Posted by Shar on June 21, 2004, at 23:08:16
In reply to Name change me, posted by ISeekPeace on June 21, 2004, at 1:55:00
Maybe everything, maybe nothing..still..Somebody asked............
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."--From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
"Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet and fall in love in Shakespeare's lyrical tale of "star-cross'd" lovers. They are doomed from the start as members of two warring families. Here Juliet tells Romeo that **a name is an artificial and meaningless convention** [emphasis mine, Shar], and that she loves the person who is called "Montague", not the Montague name and not the Montague family. Romeo, out of his passion for Juliet, rejects his family name and vows, as Juliet asks, to "deny (his) father" and instead be "new baptized" as Juliet's lover. This one short line encapsulizes the central struggle and tragedy of the play."
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I couldn't have said it any better m'self. Tho' if we get to know each other under one, then change to another...we don't necessarily know each other anymore. N'est ce pas?
Shar
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