What if it be a poison which the friar Subtly hath ministered to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored Because he married me before to Romeo? I fear it is-and yet methinks it should not, For he hath still been tried a holy man.
What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow morning? No, no, this shall forbid it. Nurse!-What should she do here? My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins That almost freezes up the heat of life. Romeo, take off your name and in exchange for that whole name, which is not really a part of what you are, you can have all of me.Farewell. So Romeo would still have all the perfection that he has, even if he were not called Romeo. What is so special about a name? A rose, even if it were called something else, would smell just as sweet. What’s ‘Montague’? It isn’t hand or foot or arm or face or any other part belonging to a man. You are what you are, even though you may be a Montague. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Juliet knows that the blood feud prevents her from loving a Montague. So with Romeo he would still be the same beautiful young man even if he had a different name. If the rose had any other name it would still be the same.
She’s complaining that his name is meaningless. If he had any other name it would be fine. Juliet is not allowed to associate with Romeo because he is a Montague. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.