The whole speech is based on pagan Celtic mythology. Mercutio’s speech has tons sexual innuendo. The words “queen” and “Mab” refer to whores in Elizabethan England. As his speech goes on we notice the speech get increasingly sexual with Mab teaching Maidens how to have sex.
Romeo has just said that it might not be wise to go to the Capulet party because he had a dream that things would go badly for him if he did. Mercutio gives the speech to persuade Romeo that dreams are nothing but Queen Mab visiting one in one's sleep and they should not be taken seriously.
Mercutio starts to talk because of Benvolio ask who is Queen Mab
Also the whole speech is just to calm Romeo down. Mercutio is good friends with Romeo and because of this he feels bad that Romeo is worried about attending the Capulet's party. Since Romeo had a dream about the party Mercutio told him the story …show more content…
This means that she was just a women who was the one who helped give birth
In Mercutio's mind queen mab is a tiny fairy that rides in a coach made out of empty hazelnut and spider legs
Mab is a slang word for whore
“He says that she rides around in a wagon drawn by tiny little atoms. She is no bigger than a stone on a city councilman's ring.”
This is pretty much saying that he carriage is draw by skeleton
Here, Mercutio is describing a tiny scene. He's talking about a tiny wagon, and each image compares some part of it to some small thing. It's as if it was made out of parts that you might find laying about in the grass like an insect wing, a spider leg, a nut shell. Just to give you a bit of a leg up here, an "atomie" is a tiny thing (like an atom), and an "agate-stone on the forefinger" is a jewel on somebody's ring (to give you a sense of scale).m
The wagon is made out of an empty hazelnut
Its wheel spokes are made with spider legs
Its is pulled by an even tinier “grey-coated gnat”
It also has a little team of little atomi (tiny
Romeo has just said that it might not be wise to go to the Capulet party because he had a dream that things would go badly for him if he did. Mercutio gives the speech to persuade Romeo that dreams are nothing but Queen Mab visiting one in one's sleep and they should not be taken seriously.
Mercutio starts to talk because of Benvolio ask who is Queen Mab
Also the whole speech is just to calm Romeo down. Mercutio is good friends with Romeo and because of this he feels bad that Romeo is worried about attending the Capulet's party. Since Romeo had a dream about the party Mercutio told him the story …show more content…
This means that she was just a women who was the one who helped give birth
In Mercutio's mind queen mab is a tiny fairy that rides in a coach made out of empty hazelnut and spider legs
Mab is a slang word for whore
“He says that she rides around in a wagon drawn by tiny little atoms. She is no bigger than a stone on a city councilman's ring.”
This is pretty much saying that he carriage is draw by skeleton
Here, Mercutio is describing a tiny scene. He's talking about a tiny wagon, and each image compares some part of it to some small thing. It's as if it was made out of parts that you might find laying about in the grass like an insect wing, a spider leg, a nut shell. Just to give you a bit of a leg up here, an "atomie" is a tiny thing (like an atom), and an "agate-stone on the forefinger" is a jewel on somebody's ring (to give you a sense of scale).m
The wagon is made out of an empty hazelnut
Its wheel spokes are made with spider legs
Its is pulled by an even tinier “grey-coated gnat”
It also has a little team of little atomi (tiny