Queen Mab speech in Romeo & Juliet | TOP GRADE ANALYSIS

One of the most intriguing passages in 'Romeo and Juliet' is Mercutio's so-called 'Queen Mab' speech, in which he teases the lovesick Romeo with a seemingly whimsical description of the folk fairy Queen Mab and her prankish antics on men and women. Why take love so seriously, he implies, when much of it is random, passing and characterised by emotional vagaries?
This speech may seem like a trivial, irrelevant moment at first read, but you'd be surprised by how a sophisticated interpretation of it could deepen and level up our understanding of the theme of love in this play. So make sure you watch till the end to get all the top grade ideas!
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[@annamanuelle2699]

As a bartolotrist myself, it's thrilling to see others make such well compiled analysis! Romeo and Juliet have been victims of intellectual snob that reduces its autorship to a saccharine romance, failing to acknowledge the comedic evasiveness carried within the first act. Despite Romeo's alienation from the male-male bonding that happens through the derogation to women, in his Petrarchan idealism, directs his self display by making of his Laura-Rosaline- an object. It should be noted that Romeo unlike Sampsom and Gregory prizes the women, the female sex, yet is that so as an object or as a person?
Through Drama, Shakespeare gives Laura a voice, and expression to female desire and sexuality that had been culturally the pivot of male anxiety, like that seen in Othello.
Romeo and Juliet isn't a dramatization of love, but that of passion, that "in {its} triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume." The stars, have fated them to death marked by that which parralels love-passion-, because to will otherwise, is to will a love that will be marked by its death.

[@MariamYebalih]

Thank you so much this video is a lifesaver I’m writing an essay about this speech

[@mollyhall2155]

Thank you so much, This is so helpful!!

[@JenChan]

My pleasure - glad this helped and thanks for watching 🥰

[@fornman]

I think it’s interesting that Romeo is about to tell Mercutio about his dream. Mercutio launches into the queen Mab speech.
Romeo tells him” you talk of nothing” and then Mercutio tells him that dreams are lies. Romeo then discounts the value of his dream, which was that the party is the beginning of the end of his life. Then they go to the party.

[@sampaton5460]

Sorry but it’s pronounced Queen Mab as in Cab she also Appears in Merlin folklore either as the Queen of the old ways (paganism) or Druid faith or else she is a fairy who speaks in riddles.

[@spicycactus6601]

sam we need less people like you in this world

[@sampaton5460]

@@spicycactus6601 why less I was only stating some information about Folk law🤷🏻‍♂️

[@spicycactus6601]

Sorry but it's PRONOUNCED folklore buster!

[@sadhbhkilcommons]

Tbf I think it’s just her accent rather than blatant mispronunciation