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Romeo and Juliet help? Need to analyze a few lines.?
Romeo and Juliet help? Need help to analyze a few lines.?
This is from Act 1 Scene 4. I have to write a brief summary on 4-8 lines of Mercutio’s dream. The is a modern english phase that has been translated out of Shakespearian provided below.
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ROMEO
In bed asleep while they do dream things true.
MERCUTIO
Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
BENVOLIO
Queen Mab, what’s she
MERCUTIO
55 She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Over men’s noses as they lie asleep.
60 Her wagon spokes made of long spinners’ legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
Her traces of the smallest spider’s web,
Her collars of the moonshine’s watery beams,
Her whip of cricket’s bone, the lash of film,
65 Her wagoner a small gray-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid.
Queen Mab is a popular mythological figure from Shakespeare’s time. She is credited with causing dreams that expose the darker secrets of each dreamer
smaller than the jewel on a ring
atomies are the dust particles we see in shafts of light, they act as horses for her carriage
She rides immediately above the dreamers face
her wagon wheel have spokes made of spider legs
The cover of her carriage is made of grasshopper wings
the reins are of thin Spider Web
The yokes are the moon light beams that illuminate the atomies
Her whip of cricket’s bone, the lash of spit or sparkles in the air caused by minute water particles.
Her driver is a very small gnat smaller than a tick.
