Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet By Mercutio

In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio states that “dreams are the children of an idle brain” after talking to Romeo about Queen Mab and how she manipulates people’s dreams based on their lifestyle. I agree with the statement because a dream is an imagination you have when you are asleep for your own sensation and are usually not possible. Dreams are made up based on the subconsciousness of the human mind. For example, Mercutio states that “Begot of nothing but vain fantasy” (I.iv.99). Mercutio is basically saying that dreams are fantasies and are based on the desires of the human mind and that they do not occur in real-life. This shows that dreams are only in your head and are meant to entertain you during your sleep. Another example is when Mercutio explains,

For example, during Mercutio’s speech when he states, “Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love” (I.iv.71). Mercutio explains how Queen Mab goes through lover’s brains to put in dreams of love. This shows how the lovers always have the emotion of love and how they incorporate that into their dreams. Furthermore, the people make their dreams so that it is based off their life knowing that what happens in their dreams is not real but satisfies them in their sleep. Another example of this is when Mercutio takes a more negative approach to the speech, “Sometimes she drives o'er a soldier's neck, and then dreams he of cutting foreign throats” (I.iv.82-83). Just like the last example, Mercutio explains how Queen Mab goes through the soldier’s subconsciousness so that he dreams of being in battle and slaughtering the enemy and being a hero. The soldier’s military experience is incorporated into his dream so that he can satisfy himself knowing the negative sides of war can end his life. Additionally, this helps prove that people dream of things based on life knowing that in the real world, it can be negatively different from their