Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet suggests that dreams predict our fate. The Queen Mab speech from the first passage, scene IV from the play, reveals the truth about our dreams through Mercutio’s wit. Mercutio opens up his speech as an ironic response to Romeo’s claims that he’s in love with Rosaline. He turns all of Romeo’s words into sexual metaphors. Mercutio brings up the legend about Queen Mab during the mocking of Romeo’s statement - the bringer of dreams. The story about Queen Mab starts as a description of a fairy tale, in which the fairies’ midwife is the one going “athwart men's noses as they lie asleep”. She is the reason lovers dream of love, lawyers dream of making money, and soldiers dream of “cutting foreign throats”. The words
