Romeo and his two relatives, Mercutio and Benvolio, are preparing to enter the Capulet House. It is a costume party, thankfully, so everyone is in costumes, giving them the chance to use masks to hide their true identities. Romeo, still distraught from the Rosaline incident, wonders how they will get into the Capulet's’ feast since they are Montagues. Romeo also displays the theme light vs dark when he then asks them for the torch. He says,‘“Give me a torch. I am not for this ambling. Being but heavy, I will bear the light.”’ (I.iiii.11-12). This is an example because the light of the torch shines light onto the darkness, but also onto Romeo. The darkness is his deep sorrow, and the torch brings to light, a comfort, and happiness. This is also an example of symbolism. …show more content…
Mercutio starts to mock Romeo, twisting all of Romeo’s statements about love into blatantly sexual metaphors. Romeo continues to whine about the unavailable Rosaline, and then he announces that he had a dream the night before. Before he can go into the details, Mercutio interrupts and goes into a lingering monolog about Queen Mab of the fairies, who visits people’s dreams. Queen Mab is the fairies’ midwife. She makes lovers dream of love when she goes over their sleeping heads at night. She makes courtiers dream of curtsying, lawyers dream of fees, ladies dream of kissing, priests dream of large donations, soldiers dream of cutting the throats of enemies. Queen Mab is also responsible for the tangling of horses’ manes as well. She is the one that teaches lovers how to make children. Mercutio becomes spell-struck by the story, and resentful, passion arises. Romeo steps in to stop the speech and try to get Mercutio to ease up. Mercutio admits that he has been talking of nothing, noting that dreams are but a simple fairy tale. They both conclude that dream are unable to predict the future and are simply