Shakespeare uses metaphors and similes to express Mercutio’s viewpoint on love and dreams, that love is a physical battle, and that dreams are small and insignificant.
Shakespeare uses similes to show Mercutio’s rough viewpoint on love through Mercutio’s conversation with Romeo. When Mercutio says, “ If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down” (1.4.27-28), he is portraying that love is a physical and mental battle. He is saying that love is rough and that love will “prick like a thorn” (1.4.26). By using the simile that love will prick like a thorn, it is explaining Mercutio’s viewpoint on love as a back-and-forth battle. Mercutio also uses similes to show his attitude on love that love is a burden through his conversation with Romeo. When Mercutio says, “and to sink in it should you burden love,” (1.4 27), he is explaining that love has a “heavy burden when you sink” (1.4.22). Sinking in love considered a burden in Mercutio’s eyes, and is portrayed through Mercutio’s conversation with Romeo.
Shakespeare shows Mercutio’s viewpoint on love through metaphors within his conversation with Romeo. When Mercutio says “Borrow Cupid’s …show more content…
When Mercutio says, “True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot nothing but vain fantasy” (1.4.103-105), he is using the metaphor of dreams as a child of the idle brain to show their insignificance and unimportance. By saying this, he is saying that dreams are nothing but an inactive though of the brain, that produce no real result. Shakespeare also shows Mercutio’s viewpoint on dreams through the earlier conversation with Romeo. When Mercutio says, “That dreamers often lie” (1.4.56), he is showing that people’s dreams often aren’t true and are insignificant. He is comparing people’s dreams to lie’s and that people’s dreams aren’t true or
Shakespeare uses similes to show Mercutio’s rough viewpoint on love through Mercutio’s conversation with Romeo. When Mercutio says, “ If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down” (1.4.27-28), he is portraying that love is a physical and mental battle. He is saying that love is rough and that love will “prick like a thorn” (1.4.26). By using the simile that love will prick like a thorn, it is explaining Mercutio’s viewpoint on love as a back-and-forth battle. Mercutio also uses similes to show his attitude on love that love is a burden through his conversation with Romeo. When Mercutio says, “and to sink in it should you burden love,” (1.4 27), he is explaining that love has a “heavy burden when you sink” (1.4.22). Sinking in love considered a burden in Mercutio’s eyes, and is portrayed through Mercutio’s conversation with Romeo.
Shakespeare shows Mercutio’s viewpoint on love through metaphors within his conversation with Romeo. When Mercutio says “Borrow Cupid’s …show more content…
When Mercutio says, “True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot nothing but vain fantasy” (1.4.103-105), he is using the metaphor of dreams as a child of the idle brain to show their insignificance and unimportance. By saying this, he is saying that dreams are nothing but an inactive though of the brain, that produce no real result. Shakespeare also shows Mercutio’s viewpoint on dreams through the earlier conversation with Romeo. When Mercutio says, “That dreamers often lie” (1.4.56), he is showing that people’s dreams often aren’t true and are insignificant. He is comparing people’s dreams to lie’s and that people’s dreams aren’t true or