply drinks and goes on with the plan.

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In this passage he claims to love them and not to want to hurt them but then immediately contradicts himself when he attacks and kills Tybalt

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Romeo was banished from Verona for murdering Tybalt and Juliet was threatening to kill herself if Frier doesn't do anything about it. He gave her a potion that would make her sleep like death for 40 hours. At the time she was her normal irrational self and had no problem taking it, telling him that she would have no fear though he warned her.

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Romeo has just married Juliet and as such must respect his in laws.

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Act 4 Sc 3 15-60
Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins That almost freezes up the heat of life. I'll call them back again to comfort me.- Nurse!- What should she do here? My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?
She takes out her knife and puts it down beside her.
No, no this shall forbid it. Lie thou there. What if it be a poison which the Friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonoured Because he married me before to Romeo I fear it is yet methinks it should not, For he hath still been tried a holy man. How if, when I a laid in the tomb,I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me? There's a fearful point. Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breaths in, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? Or if I live, is it not very like The horrible conceit of death and night Together with the terror of the place- As in a vault, an ancient receptacle. Where for this many hundred year bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed; Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, Lied fest'ring in his shroud; where, as they say, At some hours in the night spirits resort- Alack, alack, is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad- O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environèd with all these hideous fears, And madly play with my forefathers joints, And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud, And, in this rage , with some great kinsman's bone, As with a club, dash ut my desp'rate brains? O look, methinks I see my cousins ghost Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body Upon a rapier's point! Stay, Tabalt, stay! Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink. I drink to thee.
She drinks and fall upon her bed within the curtains.

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Act 3 Sc1 69-73... 127-137
Romeo: 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... Alive in triumph, and Mercutio slain! Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire eyed fury be my conduct now.-  Now Tybalt, take the "villain" back again That late thou gavest me, for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.
Tybalt: Thou wretched boy that didst consort him here Shalt with him hence.
Romeo: This shall determine that.
They fight. Tybalt falls.

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He is like a child who lists all that could go wrong with climbing the shelf to get a cookie but says to his brother "Don't worry when I do it, it will be different." While this is true with Romeo's first round of infatuation, the second leads to some of the worst of those. Another point that can be made in this passage is that he says his love for Rosaline is forever and unfleeting, but later that very day, he swiftly turns his passion to Someone else.

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Romeo is stating that much of love is swift, backwards, unpredictable, and has much to do with hate. But then he says that none of what he feels is like that.

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Romeo has been overly depressed about the fact that he can't have Rosaline as his wife because she has sworn herself to chastity. He thinks himself to be in total love with her and uses that to justify isolating himself to crying over it.

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Act 1 Sc1 176-191
Romeo: Alas that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will! Where shall we dine?- O me! What fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well seeming forms, Feathers 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. Dost thou not laugh?
Benvolio: No, coz, I rather weep.
Romeo: Good heart, at what?
Benvolio: At thy good heart's oppression.

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Prompt:  To what extent does Shakespeare rely on his use of antithesis to deliver one of his main messages, and why is this important?

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There is an old saying that opposites attract--that for every yin there is a yang.  Yet, there also exists the popular notion that extreme feelings often lead to extreme endings.  Throughout Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare’s repeated use of antithesis helps foreshadow the idea that things will not work out well for the two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet.  This idea is significant because it teaches the audience that loving in moderation is often safer than being swept away by passion.