That all the world will be in love with night,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,Īnd he will make the face of heaven so fine “Give me my Romeo, and, when he shall die, Unlike Romeo and Juliet, who see their lives as driven largely by fate, Mercutio places the blame for his own death squarely on human causes. Mercutio’s final lines before his death place the blame on both the Montagues and the Capulets. They also provide another example of the play’s motif that things are not always what they appear at first glance – although Romeo’s name ought to identify him as an enemy of Juliet and the Capulets, Juliet sees that Romeo’s person is good, regardless of his name. In them, she realizes that the fact that Romeo is a Montague doesn’t change either his internal worth or her feelings for him. These also-famous lines sum up Juliet’s musings on Romeo’s name. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ Juliet’s line “wherefore art thou Romeo?” is one of the most misunderstood by speakers of modern English – here, “wherefore” means “why,” not “where.” As the lines that follow it make clear, Juliet’s question is why Romeo must be a Montague and thus an enemy of her own family – not where he’s gone.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, Juliet, for her part, is more circumspect. These lines, and the ones that follow them in this scene, paint a dramatic and vivid picture of the intense “love at first sight” Romeo experiences for Juliet. That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.” “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?Īrise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, The opening lines of Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech seem to be nonsense, but they reveal a deeper motif of the play: that what we believe is happening and what actually happens are not always the same, and that our ideals don’t always match our realities.
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes "O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. They give away the play’s ending but don’t explain how these events happen, thus creating the dramatic irony that drives the play. These lines, among the first in the play, are spoken by the Chorus. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foesĪ pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,ĭoth with their death bury their parents’ strife.” Act, Scene and line numbers are indicated. The following important quotes convey information about themes, symbols and motifs or the characters of the play.
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